Nearly 73 years ago, a Fokker Trimotor called Southern Cross became the first airplane to cross the Pacific, flying from the United States to Australia. Sunday, a Northrop Grumman RQ-4A Global Hawk named Southern Cross II landed in Australia after a nonstop hop of its own across the Pacific.
Airliners do it every day.
For one thing, the Global Hawk is an Air Force spy plane. For another, it's unmanned. On top of that, it flew the whole distance on autopilot. Its performance was monitored, but it was on its own. The original Southern Cross was a Fokker F.VIIb-3m Trimotor.