Fastest:
Also the Falklands west to east, and 212 kts like the Canadian 76 story. This was in a Chinook.
Slowest:
Close run between 2 Chinook underslung-load trips:
- the trip preceding the above-mentioned fastest was a sortie carrying a load limited to 40kts IAS. Six hours and 2 refuels to move from a certain quarry to a certain hilltop.
- the recovery of a Bristows S61 from N of Ullapool to Aberdeen in 1998. As it had been stripped of everything it was as light as a feather, and refused to go above approx 20kts without trying to join us in the Chinook cockpit. Again, 2 refuels, plus a 17-minute, 11nm (downwind...) diversion to Lossie with a Chip Caption. We arrived at Dyce after 4h30m flying - the Bristows chief engineer had driven back by Mondeo and beaten us by well over an hour.