Whats your longest flight ?
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As a pax, Albert 1989 - ASI - MPA (well, just short of) - Montevideo. 15+hrs and a brew. Worst bit was having to go back to ASI before trying all over again. 
Also as a pax - Albert 2000 - Cairo West - Akrotiri - Souda Bay - Lyneham. OK, lots of legs but the best part of 36 hours stuck in the back of an aircraft sharing with a ship's engine.
Also as a pax - Albert 2000 - Cairo West - Akrotiri - Souda Bay - Lyneham. OK, lots of legs but the best part of 36 hours stuck in the back of an aircraft sharing with a ship's engine.
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"Still waiting for someone to reclaim it? "
I think most people don't notice it, by the time they get off the plane and then to the baggage claim area, all they want to do is get their bags and get out of there !
I think most people don't notice it, by the time they get off the plane and then to the baggage claim area, all they want to do is get their bags and get out of there !
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As a pax; AAS to Bahrain, landed mid pm, nosewheel went wobble, spent all night sleeping on the pan waiting for spanners to be weilded. Took off early next morning to LCRA, hour in terminal whilst crew changes, out of holiday island by 30 mins when the nav kit comes out in sympathy with the nosewheel and the fuel pressurisation(?) also goes tech. Back to LCRA, no fix, night in Mess (got utterly s**tfaced, first beers for months ....) Next morning dragged hangover onto now fixed cab to go home, via ..... Incerlik! Landed late morning, waited for new crew to arrive late afternoon, car bomb went off in town as we were boarding and we were struck by lightning on the way home. Frankly, I'd have got out and pushed. Oh well, if you can't take a joke .....
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Bucc Akr - Nice 3.40 unrefueled (2 wing tanks)
Rosevelt Roads - Lajes 6.20 (3 prods)
744 Lax - Hkg 15.55 (regularly over 15)
744 is a tad more comfortable than the Bucc but not as much fun
Rosevelt Roads - Lajes 6.20 (3 prods)
744 Lax - Hkg 15.55 (regularly over 15)
744 is a tad more comfortable than the Bucc but not as much fun
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17.3 hrs. Nas Norfolk direct Montijo,Lisbon,Portugal.US Navy C118B 131608,c/n 43711 full load of pax-80 seats-max.1967 out of Nas Dallas,Tx.I was 1st FE and believe me fuel was critical and powered down to 650 bhp,hanging on the prop tips.
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Herkman - C130E 1968
I was Adj on the Air Transportable Telecommunications Flight (ATTU) - mobile Air Traffic in other words - at Richmond when the Es first arrived there. The base was humming with delight and everybody wanted a 'go' - yes, I did manage it. Flew to Townsville for Christmas - hot and very wet, both inside and out! My other 'hat' was RAAF Liaison Officer with the US Embassy helping to organise R'n'R for troops arriving on various bits of transport from Vietnam. By 1968 I was back home in Edinburgh, Scotland
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How about 20 hours exactly in a Nimrod on the 6/7th May 1982 with a Kinloss crew just going round the UK. This was the final test sortie in the Nimrod AAR conversion. My log book tells me I did 2 contacts, one of 72,000lbs and a second one of 28,000. It took months to get the smell out of my grow bag! Happy days.
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F3 Refuelled in 1990. 10.15 Leeming to Dhahran followed 12hrs later by 10.45 back the other way. Lost number 2 into Cambrai and diverted to Leuchars due fog. 4 guys so tired they ended up tucked up in their curries in the Balaka after a half pint and a popadom. Talk about a pain in the arse!
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C130. Can't give exact dates and time (lost log) but seem to remember 14+ hours from some little island in the Caribbean back to Lyneham. Watched the sun go down and then come up again. Also have a Kai-Tak - Gan of 11.10, having to stay over the sea, some fracas over the land.
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C130. Can't give exact dates and time (lost log) but seem to remember 14+ hours from some little island in the Caribbean back to Lyneham. Watched the sun go down and then come up again. Also have a Kai-Tak - Gan of 11.10, having to stay over the sea, some fracas over the land.
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Not quite in the same league
Probably about to get shot down in flames, but here goes anyway...
Mine was a solo soaring trip out of Portmoak many moons ago as a wee space cadet. 2:45 of pure, unadulterated freedom and joy, munching wine gums as I tracked the ridge up to the Vulcan Gap and back.
Everthing else over three hrs has been as walking cargo on albert!
Mine was a solo soaring trip out of Portmoak many moons ago as a wee space cadet. 2:45 of pure, unadulterated freedom and joy, munching wine gums as I tracked the ridge up to the Vulcan Gap and back.
Everthing else over three hrs has been as walking cargo on albert!
