Whats your shortest flight ?
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Did a very similar thing at the end of a bolthole once. We clocked it at 3.5 minutes but that got rounded up by the Nav to 5!
I think he was trying to get to 100 hours in his log book on the trip and actually needed 10 minutes but the P1 wanted to get to happy hour so landed straight in just to p##s him off!
Best of all we got rationed for it
Did a very similar thing at the end of a bolthole once. We clocked it at 3.5 minutes but that got rounded up by the Nav to 5!
I think he was trying to get to 100 hours in his log book on the trip and actually needed 10 minutes but the P1 wanted to get to happy hour so landed straight in just to p##s him off!
Best of all we got rationed for it
Night Solo on Tucano
Approx 3 mins 30, but logged the SOP 5 mins.
First night solo at Linton-on-Ouse in the autumn, so fog an ever present problem. Briefed for a 60 min sortie - airborne, transit to Fenton, circuits various (normal and flapless IIRC), small bit of upper air work (steepies etc), radar recovery to Linton followed by more circuits.
Disappointed to receive the weather recall as the gear came up, so dutifully turned downwind and landed!
Meant I got to the bar earlier though!
First night solo at Linton-on-Ouse in the autumn, so fog an ever present problem. Briefed for a 60 min sortie - airborne, transit to Fenton, circuits various (normal and flapless IIRC), small bit of upper air work (steepies etc), radar recovery to Linton followed by more circuits.
Disappointed to receive the weather recall as the gear came up, so dutifully turned downwind and landed!
Meant I got to the bar earlier though!
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Two 5 min (approx) trips on Helis, both involving ships. One on a Sea King from Stanley to the Rangi, when the seas were to rough for the landing craft, and a Wessex from the Keren to Wideawake, to catch the flight home.
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I appreciate 28 minutes isn't very "short" but considering this was a Russian Antonov AN124 with cargo loaded it is probably the shortest flight an AN124 has made in one hop for a cargo haul (Nimrod XV246 RAF Waddington to BAE Woodford dec 2007) - Mike
About 10 sec in a Puma, left the No2 throttle at idle! Must have looked good as we peaked at 50ft before coming back down to where we took off from. Not sure what all the UAS pax in the back thought!
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Shortest flight ever was about 3 seconds.
Just after rotate hit 3 Upland Geese - 1 in one engine and 2 in the other. Followed by a bit of a fire, a total loss of thrust and an overrun cable.
All in all about 3 seconds of airborne time in the Falklands...the engine cores looked like nibbled corn on the cob!
Brown G-pants all around, and that was before OC Air Wing nearly ran me over in a rush to get to the scene!
Next flight for that F3 was in an Antonov 124, alongside the Ttitanium fire jet. I did the intake inspection that sent it home!!!!!
Bring on the dancing Queen
Shortest flight ever was about 3 seconds.
Just after rotate hit 3 Upland Geese - 1 in one engine and 2 in the other. Followed by a bit of a fire, a total loss of thrust and an overrun cable.
All in all about 3 seconds of airborne time in the Falklands...the engine cores looked like nibbled corn on the cob!
Brown G-pants all around, and that was before OC Air Wing nearly ran me over in a rush to get to the scene!
Next flight for that F3 was in an Antonov 124, alongside the Ttitanium fire jet. I did the intake inspection that sent it home!!!!!
Bring on the dancing Queen
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8 mins Canberra T17 "L" on her last flight prior to being scrapped, Wyton to Marham. I seem to remember we broke every limit apart from altitude..... huge circuit after a run and break at about 480 Kts...... That's what happens when you send 2 Flying Officers on a simple little sortie.......
Around 92 I was on a 1(F) Sqn det stuck at Goose Bay with no AT to get us to Red Flag. The Sqn WO managed to 'hire' a 727 using the Sqn gold card (always thought it was funny to see a bill for many £ payed for by card on a plastic swipe machine at 30,000ft). The pilot asked our destination and was told Nellis to which as he landed as requested............. to be immediately surrounded by security wagons and nasty men waving guns at us. Eventually the stand-off was sorted and we took off again to land at Mc Carran, the 727 wheels hardly left the ground and we couldn't have been in the air for 5 mins!
nb, only time ever in 36yrs service that tea was served in a real porcelain teapot and cups/saucers.............. happy days.
nb, only time ever in 36yrs service that tea was served in a real porcelain teapot and cups/saucers.............. happy days.
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2 minutes of aborted underslung load of sophisticated "comms" aerial.
An over eager Signals Sergeant leaned out from the railings of the radio mast and grabbed the aerial.
He was desperately clinging on to his new toy connecting him to 3000 pounds of Sioux in a very dodgy hover a few feet above his head to a 300 foot metal tower !!
"Drop load - go left"
Buggers didn't talk to us for a month !!
An over eager Signals Sergeant leaned out from the railings of the radio mast and grabbed the aerial.
He was desperately clinging on to his new toy connecting him to 3000 pounds of Sioux in a very dodgy hover a few feet above his head to a 300 foot metal tower !!
"Drop load - go left"
Buggers didn't talk to us for a month !!
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Used to work with a guy who claimed to have done the whole ACT phase on the Lightning OCU in less than 1 hr. Did 5 trips in a Tonka in one day at Deci myself.
Canaveral to Patrick AFB
Herc XV209 March 84 - bit less than 3 mins.
Fun 4-week detachment ferrying torpedoes and associated boffins daily between Patrick, Andros and Canaveral. Flew in t-shirt & shorts most days, IIRC. Happy days..RIP Bob.
Fun 4-week detachment ferrying torpedoes and associated boffins daily between Patrick, Andros and Canaveral. Flew in t-shirt & shorts most days, IIRC. Happy days..RIP Bob.