Whats your shortest flight ?
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Barkston to Cranditz
Calm evening - JP5a Barkston to Cranwell just under 3 minutes - but had to put 5min in the 700 and auth sheets!
Viper at full throttle just about the entire trip, poor little noisy thing.
Viper at full throttle just about the entire trip, poor little noisy thing.
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A few short flights in my logbook - first solo (Bulldog) was 5 mins (rounded), Elvington to Church Fenton (Tucano) also 5 mins, Brize to Lyneham (C130) in 8 mins (rounded to 10).
Not the shortest flight, but did a circuit at Newton in about 60 seconds in a Bulldog, inside the length of the runway & about 300 ft downwind.
Not the shortest flight, but did a circuit at Newton in about 60 seconds in a Bulldog, inside the length of the runway & about 300 ft downwind.
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Approx 10 secs in a Hawk at Brawdy.
Just lifted off, big bang as Buzzard goes down the intake, engine quits (from ATC the flame/rubbish out of the back end was longer than the fuselage), hit the deck and with 4 heavy feet on the brakes we even avoided to barrier.
Just lifted off, big bang as Buzzard goes down the intake, engine quits (from ATC the flame/rubbish out of the back end was longer than the fuselage), hit the deck and with 4 heavy feet on the brakes we even avoided to barrier.
Wildenrath - Bruggen = 2mins
Bruggen was on bolthole(ish) and the St Athan delivery crews weren't allowed to use the southern taxiway; only Bruggen based crews were. We had to pick up the clean jets from Wildenrath and bring them home. Only 2500kgs in the jet and it leapt off the ground.
Bruggen was on bolthole(ish) and the St Athan delivery crews weren't allowed to use the southern taxiway; only Bruggen based crews were. We had to pick up the clean jets from Wildenrath and bring them home. Only 2500kgs in the jet and it leapt off the ground.
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Can’t claim it was me, but was sitting in the cockpit of a VC10 on the TASAF pan at Akrotiri in (about 1967), when two Canberra B(I)8s came hurtling down the runway (Squadron Boss as No 2). Just as they took off, No 2 moved into the efflux of No 1. He got about 20 feet into the air, wobbled and came down again. Skated across the bondu removing a few landing lights and slid to a stop a couple of hundred yards from the threshold, removing the main undercarriage. Both occupants exited the aircraft in a cloud of dust and stood staring at the mess. Total time airborne, about 10 seconds!
I was later told to go out and put the undercarriage locks in, so I did. Both legs about 100 yards from the wreck!!
I was later told to go out and put the undercarriage locks in, so I did. Both legs about 100 yards from the wreck!!
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A Sea King sortie from HMS Invinvible: Lifted into the hover; Tail Trans Chip caption illuminated; landed on. Total about 3 seconds but the minimum of 5 minutes went in the logbook!
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Shortest flight
Had to deliver a PR9 from Halfar, which we had been using while the Luqa runway was resurfaced, back to Luqa. Both were using the northerly runways so it was wheels off at Halfar to be on short finals for Luqa. About 20 seconds in the air.
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In 1968 we bolthold from Waddo to Coningsby; take-off on 21 and land on 08. The aim was to do it under 2 min 30 seconds to log the flight with zero flight time.
Our rules were to the nearest 5 minutes. Sounds like your rules were to the nearest 5 minutes above - hours hogs
.How about the quietest time 'airborne'?
We took a Shack to Biteswell with John Elias as captain. We landed, shut down, and had lunch a la fresco on the grass outside the hangars. I guess we were shut down for 30 minutes or more but JE, building up his hours, said it was all one flight and duly claimed the time first take-off to final landing.
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Well, never thought I'd see the words "Quietest" and "Shack" in the same post.
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MH, may be because I was deaf (thank you for the pension payout) but I think I could remember birds chirping and butterfly wings fluttering.
We had another short trip in the Shack again - 40 minutes to land from a Pan which went something like this:
Handover from London to Wittering:
"What is the nature of your emergency?"
"Suspect engine fire, No 1 engine shut down, request immediate landing"
"Roger steer xxx descend to xxxx. Do you have uniforms?"
"Er no, just flying suits."
"Well you will not be allowed in the messes and will have to stay down town."
"*!!!, what?"
After due consideration of the sqn T&S budgets our Fg Off Captain opted for Cottesmore.
Safely on the ground we were told we could only use the scruffs bar in the mess. However we soon noticed that the Brits were in Jackets and ties, the Italians in open neck shirts and sweaters, and the Germans splendid in their orange flying suits. We joined the Germans.
Who said the RAF is nonsense now?
We had another short trip in the Shack again - 40 minutes to land from a Pan which went something like this:
Handover from London to Wittering:
"What is the nature of your emergency?"
"Suspect engine fire, No 1 engine shut down, request immediate landing"
"Roger steer xxx descend to xxxx. Do you have uniforms?"
"Er no, just flying suits."
"Well you will not be allowed in the messes and will have to stay down town."
"*!!!, what?"
After due consideration of the sqn T&S budgets our Fg Off Captain opted for Cottesmore.
Safely on the ground we were told we could only use the scruffs bar in the mess. However we soon noticed that the Brits were in Jackets and ties, the Italians in open neck shirts and sweaters, and the Germans splendid in their orange flying suits. We joined the Germans.
Who said the RAF is nonsense now?
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So plenty of sub 2 min 30 sec flights. What was the consenus, log 5 minutes or zero minutes?
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If you had a flight, it had to go in the F700, Auth Sheets and Log Book. Therefore, if it flew, it flew a minimum of 5 minutes; you cannot have a flight in any of these documents that lasted zero minutes!
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Mick, sorry, but you are the only one to declare less than 2.5 minutes as 5 minutes. I would still like to hear from light blue and others.
Does any flight HAVE to be recorded with at least 5 minutes flight time?
Does any flight HAVE to be recorded with at least 5 minutes flight time?
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Jenks, I'm aware that mine was not the fastest but can't remember who held it nor the time - can you?
These days I have to settle for BHD-LTN as the challenge - 41mins thus far as measured by the 'bus so no cheating. Can you remember the BFS-NHT record? I think set by Uncle M way back.
Sorry for the thread creep.
mcdhu
These days I have to settle for BHD-LTN as the challenge - 41mins thus far as measured by the 'bus so no cheating. Can you remember the BFS-NHT record? I think set by Uncle M way back.
Sorry for the thread creep.
mcdhu