Whats your shortest flight ?

[tarbaby]

Can't give exact date and time due to log book missing, believed still lost in CAA dungeons, however someone is bound to know: 1981, C130, Gander-Lyneham in under 4 hours. Ground speed over 500kts most of the way. A short route check. Great fun watching 747s below at FL180 trying to get out of the wind.

[Beancountercymru]

Another attempt from Cardiff to St Athan

Hawker Hunter F.58A G-PSST ..departed at 12:16 to St.Athan as "Flapjack 01"

Landing at 12:18 from Cardiff is "Flapjack 01" Hunter F.58A G-PSST


Source http://cardiffstathan.********.co.uk...-06062012.html

And a good picture of the engine start as well

[ksimboy]

2 mins 30 secs Nellis to Macarran in Albert. Best part was that flight was over midnight and earned the brave crew 33 hours off as it was the 6th day . What a wonderful rule that was

[lurkposition]

bast0n - just seen yours. My quietest flight - Dusk, SMG, 900' SK3 double overspeed trip! Nice big runway for FL though!

[Floppy Link]

Just over 10 seconds - Ballykinler to Ballykinler - film crew needed a shot of the Wessex lifting for a trooping drills video, most of the other footage was static or internal with some air to air, flown by my Flt Cdr, but he must have trusted me not to crash it...thanks Glenn!


Edit: I think I got to log 5 minutes for that, need to check...

[Roland Pulfrew]

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!

Does any flight HAVE to be recorded with at least 5 minutes flight time?

My understanding has always been that flight times should be rounded to the nearest 5 minutes, therefore flight time of 0 - 2 mins 29 secs should be rounded down to 0 minutes. As long as auth sheets, F700 and log book tally not sure what the problem is.

My best effort was in very light weight Nimrod. PABTO from Lossie 23 to Land Kinloss 26 (in those days) where we were definitely trying for under 2' 29". Didn't crack it though (but only just) so 5 minutes is in the log book.

[SASless]

Sikorsky S-58T Revenue flight....Aberdeen....Aberdeen Harbor...and return. Cheated...doubled the flight time.... 0.2 round trip.

[Stuff]

Less than 2 minutes in a Tucano.

Lifted from Linton to find the cockpit filled with an overpowering smell of Tippex. Toggled down and 100% oxy made the smell far, far worse and started to feel quite light headed. Emergency oxy pulled and landing made. Subsequent investigation found that the main oxy bottle had been washed with 1-1-1 Trichloroeathane and it hadn't been properly rinsed out afterwards. The Doc then grounded us for 48 hours which gave a nice long weekend

[canard68]

Citation HOSM to Brough gear up gear down land.

[sharpend]

Can anyone beat this for the shortest flight from an overseas RN airfield to an overseas RAF airfield?: Halfar to Luqa, 10 seconds, in a Canberra B15 in 1968. It's just one runway now, but then a road separated the two.

I claim 5 minutes... always was an hours hog

[ex-fast-jets]

How about.........................

Harrier field deployment in Germany, April 1974...............

1-4 Apr, 23 tasked sorties, total time 8hrs 30 mins.

Max permitted at the time was 6 sorties per day.

So I missed out on one!!

Anyone beat 23 sorties in 4 days with less total time??

[jindabyne]

Ask Bob Prothero

[Sven Sixtoo]

Numerous trips of 10 seconds or less in Sea Kings coming out of maintenance.

If all 3 wheels left the ground, it went in the logbook. Minimum entry 5 minutes.

Also one very naughty trip Navy Point spot 1 to spot 2. One thing was missing so it never got logged anywhere.

Iain

[Prangster]

Kirkby Cadet Mk 3's

'Tis but a rumour that they flew. Besides it aint got no engin. Hang on...don't let the bean counters know or they'll have them in the front line as an eco friendly pursuit ship

[WE992]

I think the Slingsby Grasshopper used by many CCF units at public schools would be them all. Normally launched by bungee the normal flight time was lucky to be as long as 20 seconds.

[fincastle84]

Another Lossie - Kinloss

I was sitting in the routine nav seat on a crew trainer out of Kinloss & the pilots were filling the last hour with approaches & circuits. The fog rolled in rather quickly & embarrassingly Kinloss went out & we had to divert to Lossie.

We picked up the aircraft the next day with a 5 minute return to Kinloss. RIP.

[5aday]

Newcastle RW25 Engine failure at about 1500 ft in a single.
Very strong headwind so I declared, turned downwind left
and back on to RW25. About five or six minutes in the air and then closed
the runway for about 30 minutes. Made myself a bit unpopular
with a couple of inbound flights.

[Pontius]

Just to keep Mick Strigg happy; several 20 second press-ups in the puff jet. Individual flights 20 seconds, combined total of 10 minutes (or whatever) for the F700

How about an engine failure in a Bulldog just after wheels off and a landing straight ahead? That must be up there with the 3 seconder

Shortest non-GA civvy flight, GLA-EDI in a 757, easterly-easterly runways, CATIIIB at EDI and a total flight time of 7 minutes.

[brit bus driver]

3 min 30 (rounded to 5) in a Tri* - Brize-Fairford positioning for RIAT.

[KG86]

0 mins.....

I was tasked to conduct an air test on a Wessex at RAF Odiham in the late 70s. Before I was due to lift, I had to conduct a Blade Track. This involved the engineers erecting a vertical pole, with tripod legs and steady wires, just outside the rotor disc, and then slowly rotating a canvas flag into the rotor tips. The tips had coloured chalk on the ends, so the flag would be marked with the tip paths (eg red blade up 1 inch, yellow down 2 etc).

Ac starts normally, all functionals completed, and I signal to the engineers to move the mast into position. The three of them push the heavy mast towards disk, to line up the tripod feet with chalk marks on the ground. Unfortunately, they hadn't noticed a step in the join between adjacent concrete slabs. One foot snags on that and, as the engineers keep pushing, the top tips over towards the rotor disc, and one of the steady wires contacts the tips.

Sudden twang, ac now vibrates, and emits a loud whistling noise as the four rotor tips are ripped off!

So I shut down, trudged back to the line office, to sign the ac in, and complete an incident report.

A wire strike, having never left my parking space, with zero flight time.