Longest/Shortest flight
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Dom, not wishing to get into a weeing contest we went direct tower to tower and as McCarran was relatively quiet were cleared straight in to land hence the 2 min flight. Not a tall story at all as the rest of the crew would testify to .
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You couldn't skim a piano from the height of a carrier deck, angle is all wrong.
Mind you a grand piano if you launched it upside down has a good flat top surface so maybe. It's a shame John Cage is dead, he would have probably written a symphony around it.
Mind you a grand piano if you launched it upside down has a good flat top surface so maybe. It's a shame John Cage is dead, he would have probably written a symphony around it.
On 13 May 1975 flew in Nimord MR1's XV248, XV251 and XV226 Lossiemouth to Kinloss. All flights logged as 5 minutes but were much shorter. Not being of the double winged master race I only logged what was in F700. Spent more time in the bus going from Kinloss to Lossie than in aircraft.
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Originally Posted by Kitbag
For longest flight you'd have to go some way to beat the record held by Robert Timm and John Cook in a C172 - 64:22:19:05 really!
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Brawdy, Hawk XX312, 1988. My first convex on a refresher, immediately after lift off a buzzard took out the engine, we slammed it back down and managed to stop before the barrier. ATC reckoned the fireball out the back end was longer than the aircraft. We logged 5 mins but best guess was 10 secs, height approx 10ft.
We thought the only reason the gear wasn't travelling by that stage was as it was my first ever trip in the Hawk I was groping for the gear button rather then press it instinctively, otherwise M-B letdown.
We thought the only reason the gear wasn't travelling by that stage was as it was my first ever trip in the Hawk I was groping for the gear button rather then press it instinctively, otherwise M-B letdown.
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Not a claim as I was not even born:
My dad tells a tale of a Hastings flying from one of the airfields in Habbaniyah at the top of a hill to another at the bottom of the hill for an engine change back in the 50s. He worked on Mosquitos and Beaufighters.
I have had a look on Google earth and my maps from GW1 era and can only find one airfield to the south of the town.
Anyone shed any light on this.
My dad tells a tale of a Hastings flying from one of the airfields in Habbaniyah at the top of a hill to another at the bottom of the hill for an engine change back in the 50s. He worked on Mosquitos and Beaufighters.
I have had a look on Google earth and my maps from GW1 era and can only find one airfield to the south of the town.
Anyone shed any light on this.
An interesting longest/shortest.
I knew a guy who'd flown all sorts of weird stuff, including Air America. At one point, he was the personal pilot to the King of Nepal. They had an engine failure at about 500 feet, then landed ten minutes later; owing to the runway being on top of a mountain, and his dead-sticking it onto a field at the bottom of the Himalayan valley.
I knew a guy who'd flown all sorts of weird stuff, including Air America. At one point, he was the personal pilot to the King of Nepal. They had an engine failure at about 500 feet, then landed ten minutes later; owing to the runway being on top of a mountain, and his dead-sticking it onto a field at the bottom of the Himalayan valley.
Shortest flight, 4 mins in a T Mk3 glider. best GCA - Canberra into St Mawgan when the whole country out in fog, white card break off 860 ft ISTR, saw lights at 125 ft. Boss - "consider yourself bollocked. Have a beer!"
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My little "Record of Service, Form B/Cadets/2", on 18 Aug 61 at No 1 Gliding Centre, RAF Hawkinge, reads:
Solo - L & RH Circuits - Flying time .07 - Launches 3.
I do clearly recall that it was a quite breezy day, and that a Slingsby Cadet TX Mark 3 (**251) went quite fast downwind. Does 3 circuits in 7 minutes count here?