How do you do define it ? Shortest flight in the RN was from the catapult into the sea.

I'm guessing some pianos must hold that record then.

Like this.


http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...oCatapault.jpg

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 .

Nice one Toast :).

Sorry, that is not a GRAND piano launch, it is an upright piano launch!

OAP

OAP, you beat me to it.

Do bounces count???

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.

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.

As per Biggus' post #6 in this thread http://www.pprune.org/8827648-post6.html Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager clocked 216 hours 3 minutes 33 seconds from 14 December 1986 to 23 December 1986.

I reckon

64 Days 22 hours 19 minutes and 5 seconds

beats

216 hours 3 minutes 33 seconds

OK - the way you posted it the numbers blurred together, and it looked like 64 hours.

My mistake.

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.

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.

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.

Ah!! The piano liberated from the RAF officers mess Honigton...By 809 squadron;)

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!"

Saw a Stearman once in Florida, instructor fast taxying, lift off for 1-2 secs to 3-4 ft, then flop down again ! :D

... and, relatively recently, there was a Victor ...... :uhoh:

My little "Record of Service, Form B/Cadets/2", on 18 Aug 61 at No 1 Gliding Centre, RAF Hawkinge, reads:
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?