World's shortest scheduled flight
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World's shortest scheduled flight
Found on Youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pBXj...related&search=
This is one of Loganair's island hopper BN Islanders in the Orkney Islands, aka 'the tractor'. Turn up your volume to 'deafening' for the ultimate realism! The hard runways are a recent innovation!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pBXj...related&search=
This is one of Loganair's island hopper BN Islanders in the Orkney Islands, aka 'the tractor'. Turn up your volume to 'deafening' for the ultimate realism! The hard runways are a recent innovation!
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Correct S R Twotter,
EGEW to EGEP, Orkney Islands, North Scotland, approx 59N 3W.
Some more info here:
http://www.alanmoar.flyer.co.uk/orkn...t/shortest.htm
EGEP from FL370:
http://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/i...number1489.asp
EGEW to EGEP, Orkney Islands, North Scotland, approx 59N 3W.
Some more info here:
http://www.alanmoar.flyer.co.uk/orkn...t/shortest.htm
EGEP from FL370:
http://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/i...number1489.asp
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http://www.alanmoar.flyer.co.uk/orkney/Orkney2/007.htm
they have the cutest names oop the far north.
they have the cutest names oop the far north.
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Oooo........me log books are in the UK
I guess that my shortest time on a 'proper' flight (scheduled and Perf A) was between Jersey and Guernsey. Wonder if I beat 8mins. HP7 F27 and ATR
Used to go into Alderney in a Heron....erm, twas 45 years ago, cant remember how long it took.
I flew round Fairisle etc with the stalwart Allan. must have been going to pick up a DC3 or sumink. Seems impossible to think that he has retired. He would suddenly make a turn at some point when you could only see grey grey water. I asked how he new when to turn. "There's an eddy coming off......" (some little spit or another), he knew the shape of the water!
I guess that my shortest time on a 'proper' flight (scheduled and Perf A) was between Jersey and Guernsey. Wonder if I beat 8mins. HP7 F27 and ATR
Used to go into Alderney in a Heron....erm, twas 45 years ago, cant remember how long it took.
I flew round Fairisle etc with the stalwart Allan. must have been going to pick up a DC3 or sumink. Seems impossible to think that he has retired. He would suddenly make a turn at some point when you could only see grey grey water. I asked how he new when to turn. "There's an eddy coming off......" (some little spit or another), he knew the shape of the water!
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Think LoganAir used to hold the record on a beneficially windy day of 53 seconds, somewhere up in the islands of NW Scotland. And this, in an Islander!
Memory dims so don't count on this as Gospel.
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I may be mistaken and at my age it is entirely possible, however, was not the airplane used for years for the Orkney Islands run a Ford Tri Motor?
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Personal shortest flight was about 1 minute. Takeoff runway 30 at Hobart and landed runway 24 at Cambridge.
Could have been shorter if Hobart Tower would have let you use runway 27 at Cambridge but it would have meant flying past their tower at an uncomfortably close distance.
For those now wondering, it was in Tasmania Australia and many years ago when they would let you have some fun.
Could have been shorter if Hobart Tower would have let you use runway 27 at Cambridge but it would have meant flying past their tower at an uncomfortably close distance.
For those now wondering, it was in Tasmania Australia and many years ago when they would let you have some fun.
Old Fort Bay (YFT) to St. Paul's River (YSP), 7 statute miles with an Otter on floats. Or skis, depending on the season. Took about 4 minutes. 
Connie that Tri-motor sched wasn't Port Clinton OH to some island in Lake Erie up near Sandusky, was it? They ran that with a Tri-motor well into the 1970's I believe.
Connie that Tri-motor sched wasn't Port Clinton OH to some island in Lake Erie up near Sandusky, was it? They ran that with a Tri-motor well into the 1970's I believe.
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Very short international flights are between Sint Maarten SXM and Saint Barths SBH and between SXM and Anguilla AXA. They are about 15 minutes. Operated by Twotter or Islander or .....
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I am informed by No.1 son that he was in the jump seat of a SWISSAIR MD-11 from Brazzaville to Kinshasa, when the block time was recorded at 9 minutes. The Capt. claimed a record for this, which required getting the right runway out of Brazzaville and lobbing directly into Kinshasa. Runway headings are within 10 deg of each other and the crow flies 14 nms.
I enjoyed the original posting of the LoganAir flight, however it brought back to me the reason I live just a couple of degrees above the Equator, the cold seemed to radiate from that Islander cockpit, and onto my lap(top)
I enjoyed the original posting of the LoganAir flight, however it brought back to me the reason I live just a couple of degrees above the Equator, the cold seemed to radiate from that Islander cockpit, and onto my lap(top)