World's Shortest Flight?

[atpcliff]

Hi!

I just flew a flight (IFR flight plan AND an international flight), from one airport to another, that took only 5". The block time was only 15".

Anyone fly anything similar?

Cliff
GRB

 

[banned username 2]

Flew from KORD to KPWK in 2:12 in a Lear 35a... Took off of Rwy 36 at ORD (Yes 36, back when it was open) and landed 34 at PWK.. didn't even retract the gear...

 

[Flywrite]

Back when I flew Jetstreams we had a flight from Hickory, NC to Charlotte. It's a shade under 40 nautical and was scheduled for 30 mins. If everything worked out just right (no traffic, CLT landing to the south, good airplane) we could do it in under 15 minutes takeoff to touchdown. I think my record was 12 minutes. It was fun to keep the J32 at 250 until about four out then go to flight idle and configure on speed to make the first turnoff on the ground (OK...maybe the second turnoff). Anyway it sure was fun, unless you were the new FO scrambling to get the the non-flying stuff done.

I think the record for the shortest scheduled pax flight is somewhere in the Shetland Islands in northern Scotland. I think it was an BN Islander flight taking off from one island runway then landing on the beach of an island about 2 miles away. I'm sure the passengers still b*tch about the lack of meal service though

 

[bart]

We are based at LZU (Lawrenceville, GA) and pick the boss up at PDK (Peachtree-Dekalb in Atlanta). We do the leg twice a week at least when we don't run our helicopter and it is 5 minutes in the Falcon if we get straight in.

 

[328dude]

Left Akron Canton for a flight to Pittsburgh. A nice tailwind and landing on the 10's at PIT produced a 14 minute flight.

 

[jergar999]

Less than a minute. Positioning an air ambulance King Air from KRAP (Rapid City, SD) to KRCA (Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD) (4nm) for a static display at an airshow. Took off from runway 32, freq change, cleared to land runway 31. Also, finally got to hear a tower tell me to make sure my wheels were down.

 

[skyking1976]

At one time Air Wisconsin had marketed the shortest distance and duration flight in airline history. Appleton (KATW) to Oshkosh (KOSH). 12 minutes block time, 15 miles. Equipment was a BAe146 and it continued to ORD after stopping in OSH.

 

[FlyingSig]

At CoEx we used to do IAH-HOU. If you took off runway 4 at HOU and landed 33R at IAH, it was 7 minutes wheels up to wheels down. The 1900 used to have pairings that had 9 leg Hobby turns with a Hobby overnight......

IAH-EFD was a 10 minute flight in the ATR and CLE-ACK was pretty quick too....

 

[mckpickle]

At CoEx we used to do IAH-HOU. If you took off runway 4 at HOU and landed 33R at IAH, it was 7 minutes wheels up to wheels down. The 1900 used to have pairings that had 9 leg Hobby turns with a Hobby overnight......

IAH-EFD was a 10 minute flight in the ATR and CLE-ACK was pretty quick too....

Ack??? you mean akron?(sp?)

we also used to do ACK-MVY in the ATR. That was about 8-10 minutes vfr at 1000 ft. AHHHHHH the good old days.

Any idea how long it takes for the IAH EFD in the RJ?

 

[FlyingSig]

Any idea how long it takes for the IAH EFD in the RJ?

Are they doing that? I imagine the same at the ATR as you wouldn't get high enough to make up any speed differance .... I thought it was pretty funny when the Beech got replaced by a 737 on the Hobby turns (the flight went IAH-HOU-EWR)

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

Short legs

STX to STT (The ping pong route)

Did it in 12 minutes in an SD3-60. Climb @ 160 KIAS to 4000', pull back the props and start descent at VMO 205 KIAS, level off at 1000' in the right base to RWY 10, chop power, configure, grease the Touch Down Zone, goe get some goat-water soup, serves 33 PAX.

DCA to BWI in the DHC-8

11 minutes

T/O RWY 36 (1)

Land RWY 10 BWI

 

[Typhoon1244]

ASA used to do a Dallas-Amarillo-Lubbock-Dallas run in the Brasilia...that AMA-LBB leg was pretty short, 15 minutes as I recall.

At one time, Eastern had a revenue positioning flight between Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. DC-9's. Don't know what the flying time was, but it couldn't have been very much.

A gal in my flying club back home tried to launch in a '150 with forty degree flaps. She almost made it a hundred yards before the thing came down in the river. She's okay, not a scartch or bruise on her. Pretty short flight, though...

 

[Flightjock30]

Alaska Airlines used to (maybe it still does?) operate a flight between SFO across the bay to OAK in an MD83. That scheduled commercial airline flight made it to the Guiness Book of World Records.

 

[LAZYB]

Naknek to South Naknek, just the other side of the river. Pt.135 "school bus" run in Bristol Bay, Alaska. No more than a couple miles at the most.

 

[LearLove]

Jeff you beat me too it DCA - BWI was fun. We used to to it as an out and back from ABE it was ABE-DCA-BWI-PHL-ABE. Used to takeoff of 4 (or 3 back then I think) and land 4 in BWI turn off at the end and taxi 15 feet to gate 41/42. Started in ABE at 7am and home by 12 or so. Easy day.

Also ferried a dash8 from EWR to LGA. Ransome used to do PNE to PHL in a dash7. My shortest was in my C-150 from cumberland maryland to mexico farms. 2 uncontrolled strips seperated by a farm fence. one is 5000+ feet hard surface the other is 2100 turf. I tookoff 23 and landed 16 just hopped the fence and slight turn/skid left and touch down. about 25-30 seconds in the air.

Hey jergar999 hows Ellsworth/RAP these days. I was born on base there. Still remember row and row of buffs and tankers, I think its just b-1 now maybe still tankers.

 

[501261]

I believe the original question was for IFR and INTERNATIONAL. I think I might be a contender! MMMA to BRO. Matamoras to Brownsville logged as 0.1 hour on the airframe, but I doubt the hobbs even moved!

 

[Capn Lucky]

ACK (Nantucket) to Hyannis is hardly worth bringing the gear up in a 1900. Its blocked at 20 minutes, but usually goes alot faster.

 

[CL60]

This has happened on certain aircraft types;

Wheels still spinning, power levers to idle, auto speed brakes deploy in the flare! Ground contact confirmed...

 

[captjim]

Ack??? you mean akron?(sp?)

we also used to do ACK-MVY in the ATR. That was about 8-10 minutes vfr at 1000 ft. AHHHHHH the good old days.

Any idea how long it takes for the IAH EFD in the RJ?

It takes the same time as it did in the 120, being that you can't go over 250 kts, about 6 minutes! Glad to be back in EFD.

 

[flywithastick]

It takes the same time as it did in the 120, being that you can't go over 250 kts, about 6 minutes! Glad to be back in EFD.

come on, now, EFD is a nice place! Where else can you see all those different kinds of planes?!

I see where you CoEx is flying jets to EFD and CLL now... those are good looking planes. Look almost like a real jet airliner!! Yea, I'm jealous... would love to fly one.