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Old 02-16-2008, 08:48 PM   #1
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the name say it all!!

the longest:

-Caracas-Frankfurt
-Airline: Lufthansa
-Aircraft:A340-300
-Duration: 9 hours, 30 minutes
-Date: 07/2004
-Flight: I don't remember

the shortest:

-Barcelona(Ven)-Porlamar
-Airline: Aeropostal
-Aircraft: DC-9 51
-Duration: only 14 minutes!
-Date: 05/2006
-Flight: VH205
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Old 02-16-2008, 09:22 PM   #2
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How about my shortest flight on a "heavy" plane. LAS to LAX on a CO DC-10. The original flight was a HNL-LAX red eye, but we diverted to LAS due to LAX being fogged in. They parked our DC-10 at an empty terminal at LAS. The flight crew played the slots for two hours waiting for fog to clear at LAX. After about two hours, we were all told to get back on the plane for a quick 45 minute flight back to LAX.
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GRU-LAX, GRU-FRA, GIG-LHR (MD-11 or 772): 12 hours and Rio Grande-Pelotas in a Let 410 and in a Emb-120 Brasília (8 minutes).
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Old 02-17-2008, 12:21 AM   #5
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longest

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longest flight goes to london - hong kong .kuala lumpur , singapore or jakarta , dont know which is furthest, shortest is london - jersey
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longest phl-phx on a Hawaiian 767-300ER, Shortest runway 24 to Runway 24 with a Cessna 421B
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As Passenger
Longest-SQ B744 SFO to SIN
Shortest-WN B733 SJC to BUR
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Longest-PA44 RAL to CRG
Shortest-C172 RAL to PSP
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Longest: YUL-FRA, 12 Times
Air Canada: Various DC-8s, 54-61-63
Lufthansa: 707
Shortest Jet: YYZ-YUL Air Canada 1011 45 Minutes
Shortest Regional: YYR-ZUM(45 Minutes)- ZUM-YWK (30 Minutes)
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Old 02-17-2008, 10:04 PM   #10
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Longest: DEL-EWR 15.5 hrs // CO B777
Shortest: CGN-FRA 0.5 hrs // LH B737
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Longest flight: McGuire AFB, NJ to MCAS El Toro, CA in a C-130...actual time, 8 1/2 hrs; subjective time, 3 days. Shortest flight: round-trip from Ramstein AB, GE to Ramstein AB, GE in an F-16B, 18 minutes.
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Shortest flight: round-trip from Ramstein AB, GE to Ramstein AB, GE in an F-16B, 18 minutes.
Interesting...F-16B, huh! Front seat or rear seat?
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Old 02-17-2008, 10:22 PM   #13
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Rear, of course. I was awarded Airman of the Year in '78, and that was my reward...a ride in a brand-new F-16B. The pilot tried his best to make me puke, but I held out ok. I fell down when I got out of the cockpit, though.
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longest: DFW-HNL DC10
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Old 02-18-2008, 02:20 PM   #15
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longest on a narrow:
BOS-AUA, AA, 752, 6 hours

shortest on a heavy:
MIA-MCO, AA, AB6, 35 minutes
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Longest :
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LFOP to LFOP : about 15 minutes on a C152 (maaany times).
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Actual longest flight: 18 hours in a C-5 from Dover AFB to Diego Garcia Is., Indian Ocean. Longest time sitting on the ground: 9 hours at DFW during severe weather...the whole time spent aboard the aircraft, a Delta Connection CRJ 700.
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Old 02-18-2008, 08:04 PM   #18
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My longest was CDG/LAX (1h30 refuelling stop)/PPT (Tahiti): about 20 hours in total. Although it was with Air France on a spacious and very confortable A343, I was relatively tired upon arrival.

The shortest was probably with Corsair: this company links La Martinique and La Guadeloupe to Paris using the same plane which does CDG/FDF/PTP and return to CDG in a row. There is about 20-30 min between FDF and PTP, which is quiet a short trip, specially with a 743 (it was F-GSEX, the one with the red lips).
An unscheduled non-regular but even shorter flight was once MPL-FNI in an Air France A320, just to pick up some VIP guest (?) on our way to ORY. about 12 min flying time.
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Longest Flight (distance): 5,687 mi, 10:40 h, Panama (Tocumen) - Milano (Malpensa), Livingston A330-200
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That's a great site, thanks Lollo! I wish it had existed when I took my first flight 15-16 years ago.
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I'm assuming these are for non-stop flights? If so...

Longest flights:

LAX-SYD, LAX-NRT, LAX-TPE, DXB-EWR, DXB-JFK

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Longest flight 13.5 hours on a C130 tanker from Ascension Island in the South Atlantic back to Ascension.

Shortest would be a practice launch failure in a glider landing straight ahead and lasting about 30 seconds.
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Actual longest flight: 18 hours in a C-5 from Dover AFB to Diego Garcia Is., Indian Ocean. Longest time sitting on the ground: 9 hours at DFW during severe weather...the whole time spent aboard the aircraft, a Delta Connection CRJ 700.
..... In 1994 got to sit in the back seat of an F/A-18B with my buddy Fred "Spuds" Johnson in front. No 18 minutes though. He had the plane to do carrier quals and on one for the back seat so I got the invite. Flew mostly over the Atlantic off Virginia. Did touch & goes, landings and take-offs on the USS Eisenhower. The total time was about six hours from the time we took off from NAS Oceana and return. Fred paid for lunch in the CVN69 wardroom and my handle for the day was "Grunt".
..... Although it was shorter, it seemed longer sitting in one of those damned jumpseats in a C-141 from Biloxi AFB to Guam. We were jammed in so tight if you needed to use the toilet you had better plan that an hour or two in advance.
..... Longest commercial flight was Singapore Airlines Seattle to Jakarta with a brief stop at Singapore.
..... Shortest flight was aboard a Navy CH-46 from USS Inchon (LPH12) to NAS Norfolk: about 10 minutes.
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Longest 8+ hrs in the Met Office C130 and 6 hrs in NASA's DC8, shortest, 1 minute in a company Seneca, the door popped open and we landed again, and a few flights of 1 circuit round the aerodrome!
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