31 August 2012

The world's shortest scheduled airline flight


Two minutes in duration, from Westray to Papa Westray (in the Orkneys).  The entire flight is documented in this 2-minute video.

Via 22 Words.

6 comments:

  1. The video also shows off the bending propeller illusion nicely. And some very pretty scenery.

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  2. It was also the answer to a question on Qi (at about the 11:30 mark) that you linked to recently:
    http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2012/08/which-international-head-of-state.html

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    1. Excellent. I hadn't watched that part of the video. Tx.

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  3. Only problem with this flight is that while it only takes 2 minutes from take-off to landing, because of technical problems, you have to wait in the plane after boarding for an hour before take-off, and after landing it takes two hours before a gate opens up and you can deplane.

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  4. I read somewhere too that the flight time varies between 45 seconds and several minutes depending on wind direction and speed. The 45 second variant would be interesting.

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  5. They've got populations of 563 and 65 people, respectively (according to Wikipedia).

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