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Old Aug 1, 17, 10:57 pm
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Wink Today, I believe I had the shortest flight in the history of AK; perhaps the world
I took off from NNK in a King Air Piper Saratoga and landed at WSN approximately 45 seconds later. The return was a grueling 90 second haul, due to having to make a couple turns. I know this isn't AS related, but thought it might be of some interest.
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Old Aug 1, 17, 11:31 pm
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AS related - many moons ago from SFO to OAK. Remember it was an MD80.
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Old Aug 1, 17, 11:38 pm
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Originally Posted by Valveman
AS related - many moons ago from SFO to OAK. Remember it was an MD80.
I did that too...only opposite direction from OAK-SFO when we needed fuel in OAK due to fog issues (I think) at SFO.
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WRG-PSG on the milk run. Pretty sure it's the shortest scheduled jet flight in the world.
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Someone's going to school:
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Old Aug 2, 17, 12:05 am
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Someone's going to school:
Lol! I read an article about the children who live in South Naknek and fly to school daily!
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Originally Posted by Chugach
WRG-PSG on the milk run. Pretty sure it's the shortest scheduled jet flight in the world.
FIH-BZV was once the shortest scheduled 787 flight looks like now its 737. Its 17 mi on great circle map.

http://blog.wandr.me/2015/08/shortes...-in-the-world/
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I once saw an AA flight between JFK and LGA on the departure board; I'm sure it was a positioning flight w/o pax due to some SNAFU or other, but it was amusing.
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We flew from BUR to ONT on a hot day because AS could not carry enough fuel to legally take off from BUR and get to PDX.
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A year ago, I flew from PAE to SEA after a weather/fuel divert for thunderstorms on AS 15 from Boston. 12 minutes. NO EQMs though.
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Old Aug 2, 17, 4:43 pm
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Originally Posted by AKLifetimeFlyer
I took off from NNK in a King Air Piper Saratoga and landed at WSN approximately 45 seconds later. The return was a grueling 90 second haul, due to having to make a couple turns. I know this isn't AS related, but thought it might be of some interest.
That was what, nearly 4x the duration of Orville's first flight?
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Old Mar 31, 23, 2:20 am
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Originally Posted by Kufat
I once saw an AA flight between JFK and LGA on the departure board; I'm sure it was a positioning flight w/o pax due to some SNAFU or other, but it was amusing.
Theres a youtube about one of these going VFR. Really confused the ATC folks.
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Old Apr 14, 23, 10:46 pm
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Not Alaska but I once flew MLB (Essendon) to MEL (Tullamarine) both in Melbourne separated by 6Km. We landed at MLB due to fog and once clear took off and landed next door. We could have walked quicker.
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