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Video: World's Shortest (Scheduled) Flight
Here's a flight you're not likely to get beverage service - this two-minute trip from Westray to Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands probably cost more in gas than it made from ferrying passengers across the water, but the camera showing exactly what happened on the flight makes it fun to watch!
What do you think? Would you take a flight this short, or would you prefer a ferry?
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Dave Aug 22nd 2012 11:51AM
I believe they have a bridge in Alaska they'd be willing to sell these folks.
Ian Leggat Aug 22nd 2012 12:55PM
There is a wonderful story about this flight from several years ago, of a British Airways pilot who flew this route and pranked the passengers by removing his uniform jacket and pretending to be a passenger who got tired of waiting and flew the plane himself. He was disciplined for the stunt, but it didn't stop him from other gags, like getting on at the back of a plane and going the full length of the cabin to the cockpit, using a white cane to "feel his way "
GRAMOS555 Aug 22nd 2012 1:29PM
I love that it took off from a gravel runway and landed on a single asphalt runway moments later....crossing a small piece of water that at one time in history was the long-standing boundary between 'civilization' and barbarians.
The world is a smaller place, indeed.