How long was your longest flight?

From Little Rock , Arkansas To Chicago ( fuel ) Then to Denver ( fuel ) and on to San Francisco . Just about , with stop-overs 16 hours .

ygmodeler4

Every flight is an eternity when your 6'8" and stuck in a window seat in economy class

Holy Cow, Josiah!! You're 6'8", and you ain't in the NBA???!!!! 

Good story that.

We used to fly San Francisco- Santa Barbara CA on passes on weekends to see my moms parents.

That's maybe 6 hours by car.

San Francisco, follow Route 101 to Salinas, follow Route 1 to Monterey, follow 68 back to Salinas without landing and then 101 down to King City, then down to Paso Robles, then 42 over to the coast without landing at Lompoc unless there were servicemen from Vandenburg in the terminal, then on the coast following the Southern Pacific tracks around Point  Arguello and down into Santa Barbara.

On a light night return, they'd skip going inland to PR and follow the coast up to Monterey. If all was right, we'd fly over Hearst Castle at San Simeon at 10,000 feet at sunset.

Convair 440 IIRC.

Fort Smith, Arkansas to Chicago in  a little Convair prop something-or-other, with a load of live chickens and puppies in the cargo hold below!  Hot, humid, noisy- fortunately not smelly!

I did fly San Francisco New Delhi over a 23 hour period. But that included a 12 hour lay over in Germany due to fog in India.

Bill

Kadena, Okinawa to San Francisco

Longest for me and my wife was 38 hours of travel time. Sacramento to Minneapolis, then to Amsterdam. From Amsterdam then on to Almaty, Kazakhstan. Lots of resetting my watch.....I have no idea how many time-zones were crossed but I know I never want to go through THAT again.  

We then lived in Kazakhstan for two months, then repeated the whole process coming home. There's no place like home.......

Matt

My longest was Philadelphia to Puerto Princessa, Philippines.  Phila. to San Fransisco (6hrs) to Honolulu (5hrs) to Manila (8hrs) to Puerto Princessa (2hrs).  Then right onto a boat sailing overnight to Tubbataha reef in the middle of the Sulu Sea.  At least one could sleep on the boat....

Don

Well, my first marriage lasted 17 years from Round One...

Oh sorry, you said longest FLIGHT!

Back in 1981,12 hours Honolulu to Newark.We went Honolulu to Oakland to Baltimore to Newark.

sharkbait

Singapore to NY  direct with headwinds and the usual BS in NY. 20 + hrs.

I don't know if it still is or not but that used to be the longest flight in the world for a while.

GMorrison

RIF doesn't count!

Well of course it does and thank you for your service, sincerely.

C-17?

Singapore to NY  direct with headwinds and the usual BS in NY. 20 + hrs.

Every flight is an eternity when your 6'8" and stuck in a window seat in economy class

Longest at the controls?  Phoenix to Lihue, Kauai, 7:38 hrs if I remember correctly...in a Boeing 757-200.  Longest as a passenger?  I don't remember the time exactly but it was something like just over 10 hrs in a TWA 747 from London, Heathrow to LAX.

14 hours Chicago to Kobe Japan.  

Travis AFB in the bay area to Clark AFB, Manila on a stretched DC8, crammed to the gills.  Two refueling stops, Hawaii and Guam (they had to get a 52 off the ground to have room to put us I think.)  Can't remember timewise, but seemed forever at the time.

**EDIT**  The shortest was the return on the same route, and tossed in the run from Udorn to Clark.

Numerous 20 hour flights as a crew member on the P-3B Orion.  Longest commercial flight:

Sondrestromfjord, Greenland to Copenhagen, London, Paris, Zurich, Addis Ababa, Mahe, Seychelles.

Longest at the controls:  8 hours in a Schweitzer SGS1-26B at Dillingham Field, Oahu, Hawaii.

Eight hours during operation Able Manner (1994 Haitian Migration)

Longest for me was Amsterdam - Chicago, 11 hours on the flight home, going over was only 9.5, had a helluva headwind coming back.  However, I do have a longer one coming up as I am going from LA to Sydney, looking at 18 hours.

Longest at controls was St, Louis to Detroit and back.  Not far, but in an Ercoupe that does take awhile! Takes a fuel and pit stop.  Longest in air was Minneapolis to Madrid via two stops.  As I remember it was about 12 hours total if I have my time zones computed right.  Most of that was NY to Amsterdam, other two were pretty short hops.

26 Hours - Okinawa to Tokyo, Tokyo to San Francisco, then San Francisco to Atlanta. Just to see my oldest son get married. It was 22 hours to get there........

It's a toss up... San Francisco to Tokyo, non stop, that included over an hour of holding before landing due to air traffic back up at Tokyo... Something like 14 hours that one...  Coming back from Bosnia was a non stop flight from Germany, after a short hop there from the Bos, non stop to McChord AFB in Washington... That was close to 14 hours as well... A couple flights from Germany to Los Alamitos AAF in a KC-135 with a stopover in Maine for customs were pretty close in duration... maybe only 13 hours in the air...

Returning home from deployment to the Horn of Africa. I hated that place. Couldn't get home fast enough

A little over 8hrs, from Edwards AFB to Hawaii, on a C-130 (MAC flight, when I was 8).

4.8hrs was the longest at the controls, but was done in 3 "legs" (cross country trip for multi-engine/commercial rating) Knocked out a few requirements on that flight, and add on actual IFR at night and an engine failure...good times!

RIF doesn't count!

Well of course it does and thank you for your service, sincerely.

C-17?

20 hours. Day Two of Desert Storm.