Video of the shortest ever landing and take-off

Geoffrey Thomas

By Geoffrey Thomas Sun Nov 4, 2018

Is this the shortest landing and take-off ever? There is no first class on these planes. Nor movies, nor champagne – not even budget economy class with a glass of water! For these are the planes that will take you to the wilds of Alaska and Canada where jumbos fear to tread and where there are no runways - just the occasional sand bars on the side of a stream or just small patch of grass. See our tribute to Concorde All the pilots of these planes need to land is a few feet or mtrs not the 3000mtrs of concrete that an A380 super-jumbo requires.
https://www.facebook.com/Extreme/videos/278939462739118/?t=16 In fact, there is a famous competition to that tests the pilot's skills for these type of aircraft held each year at Valdez Alaska. In 2017 at the Valdez Fly-In 200 aircraft and more than 2,500 hundred people descended on Pioneer Field in Valdez for the 14th Valdez Fly-In and Air Show. The 2017 event featured spectacular STOL flying, aerobatics by Scott Sexton and Gary Ward, a demonstration of a WWII era C-46 cargo plane and a world record in the world famous STOL contest. The event is held in May each year.
   

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