Without stopovers: 12 hrs from Belgrade to Singapore on DC-10.
With stopovers: Tokyo-Singapore on 747-Singapore to Belgrade on DC-10-Belgrade-Dubrovnik on Dc-9. 3-5 hrs in each place. When I landed I was totally wasted, to put it simply.
Mine haven’t been nearly as long, but I’ll swear it felt like I was flapping my arms the whole time…
15 hours Hong Kong to San Francisco.
And I was seated next to a colleague from work who was, bless her, a talkathon.
With a Czech accent.
“Now, Beeel!”
20 hours. Day Two of Desert Storm.
RIF doesn’t count!
Well of course it does and thank you for your service, sincerely.
C-17?
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!
Returning home from deployment to the Horn of Africa. I hated that place. Couldn’t get home fast enough
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…
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…
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.
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.
44 hours, Chattanooga to Key West and back on a weekend, towing a Saab on the way back (4 hours on Key West prepping the Saab for the tow). Wasn’t flying, but sometimes we had that van below the radar.
Eight hours during operation Able Manner (1994 Haitian Migration)
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.
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.[t$t]
In 2007, I took leave of my senses and left everything behind to do some travelling in hopes of finding center after a difficult divorce. If I recall correctly, the flight from the States to London took right around 12 hours. The flight from Rome to Auckland, New Zealand took 26 hours (one hour lay-over in Dubai), and the flight home from Auckland was 23 hours into Los Angeles. All that I can say is that whomever got the idea to fit each passenger seat with the in-flight entertainment center (video games, movies, and television) deserves a little bonus and a big handshake!
14 hours Chicago to Kobe Japan.
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.
Every flight is an eternity when your 6’8" and stuck in a window seat in economy class
Singapore to NY direct with headwinds and the usual BS in NY. 20 + hrs.