Tag: world record

The shortest flight in the world loses its pilot

A pilot who has completed the world’s shortest scheduled flight more than 12,000 times is to take to the skies over Orkney for the last time… It takes just two minutes – including taxiing – to complete the 1.7 mile flight, which is about the same length as the runway at Edinburgh Airport. During his time on the inter-isle routes – which also includes flights to Stronsay, Sanday, North Ronaldsay and Eday – the Orkney-based pilot has chalked up more than 1.3 million miles in the single-manned, eight-seater Britten-Norman Islander aircraft used on the service.

Eurovision is bigger than cancer… fact

During Blogworld Expo every introduction and talk started with “and please use the tag #beatcancer so we can get a World Record” or something similar. Which frankly sounds really positive, but is it any different than hiring a click squad in china to work an advertising campaign or YouTube promotion? So the news that the tag #beatcancer was used 209,771 times, and set the world record for the most widespread social message in twenty four hours (a) does not come as a big surprise and (b) feels incredibly false to me. Of course it made a record, because you made