只飞九十秒的航班

这趟航班只飞九十秒。标记那个害怕坐飞机的朋友。在苏格兰最北端，灰色的大海中有一些绿色的小岛。其中两座岛叫韦斯特雷岛和帕帕韦斯特雷岛。一架非常小的飞机就在这两座岛之间往返。

This flight lasts ninety seconds. Tag the friend who hates flying. In the far north of Scotland there are small green islands in a grey sea. Two of them are called Westray and Papa Westray. A very small plane flies between them.

这架飞机很小，能载的乘客不到十个人。驾驶舱前面没有隔墙，乘客可以看到飞行员操作。跑道很短，是草地和碎石铺成的，旁边立着一个风向袋，绵羊就站在跑道边的草地上。飞机起飞，稍微转个弯，就又降落了。整趟旅程还不到三公里。

The plane is tiny. It carries fewer than ten people. There is no wall in front, so the passengers watch the pilot work. The runway is short. It is grass and gravel and a windsock, and sheep stand in the field beside it. The plane goes up, turns a little, and comes down again. The whole trip is under three kilometres.

时刻表上写着一分半钟，大多数日子实际飞行时间更短。历史上最快的一次只用了五十三秒，比这篇故事还短。住在这两座岛上的人并不觉得这有什么特别，对他们来说，这只是去邻岛的“公交车”。但对其他所有人来说，这是世界上最短的航班。

The timetable says one and a half minutes. Most days it is faster than that. The fastest flight ever took fifty-three seconds, which is shorter than this story. The people who live on the islands do not think it is special. For them it is just the bus to the next island. For everybody else, it is the shortest flight in the world.