Happy birthday, Mr Linklater

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Stuart Linklater turns 60 today, and retires from his job flying between the Orkney Islands. The BBC has a a video, with some lovely views, and gets very excited about the fact that Mr Linklater's routes include the Westray / Papa Westray flight, which is the world's shortest scheduled flight. I have sat on the beach on Papay and watched the whole flight, take-off to landing (it takes about a minute, and Mr Linklater holds the record for doing it faster than anyone else - 53 seconds - as well as more often). STV has a slightly different video (possibly because their reporter was in Orkney, not Glasgow).

The Orcadian doesn't have anything to say on the topic; flights are presumably not disrupted - I hope not, as we are flying between Mainland and North Ronaldsay in a couple of months time.