Wednesday, May 07, 2003

Dear Bartcop

 Subject: Flight time to the USS Lincoln

 FYI: A Sikorsky VH-60 helicopter (like Bush’s Marine-1) has a cruising speed of 150 knots
 (172.8 statute miles per hours). So, the trip out to the carrier that Ari Fleisher said would take
“hours” in a helicopter would take roughly 13 1/2 minutes plus some take-off and landing time.

 In short, the trip would have probably taken less total time than it took to dress the chimp in a flight suit

 By the way, an S-3 cruises at 450 knots so putting him in the S-3 trimmed, at most,
 9 minutes off making the trip in Bush’s Blackhawk

 Mike G

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