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Reply #8: Do you know how fast these fighter jets go? [View All]

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8. Do you know how fast these fighter jets go?
As I understand, about 1500 miles an hour.

Long Island is 118 miles long, and that includes Brooklyn. If they are even all the way out at the furthest point which is Montauk, it should only take them, at top speed, 5 minutes to get to the city.

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  September 11, 9:09 a.m.: How New York City was betrayed woody b  Feb-09-05 05:47 PM   #0 
   What additional harm came to NYC as a result?  gbwarming   Feb-09-05 06:06 PM   #1 
   NYC suffered no additional harm  woody b   Feb-09-05 06:10 PM   #2 
   Actually, I take it at face value, as a resource management decision  gbwarming   Feb-09-05 06:25 PM   #3 
      hmmm and none were scrambled out of mcguire nj!! n/t  flyarm   Feb-09-05 10:04 PM   #4 
      Did McGuire have anything appropriate to scramble?  gbwarming   Feb-10-05 12:33 AM   #6 
      Long Island  woody b   Feb-10-05 12:52 PM   #7 
      Do you know how fast these fighter jets go?  OmmmSweetOmmm   Feb-10-05 01:45 PM   #8 
      trouble is they seemed able to reach speeds of only 300-700 nmph that day  meppie-meppie not   Feb-10-05 04:49 PM   #10 
         7OO knots would be max speed with external fuel tanks...  hack89   Jun-19-05 08:06 AM   #13 
      Good posts, Woody!  paulthompson   Jun-19-05 09:51 AM   #18 
      Its about a 3 minute trip  philb   Jun-20-05 12:41 AM   #31 
      that being the case then why the worry over fuel if they were so close?  meppie-meppie not   Feb-10-05 04:46 PM   #9 
   Did they know at the time no other hijacked planes were coming to NYC?  spooked911   Feb-09-05 11:12 PM   #5 
   New York City was betrayed when the WTC was blown to smithereens!  Dancing_Dave   Feb-12-05 06:25 PM   #11 
   As the question has never been answered ...  John Doe II   Jun-19-05 05:16 AM   #12 
   You might have a misguided faith in the competence of the US Air Force..  hack89   Jun-19-05 08:09 AM   #14 
   You are delving into a area most CT'er dare not venture  LARED   Jun-19-05 08:51 AM   #15 
   Some stuff is surprising, some isn't  Kevin Fenton   Jun-19-05 09:22 AM   #16 
      Yes  paulthompson   Jun-19-05 09:47 AM   #17 
      Clarke, etc.  Kevin Fenton   Jun-19-05 10:41 AM   #19 
      expecting yet another truck bomb  petgoat   Apr-07-06 01:30 PM   #38 
      They fucked up Iraq - why couldn't they fuck up 9/11?  hack89   Jun-19-05 11:26 AM   #20 
         What do you mean fucked up?  spooked911   Jun-19-05 01:35 PM   #21 
         Shambles  Kevin Fenton   Jun-19-05 03:05 PM   #26 
            I was referring to the neocons-- and they definitely want a clash of  spooked911   Jun-20-05 12:02 AM   #30 
            Lots  Kevin Fenton   Jun-20-05 02:49 PM   #33 
            "I don't even think that they specifically wanted control of the oil"  oblivious   Mar-10-07 06:41 AM   #41 
         Wrongness  Kevin Fenton   Jun-19-05 02:27 PM   #24 
      Crisis management procedures are not  LARED   Jun-19-05 01:38 PM   #22 
      Crisis management guy  Kevin Fenton   Jun-19-05 02:14 PM   #23 
         I think you have a  LARED   Jun-19-05 05:06 PM   #27 
            Rummy resign  Kevin Fenton   Jun-20-05 01:56 AM   #32 
      Military anathema  woody b   Jun-19-05 03:02 PM   #25 
         You're right  LARED   Jun-19-05 10:18 PM   #29 
   "the result of incompetence"  petgoat   Apr-07-06 01:17 PM   #37 
   Is a fighter still a "fighter" if its unarmed?  undeterred   Jun-19-05 09:36 PM   #28 
   Was the east coast deliberately left defenseless on 9/11?  philb   Jun-21-05 12:19 AM   #34 
   Why does this perfectly  Andre II   Apr-07-06 04:07 AM   #35 
   additionally to the time of the end of stand down ...  medienanalyse   Apr-07-06 09:28 AM   #36 
   kick - in the light of the VF article  woody b   Aug-03-06 03:56 PM   #39 
      Yes, the question still stands  Andre II   Mar-10-07 05:49 AM   #40 
         myers claim  RedSock   Mar-10-07 10:01 AM   #42 
 

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