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It takes the Concorde 2 hours 52 minutes to fly from Dulles to Paris. That means time in the air is 5 hours and 40 minutes. That is the fastest possible flight. Was Bush on the concorde that day?
Then we have the drive time from Dulles to DC or wherever Bush was supposed to be. DeGaul airport is pretty far out too, but Dulles is like 40 minutes on a good day from downtown DC. Figure an hour on each end for driving, parking, etc. Then there is the meeting with the Iranians, maybe an hour, maybe two. I have no idea what the schedule was. I assume it arrived in the US in the morning and left not soon after. Would they schedule two round trips per day? Was there enough of a market for that?
Anyway, in order to make up with Occam's razor on this, that we are dealing with Bush being gone for a couple hours for a trip to Paris, we would have to posit a hole in his schedule of 9 hours. Minimum. That is assuming that the Concorde went back to DC after his meeting, there was time for the meeting during the Concord's turn around.
Alternative aircraft take six hours for each way.
One goof said that Bush got a ride in the jump seat of an SR71 blackbird. That the opposition candidate was allowed in the backseat of a highly classified aircraft stretches credulity a bit. Especially since the guy was in his late 50s and had only flown propeller aircraft. there is also the issue of the high pressure suit that he would have to wear and getting in and out of that.
The more this story is investigated, the weirder and dumber it becomes
Then we have the drive time from Dulles to DC or wherever Bush was supposed to be. DeGaul airport is pretty far out too, but Dulles is like 40 minutes on a good day from downtown DC. Figure an hour on each end for driving, parking, etc. Then there is the meeting with the Iranians, maybe an hour, maybe two. I have no idea what the schedule was. I assume it arrived in the US in the morning and left not soon after. Would they schedule two round trips per day? Was there enough of a market for that?
Anyway, in order to make up with Occam's razor on this, that we are dealing with Bush being gone for a couple hours for a trip to Paris, we would have to posit a hole in his schedule of 9 hours. Minimum. That is assuming that the Concorde went back to DC after his meeting, there was time for the meeting during the Concord's turn around.
Alternative aircraft take six hours for each way.
One goof said that Bush got a ride in the jump seat of an SR71 blackbird. That the opposition candidate was allowed in the backseat of a highly classified aircraft stretches credulity a bit. Especially since the guy was in his late 50s and had only flown propeller aircraft. there is also the issue of the high pressure suit that he would have to wear and getting in and out of that.
The more this story is investigated, the weirder and dumber it becomes