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View submission: What If?: Letter to Mom
I once considered if I could see concerts in New York and Vancouver on the same night. With the time zones, the show in New York would get done about two hours before the one in Vancouver started. Ultimately I concluded the X-15 had the speed but not the range (and the USAF banned me from their museum anyway after the B-36 incident). In the end, I too figured a ballistic missile was the only way, though I hoped a supersonic parachute would have given me a better than zero chance of survival.
Comment by liehon at 01/08/2014 at 07:59 UTC
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Next time try the X-wing. It's hyperspace drive can get you across the galaxy (just keep an empty bottle in the cockpit before launch)
Comment by maveric101 at 01/08/2014 at 18:59 UTC*
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Why not the SR-71? At top speed, it could do the trip in just over an hour (distance is about 2500 miles, cruising speed is around 2000, top speed is supposedly around 2200 mph, though nobody really knows), and should make it in two hours even if you include time for takeoff, refueling, and landing.
Edit: Apparently one of them (the final flight, I think) flew from LA to DC in 64 minutes, 20 seconds, covering about 2286 miles. NY to Vancouver is 2445.