Comment by maveric101 on 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.

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