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| May 6, 2019 at 9:01 | comment | added | user | The Internet Archive has several copies of the previously linked page on the Citation X from around the time of this answer here. | |
| May 6, 2019 at 8:45 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | Plus, it's a novel, having supporting characters just happen to be in position for some other actually happens in real life reason like a refueling a fighter group transiting the Atlantic is a pretty common literary coincidence. | |
| May 6, 2019 at 8:38 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | Actually looking on a map at the great circle route from UAB to anywhere interesting in the US, even as far south as ATL and you'll see that tankers can fly from the UK, Iceland, and eastern US or Canada to cover three refuelings. Distance the tankers fly is enough times shorter to make up for their slower speed. And you could route the F22 even closer to their bases. If you have to, land in the UK (or really handoff to a fresh pilot/plane) there's more time to prepare for the 2nd and 3rd refuelings. | |
| May 6, 2019 at 8:20 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @ChrisStratton Does being worried magically position tankers south of Greenland within the flight time of a supercruising F-22? Ah - I thought so! | |
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| May 5, 2019 at 20:05 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @dalearn: Thank you for letting me know. Cessna has discontinued the X because of poor sales, so they took the page down. I replaced the volatile corporate link with a more stable one. | |
| May 5, 2019 at 1:05 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | A novel featuring a "biological agent" is almost certainly one where the people who can scramble fighters on a courier mission (and tankers to meet them) are going to be sufficiently worried to do so. The premise of the question explicitly included military assets. | |
| Nov 24, 2017 at 6:31 | comment | added | Romeo_4808N | Actually the cruise figure of Mach .935 for the Citation Ten is more of a marketing gimmick than anything else. It’s true the airplane can achieve that speed but at the expense of clogging the crap out of the engines and very high fuel consumption. Max cruise is at Mach .90. | |
| Jul 25, 2015 at 5:56 | comment | added | Firee | Thanks for the link on Gulfstream 650, that is truly an amazing aircraft, with a range of 13,000 km non-stop... | |
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| Jul 23, 2015 at 16:41 | history | answered | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |