[madison10]

Can we get her to use the Space Shuttle? and just keep on going? Maybe THAT would be fine enough for Her Hoity-ness.

[finnman69]

I would support shipping her UPS ground in a small cardboard box.

[BillaryBeGone]

Excuse me, but the C-20 has a range of 4,275 miles! I thought a trans-continental flight was - what? - 3,000 miles? Allow some extra for contingencies - as any good pilot should do - and that seems plenty to get Her High-and-Mightiness to her home on the Left Coast!

[MaxMax]

[Grizzled Bear]

To be fair Ms Pelosi does have a very large volume of baggage. ;-)

[word_warrior_bob]

Did they fix Ron Brown's plane yet? Maybe she could use that one.

[bray]

Shouldn't she be worried about how much Blood for Oil she wastes?? Isn't she the one scaring everyone about Global Warning??

Pray for W and Our Troops

[word_warrior_bob]

Our country has become a joke.

This is the speaker of the house? This speaker, the democrat senators and congressman are the type of whining socialist fairies we would make fun of if they were running France.

[Doctor Raoul]

It's just that Pelosi has to travel with all those spare parts under orders of her plastic surgeon...

[originalbuckeye]

I liked Hannity's reference to 'Gulfstream liberals' instead of just limousine liberals. I hope the former term sticks to them like glue!

[Doctor Raoul]

C-20 is basically your Gulfstream-III aircraft and the military has the C-20H model that cold do it coast to coast as long as you don't have a Rap Star's Posse along for the ride.

[Son House]

The Troops aren't that important to Pelosi either,
their vote had to wait till her 'first hundred hours' was over.

[skimask]

What's wrong with her broom? If her broom isn't working she can borrow Hillary's.

[FDNYRHEROES]

Nazi Pelosi needs a larger plane with full fuel tanks so the plane can be used by terrorists to slam into tall buildings

[Enchante]

Let's activate the "Spruce Goose" for Speaker Pelosi..... she can have a nice big plane that can even land on water!!

Of course, it might not be the most reliable after 60 years of inactivity, and I don't know what its range might be....

http://www.sprucegoose.org/aircraft_artifacts/exhibits.html

[Sherman Logan]

An issue that generally seems to be left out of these discussions is that Pelosi's base in SF is 2,800 air miles from DC, versus Hastert's base in IL at 700 miles from DC.

Does 4 times the distance make it reasonable for this Speaker to use a larger and more comfortable plane?

I have no idea. I just think it odd that this rather significant fact is generally ignored in the stories.

I used to regularly fly across the country on business, and I can testify that an all day flight is highly wearing, when compared to a 2 hour flight.

[Mike Darancette]

In a letter to the speaker, the Pentagon’s ruling “essentially limits her to the commuter plane used by former Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, which requires refueling to travel from Washington to Mrs. Pelosi’s San Francisco district.

Range: C-20B, 4,250 miles (3,698 nautical miles) long-range; C-20H, 4,850 miles (4,220 nautical miles) long range.

It is 2,450 air miles from DC to Sodom by the Sea. The C-20 could probably fly non-stop from DC to Anchorage, AK.

[jws3sticks]

From Gulfstream's website

Gulfstream II / III / C-20 / SRA-1VIP Transport / Reconnaissance Platform

INFORMATION:

Designation: Gulfstream II / III / C-20 / SRA-1

Manufacturer: Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation - USA

Country: United States

Service Date: 1983

Type: VIP Transport / Reconnaissance Platform

Crew: 2 + 21

DIMENSIONS:

Length: 79.9 ft (24.36 m)

Wingspan: 68.8 ft (20.98 m)

Height: 24.5 ft (7.47 m)

Weight (Empty): 36,900 lbs (16,740 kg)

Weight (Loaded): 65,500 lbs (29,710 kg)

PERFORMANCE:

Powerplant: 2 x Rolls-Royce Spey Mark 511-8 turbofan engines generating 11,400lbs of thrust

Max Speed: 581.6 mph (936 km/h)

Max Range: 4,275 miles (6,880 km)

Service Ceiling: 45,000 ft (13,716 m)

Rate of Climb: 4,350 ft/min (1,325.88 m/min)

I just don't understand the issue with Queen Nancy. What a bitch.

Check out this site!

http://www.travelnotes.org/NorthAmerica/distances.htm

It states:

From San Francisco to Washington, DC is about 2840 miles

The witch could get there and almost all the back on the same tank of fuel. She'd be 1,405 miles short. Maybe, she could land in Kansas and just stay there.

[potlatch]

   LEAVING ON A JET PLANE

  

[amichaels]

Sorry Nancy,

I don't think you can get to California non-stop on a solar or ethanol powered jet. Good luck though!