I'm done with this thread for now, one quick note
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Originally Posted by willravel
Me: Popular Mechanics sucks. According to the Air Force in their official press release, it took the F-16 about 20 minutes to reach Payne Stewart's Learjet.
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your source is the one that sucks, if you actually read the pop mech book fully or just did deeper, you'll see that both the take off and intercept time were given in local time, but the plane crossed a timezone, hence the extra hour. the total time between take off and intercept is 1:20 not 0:20.
here is the official NTSB report:
http://www.ntsb.gov/Publictn/2000/aab0001.htm
they were launched shortly after contact was not made at 0933:38 EDT
the intercept was at About 0952 CDT notice the timezone change. 80 minutes.
but anyways, this is a waste of my time, I've got calculus to study.