On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:47 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > They just want you to ~think~ he was on Marine One. It was a decoy. > > He really took the bus. It looks like one of those rockstar tour buses, but > it's heavily armoured and it has a nice powder room for Michelle. > > They wanted to take the scenic route through the Blue Ridge Mountains. > > Cheers, > frank
What i want to know is, why does it take us 6 weeks to elect a Prime minister, and it takes our US friends 4 years ot elect a President. :-) :-) Dave > > --- Original Message --- > > From: John Sessoms <[email protected]> > Sent: December 14, 2011 12/14/11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: OT: How far do you think ... ? > > How far do you think the President of the U.S. travels by helicopter > before the distance becomes so great that they'd use Air Force 1 instead? > > I'm pretty sure I saw "Marine One" pass over my house about half an hour > ago, headed north towards DC, and I know Obama was down at Ft. Bragg > this morning. > > By automobile, it would be about 327 miles from the White House to 18th > Airborne Corps HQ (according to Google Maps)... figure about 250 miles > "as the crow flies". > > I just wonder if they'd make the entire trip in the helicopter or if > they'd take a helicopter out to Andrews to meet Air Force 1 and another > helicopter would be staged down at Pope AFB to make the hop over to > Corps HQ (or where ever they met the soldiers). > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
