re: #120 To hold my temper, most of the time.

So…why can they hire enough people to fake the newspaper archives, but not the airplane archives.

Again—how long was the Kenya to Hawaii flights in the early 1960’s? For a woman that had just given birth?

To be as charitable as possible, the 9329nmi great circle route (which, notably, flies over several unfriendly countries and would never, ever be used) would require about 19 hours on either likely aircraft, not including at least one refueling stop. A more likely number would be a bit over 10600nmi, for easy 22 hours in the air (without any time penalty for takeoff, landing, etc).

Figure 25 hours for an actual chartered aircraft, more for commercial.