The airplane that the Air Force wanted to give Nancy Pelosi is the Gulfstream III. There's a GIII, GIV, GV, or 450 and 550 now. The Gulfstream III will travel eight hours. It will go 4,000 miles without having to stop to fuel. It will seat 12 people.
But the idea that they put Nancy Pelosi on a plane that will not go coast to coast is just not true. She's holding out for what essentially is a Boeing 757, which is what the vice president gets and the first lady on certain trips, and that's what she wants. Hastert did not get that. Hastert got the GIII. They could put her on the equivalent of a GIV, which would go nine hours. They could put her on a GV. I've seen government GVs in Vail. Various cabinet secretaries will fly around in those things, and a GV will go from New York to Tokyo nonstop, but they're not putting her on something that will not go California-New York nonstop or vice-versa. If they're stopping, it's for some other reason than the plane will not make it. Just trust
2007-02-13
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