Here you go guys....
Rip this one apart. This should be easy for this group...
The two F-15s were scrambled at Otis ANGB at 8:46 a.m. as the first tower at the World Trade Center was struck. By 8:52 they were airborne and according to one of the pilots flying at full speed to New York City.
Told "This looks like the real thing," Lt. Col. Timothy Duffy jammed the F-15's throttles into afterburner and the two planes flew the 153 miles to New York City at "supersonic speeds," according to an Aviation Week & Space Technology (AW) article of June 3, 2002. "It just seemed wrong. I just wanted to get there. I was in full-blower all the way," Duffy said.
The F-15 Eagle is capable of flying 1,875 mph (Mach 2.5+) and has a range of 3,000 nautical miles. At full speed the Otis F-15s should have reached New York City in about 5 minutes, by 8:58 a.m. The armed fighter jets would then have been in position to intercept the second hijacked plane, which struck the south tower at about 9:02 a.m.
The F-15s from Otis were "cocked and loaded, and even had extra gas on board," according to Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) commander Col. Robert K. Marr. Air Force Capt. Wes Ticer, spokesman for Air Combat Command told American Free Press that an F-15 at "full power" reaches 1,875 mph, although its velocity varies depending on the plane's weight and altitude.
Col. Alan Scott (Ret.) presented NORAD's timeline to the commission on May 23. In this timeline the F-15 fighter jets are said to be 71 miles, "about eight minutes out," from the World Trade Center at 9:02 a.m. when the second tower was struck. This indicates the fighters had traveled only 83 miles in some nine minutes, flying about 550 mph (Mach 0.9). Scott told the commission that the interceptors jets, which would have been flying at less than 30 percent of their full speed, were "going very fast" - and nobody questioned it.