Bid to buy the Beechcraft was rigged?

("Nathan Young" wrote)
http://wcco.com/local/local_story_287083948.html

An A36 has 6 seats, an SR22 has 4. Perhaps that is the deciding
factor. If not, it is poor form for the State of MN not to support
one of their own.


My thought was a cargo door(?) might be a deciding factor.

I suspect if you looked at ...(picking) ...the last three years worth of
missions... those six seats weren't full very often. Just a guess.

Were they hauling stuff around like (wait for it) ....a minivan? If that was
the case, then a slower hauler would be the ticket.

From St Paul (KSTP) ....nautical miles

Duluth (DLH) ..........................120 Lake Superior
(Home of Cirrus)

Grand Marais (CKC) .............205 Up the North Shore
Ely (ELO) ................................180
International Falls (INL) ..........220 Canadian border
Roseau (ROX) ........................260 NW corner

Bemidji (BJI) ...........................170 Middle of state
Brainerd (BRD) ......................100 ''
St Cloud (STC) .........................56 ''

Moorhead (JKJ) .....................190 Fargo/N Dakota border

Marshall (MML) ......................120 Southwest
Worthington (ORT) .................130 Near SD/Iowa border

Rochester (RST) ..................... 65 Mayo Clinic SE corner
Albert Lea (AEL) ......................75 Near Iowa border

If they're flying outside of Minnesota:

Chicago Midway (MDW) ........300
Denver (DEN) ..........................600
St Louis (STL) .........................400

It would be nice if the state only bought Ford Rangers too, built in St
Paul - but they don't.

I'm waiting to read more on this story.


Montblack