Priced at more than a billion dollars, it is ringed by dozens of antiaircraft guns and large radar stations meant to track approaching jets.
But he went on to ask another one, perhaps less excusable: 'What was it like to see those planes coming towards you?' I'm not persuaded that he was commiserating with the victims whose terror he wanted to share as they looked out of the World Trade Centre at the approaching jets.
In the Reynolds-number range addressed, 50 1000, the flow of the approaching jets is nearly inviscid, with viscous effects and mixing being restricted to the thin mixing layers surrounding the jets and to a thin layer located at the separating stream surface.
But I guess it also explains why all the former presidents have approached jet lag differently over the years.
While in its origins, Joy was experiencing upper-level wind shear, but as it approached the jet stream while turning to the southwest, conditions became more favourable for intensification.
Whenever a helicopter approached a Jets practice, Weeb Ewbank, the Jets' original coach, and Walt Michaels, an assistant who later became the coach, believed a Raiders spy was inside it.
Veteri, who no longer works for the league and lives in Westchester County, approached the Jets with the idea of putting him in the booth, and the Jets agreed that it made sense to employ someone who understood the challenge system.
He did not flinch at the din of a Delta jet approaching the nearby runway at Kennedy International Airport.
In June, marines fired their rifles at a civilian passenger jet approaching the Seoul airport, mistaking the plane for a North Korean aircraft.
