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The EC 135 (one of the Airbus helicopters in the NPAS fleet) has a cruising speed of approximately 150mph. In the lifetime of the contract a EC 135 could have covered 12.8 million miles - that's nearly 27 round trips to the moon.
150 miles/hr
x 24= 3,600 miles/day
x 365 = 1,314,000 miles / year
x 5 =
6,570,000 miles in 5 years.
12,800,000 in 5 years = 2,560,000 miles / year
= 7,014 miles / day =
292 mph
98% of the population in 20 minutes!
Just to note, a round trip to the moon is 541,103 nm (Apollo 13)