[Fresh Wind]

Kerry said the Israel "ACE" took the plane off and offered Kerry the controls when it was about five feet off the ground.

I'm not a pilot, but this doesn't make any sense at all. Five feet off the ground is hardly a safe altitude to change pilots. Kerry is lying, for sure.

[Steely Tom]

I'm not a pilot, but this doesn't make any sense at all. Five feet off the ground is hardly a safe altitude to change pilots. Kerry is lying, for sure.

Look, Senator, I'm not comfortable letting you pilot the whole take-off... I'll tell you what. Let me get her up to 160 knots, and once we're off the ground five feet or so, I'll hand the controls over to you, how's that?

(steely)

[ought-six]

"Five feet off the ground is hardly a safe altitude to change pilots. Kerry is lying, for sure."

Five feet off the ground on take-off is still in the rotation phase, and there is NO WAY a pilot is going to turn over the controls to an amateur, of whom the pilot has no conception of that amateur's flying skills, at such a critical moment. This story is pure bull$hit, but typical Kerry. Oops, but I am being redundant.