Long-distance Apparating; WAS: Deduct ten points from your LOON membership

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Sushi <sushi at s...> wrote:
> 
> >We know that brooms are used for long-distance travel because it is
> >difficult to Apparate over long distances.  The issue is whether 
the
> >distance between London and Hogsmeade, which is somewhere in
> >Scotland, is far enough to preclude Apparating.
> >
> >Haggridd
> 
>          Well, nobody ever said Apparation all had to be done in 
one 
> jump.  Heck, hopscotching would make London->Lima feasible, via 
either the 
> Bering Strait or Iceland and Greenland.  It would definitely make 
> *hopscotch* interesting as well (would that require cannons?).
> 
> Sushi, nitpicky

I believe that Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (in another 
incarnation during which he was occupied by the quest for a 
certain "Grail") compared the maximum range of Apparation to that of 
a swallow.

Does anybody know the maximum range and velocity of a fully-laden 
swallow?

:-)
Haggridd