Thu, Jan 11, 2007
WHY? Because They CAN... Three Records and More than 13,000 NM
in Eight Days
The ultra-long-range Gulfstream G550 business-jet aircraft
recently established three new city-pair records, bringing the
total number of records established by Gulfstream-operated G550s in
2006 to ten. The three most recent records were established during
an eight-day period in December.
On Dec. 13, 2006 , the G550 took off from Luis Muñoz
Marin International Airport in San Juan , Puerto Rico at 7:43 p.m.
local time. Gulfstream senior international captain Ray Wellington
and Gulfstream experimental test pilot Scott Martin flew the
aircraft 5,841 nautical miles at an average cruise speed of Mach
0.83, landing at Cape Town International Airport in South Africa
the following day at 1:55 p.m. local time with 5,000 pounds of fuel
remaining. Flight attendant Linda Barr assisted the 12 passengers
who were onboard for the 12-hour, 11-minute flight.
The same flight crew and nine passengers boarded the G550 three
days later on Dec. 17 and took off from Cape Town International at
9:18 a.m. local time. The G550 flew 3,677 nautical miles into
headwinds averaging 46 knots and at an average cruise speed of Mach
0.80, landing eight hours and 55 minutes later at 1:15 p.m. local
time at Capitan Corbeta C.A. Curbelo International Airport in
Maldonado, Uruguay.
On a Dec. 20 return flight to Cape Town, G550 pilots Martin and
Wellington, flight attendant Barr and one passenger took off from
Capitan Corbeta C.A. Curbelo International at 8:21 a.m. local time.
The business jet flew eastbound with an average tailwind of 57
knots and an average cruise speed of Mach 0.85, flying 3,610
nautical miles and landing six hours and 51 minutes later at 7:12
p.m. the same day in Cape Town.
Gulfstream has submitted applications to the National Aeronautic
Association to confirm each of these new city-pair records.
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