Focus Magazine of SWFL Cheers To Your Style | Page 91

Business air travel has become more popular over the past few years, due to our increasing need within our global marketplace. Whether you engage in air travel for business, touring, visiting family or other purposes, it has become a more pleasurable experience for many. Not only for large corporations and high net-worth individuals, but small and mid-size companies willing to meet the business demand. Gulfstream, an award winning company with over 50 years in the jet market, will be releasing its new super mid-size business jet; the G280, aimed at providing best in class performance in business aviation. What makes the G280 such an improvement? It’s what you expect from a super mid-size luxury jet; speed, range, safety and comfort. From an altitude of 43,000 feet covering 3,682 nautical miles, speed of Mach 0.80, from Dulles International in Washington D.C. to Geneva in 7 hours and 47 minutes is just one example of the exceptional qualities of the G280. How about traveling at Mach 0.80 from Dallas to Washington D.C. for a total flight of 2 hours and 20 minutes, landing with NBAA IFR reserves? Let’s leave from Paris Le Bourget Airport for a meeting in White Plains, New York at Mach 0.80 with air time as quick as 7 hours and 40 minutes? All dependant on flight conditions. These improvements are in part to a new high-speed wing design and Honeywell HTF7250G engines improving the G280’s fuel efficiency. Giving the G280 a shorter balanced field length of 4,750 feet, allows the G280 the ability to land and take off from many air fields. continued on page 93... FOCUS of SWFL 2014 91