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    Gulfstream G450 sets speed record between Tokyo and Hong Kong

    July 15, 2010
    SAVANNAH, Ga., July 15, 2010. A large-cabin, long-range Gulfstream G450 business jet established a city-pair speed record between Tokyo and Hong Kong.
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    Posted by John McHaleSAVANNAH, Ga., July 15, 2010. A large-cabin, long-range Gulfstream G450 business jet established a city-pair speed record between Tokyo and Hong Kong.Powered by two Rolls-Royce Tay Mk 611-8C engines, the G450 can fly 4,350 nautical miles -- Beijing to New Delhi or Moscow -- nonstop at speeds as fast asMach 0.88. The aircraft features the PlaneView flight deck and the Gulfstream Enhanced Vision System (EVS) as standard equipment. The G450 took off from Tokyo's Narita International Airport at 10:50 a.m. local time and flew 1,694 nautical miles at an average cruise speed of Mach 0.85, landing 3 hours and 58 minutes later at 1:48 p.m. local time at Hong Kong International Airport. According to the crew, the first 300 miles of the flight were flown at reduced speed because of turbulence caused by headwinds of more than 100 knots. Piloting the G450 were Sean Sheldon, senior international captain, and Jaime Bahamon, international captain. Also onboard were flight attendant Joanne Dye and seven passengers.The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) confirmed the flight as a U.S. record and forwarded the figures to the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) in Switzerland for approval as a world record. The G450 established its first speed record 10 days after it entered service on May 7, 2005, flying 3,550 nautical miles -- Chicago to London -- in 7:19 at an average speed of Mach 0.85. It also set a city-pair record later in 2005, going from Washington, D.C., to Luton, England -- 3,290 nautical miles -- in 6:12 at an average speed of Mach 0.85. In 2006, it established a city-pair record, traveling from Denver to Honolulu -- 2,944 nautical miles -- in 7:07. Its other speed record came in 2009, when it flew from Oranjestad, Aruba, to Barcelona, Spain -- 4,374 miles -- in 8:56 at Mach 0.80.

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