More Fun with FlightAware

Civil Aviation

Corporate jet manufacturer Gulfstream has been running some test flights over the last month of their Gulfstream V (“G-Five”) aircraft. As you can see from FlightAware, they thought it would be fun to show off on this particular flight.

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Yup, that’s called skywriting for the web. This flight took 8 hours and 27 minutes at altitudes of up to 49,000 feet. As you can tell, they wrote the aircraft name “G V” in their flight. I have to give them credit. That’s really creative.

Thanks to this thread on airliners.net for the heads up.

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