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New type of skywriting
Gulfstream did this little piece of online marketing yesterday.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/G...538Z/KATW/KATW |
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New type of skywriting
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:18:45 -0600, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in : Gulfstream did this little piece of online marketing yesterday. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/G...538Z/KATW/KATW What does it cost to operate a Gulfstream V for 8 hours 27 minutes? Unlike media advertising, this has a rather limited audience, and is considerably more ephemeral than print media. |
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New type of skywriting
Larry Dighera wrote:
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:18:45 -0600, "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in : Gulfstream did this little piece of online marketing yesterday. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/G...538Z/KATW/KATW What does it cost to operate a Gulfstream V for 8 hours 27 minutes? Unlike media advertising, this has a rather limited audience, and is considerably more ephemeral than print media. This was most likely a test flight (say, a functional check after finishing an airplane, to make sure everything works in flight and all that), and they just decided to map out an interesting flight path instead of flying figure-eights over the great lakes all day. I've worked under the flight test group at Gulfstream for a year or so, and they don't just do stuff like this for fun. They do, however, have test profiles that require 8+ hour flights, and this was one of them. |
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New type of skywriting
In a previous article, Larry Dighera said:
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:18:45 -0600, "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in : Gulfstream did this little piece of online marketing yesterday. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/G...538Z/KATW/KATW What does it cost to operate a Gulfstream V for 8 hours 27 minutes? If they had to do the test flight anyway, the incremental cost of flying that flight path over doing an ordinary out and back are zero. -- Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/ "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein |
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New type of skywriting
And at FL490, too. Impressive.
Andrey Gig 601XL Builder wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote: Gulfstream did this little piece of online marketing yesterday. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/G...538Z/KATW/KATW |
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