Avion Luxury International Airport Magazine

A matter of business. The borderless sky

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Touching the clouds. Caressing the sky. Among the dense network of routes which like a vast spider’s web connect distant points and bring destinatio­ns closer, there is always another part of the world ready to welcome us. And taking us there, ready to face jet lag, eliminate discomfort and distances and waiting to take off are the business jets. At the top of its game is the Dassault Falcon 8 X, an ultra-long range aircraft able to travel non-stop from New York to Dubai, Hong Kong to Johannesbu­rg or Los Angeles to Beijing and Shanghai, and with ease, thanks to the power of its three Pratt & Whitney Canada turbofan PW307D engines, greater fuel efficiency (35%), enviable handling skills, and its ability to fly for over 8000 km without refuelling and to land on short runways. The comfort offered by the longer cabin marries versatile efficiency with various configurat­ions: three galley sizes are available (8-19 passengers). The redesigned flight deck equipped with a headup display combines synthetic and enhanced vision and highly technologi­cal, fluid and precise control of the flight trajectory, protection included. The whisker-like forward wing and the winglets announce the arrival of an important evolution of the historical P180 by Piaggio: the new Avanti Evo, the fastest t win turboprop in the world with its 402 knots (745 km/h), improved aerodynami­cs and reduced consumptio­n (-3% and -40% compared to jets in the same class), as well as lower noise emissions inside and out (-68%), making it an extremely environmen­tally friendly aircraft. The various optional features, tablet-supported electronic flight bag and a new landing gear with anti-skid carbon brakes and digital steering, new air-conditioni­ng and LED lighting systems and a Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 avionic suite (which gives a range of over 3,000 km) are the jewels in the crown of an agile, comfortabl­e top-performanc­e model (unique for business aviation, designed and built entirely in Italy). With Bombardier Challenger 650 emotions rise sky. Comfort is combined with safety and technologi­cal features: FMC performanc­e computatio­n with single e-charts (IFIS), ADS-B out, large 15 inch display with head-up guide, synthetic and enhanced vision, MultiScan weather radar and integrated flight informatio­n system, lightning detection, flight data recorder and superior connectivi­ty. It is an aircraft with wide wing span (64 f t 4 in, 19.6 m), with GE CF34-3B MTO turbofan engines and the possibilit­y of calculatin­g flexible takeoff thrust settings depending on field length, great attention paid to comfort in the cabin, which holds up to 12 passengers, layout with fourplace divan, larger seats, in-flight entertainm­ent system, HD and audio/video on demand controlled in the cable, as well as improvemen­ts to the flight deck and avionics systems. With superior performanc­e, instead, the Cessna Citation Latitude has a long cruising range of 5,278 km (2,850 nautical miles) and takeoff distance of 1,091 m (3,580 f t). The aircraft reaches a maximum cruising speed of 826 km/h, which will get you from New York to Los Angeles in five hours and two minutes, or Hong Kong t o Beijing in t wo hours and f or t y f i ve minutes. It offers a brand new body, luminous spaces, spacious crosssecti­on, Garmin G5000 avionics system and auto-throttle capabiliti­es, cabin with air-conditioni­ng and new pressurisa­tion

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