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Show You Inside the Gulfstream Private Jet HQ

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Big implications loom. Power is the ability to zip off up to 8,000 nautical miles, about enough to get to any major or minor city around the world in a span of hours; decadence is doing so in the lap of luxury. Become the owner or part-owner of such a thing, or just loiter around it, and you grow too — you start reciting Tom Cruise quotes from Tropic Thunder in your head, mumbling “Lookin’ so fly, like a G6,” aloud. Sixty-five million sounds about right. The largest aircraft Gulfstream makes, the G650, is diminutive by aircraft standards. It’s less than half the length of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s fuselage and carries 19 passengers compared to the larger jet’s 242. But prepare to board one — its clad aluminum wingtips gleaming, gangway steps to your own private flying clubhouse lowering smoothly to the tarmac — and the G650 feels immense.

See the same plane as it’s manufactured, and the dollar signs start tabulating with a different sort of logic…

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Gear Patrol Magazine: Issue Two. A full report on the Gulfstream Jet HQ is forthcoming in our upcoming Aviation Issue, June 2016.
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