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Wheels up and ready to go! ✈️🌍As a contract pilot, my mission is simple: getting you where you need to be, exactly when ...
04/28/2026

Wheels up and ready to go! ✈️🌍
As a contract pilot, my mission is simple: getting you where you need to be, exactly when you need to be there. Today, it’s the Gulfstream G280—a powerhouse that balances transcontinental range with the agility to land at smaller, more convenient airports.
Whether it’s a last-minute business pivot or a long-awaited escape, I provide the flexibility and expertise to ensure your flight is seamless, safe, and sophisticated. The world is getting smaller, and the G280 is the perfect way to see it.
Where to next? My bags are packed and the flight deck is ready. 💼🥂
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Lindbergh and his team completed survey flights around this date before officially inaugurating the mail service on Apri...
04/10/2026

Lindbergh and his team completed survey flights around this date before officially inaugurating the mail service on April 15, 1926.

In his chief pilot role, Lindbergh oversaw the preparations and in a de Haviland DH-4 flew the route connecting Lambert Field, in St. Louis, to Maywood Field, in Chicago, with stops in Springfield and Peoria.

Lindbergh achieved ninety-nine percent airmail delivery efficiency even without proper equipment and landing facilities.

https://global360aviation.com/charles-lindberg-became-the-chief-pilot-for-robertson-aircraft-corporation/

RVSM is an aviation standard that reduces the required vertical separation between aircraft from 2,000 feet to 1,000 fee...
03/27/2026

RVSM is an aviation standard that reduces the required vertical separation between aircraft from 2,000 feet to 1,000 feet between flight levels FL290–FL410. This effectively doubled the number of usable cruising altitudes, improving airspace capacity and fuel efficiency.

Phase 1 was essentially a controlled trial (operational evaluation) to validate safety, aircraft performance, and monitoring systems before wider adoption. It applied initially to flight levels FL330–FL370 (33,000–37,000 ft), was conducted in North Atlantic Minimum Navigation Performance Specification (MNPS) airspace, and only specially equipped and approved aircraft were allowed to participate.

https://global360aviation.com/reduced-vertical-separation-minima-rvsm-phase-1/

In 1959, Garlow was flying a jet-prop Vickers Viscount, which Capital Airlines first put into service on July 26, 1955. ...
03/13/2026

In 1959, Garlow was flying a jet-prop Vickers Viscount, which Capital Airlines first put into service on July 26, 1955. Garlow’s record was described as “a million miles of jet flying,” even though the aircraft had propellers, because in the late 1950s, turboprops like the Viscount were widely marketed as “jet-prop” or turbine aircraft since they used Rolls-Royce Dart jet-derived turbine engines rather than piston engines.

https://global360aviation.com/first-pilot-to-fly-a-million-miles-in-a-jet-airplane/

On February 27, 1920, Schroeder reached a world-record height of 33,114 feet in a LePere airplane fitted with a General...
02/27/2026

On February 27, 1920, Schroeder reached a world-record height of 33,114 feet in a LePere airplane fitted with a General Electric turbo-supercharger.
When he removed his goggles to change oxygen flasks in order to continue breathing in the rarified atmosphere, the minus 63 degree air temperature immediately froze his eyeballs. Schroeder passed out from the lack of oxygen and carbon monoxide poisoning and the LePere plummeted nearly six miles in two minutes. However, at the very last moment, he regained consciousness and pulled the plane from its dive. Although he was almost totally blind, Schroeder was able to locate McCook Field and land safely.

https://global360aviation.com/?p=5913&preview=true

The 52Bs launched from Castle AFB, California at 1:00 PM, and landed at March AFB, California. The flights were complet...
01/16/2026

The 52Bs launched from Castle AFB, California at 1:00 PM, and landed at March AFB, California. The flights were completed at an average speed of 534 miles per hour (859 kilometers per hour) and required multiple in-flight aerial refuelings to stay airborne.

In-flight aerial refueling (AAR) transfers fuel between two aircraft mid-air, extending range and endurance, using methods like the fast flying boom (for large jets) or the simpler probe-and-drogue (hoses for fighters/helicopters). This dangerous, skill-intensive operation requires close formation flying (under 100 feet) and precise communication between tanker (fuel provider) and receiver (fuel recipient) crews, acting as "gas stations in the sky" for global military reach.



https://global360aviation.com/?p=5894&preview=true

One more contract trip before Christmas
12/24/2025

One more contract trip before Christmas

On November 21, 2005, Gulfstream Aerospace announced that a Gulfstream G550 had set three speed records. The first of th...
11/21/2025

On November 21, 2005, Gulfstream Aerospace announced that a Gulfstream G550 had set three speed records. The first of the two trips began on October 28 when the G550’s took off from Seoul, South Korea, at 6:04 p.m., flew nonstop, and landed a in Teterboro, NJ, 13 hours and 45 minutes later. The flight achieved the 19th G550 city-pair speed record.

The same G550 aircraft set two more city-pair records. On the first leg of a subsequent trip, that began on October 29, the G550 took off from San Francisco, CA at 8:12 a.m. local time on Oct. 29, flew nonstop, and landed 12 hours and 35 minutes later at Seoul at 12:47 p.m. local time the next day. The flight achieved the 20th G550 city-pair speed record. Then, on the trip’s return flight, the G550 took off from Beijing, China at 3:26 p.m. local time, and landed 12 hours and 55 minutes later in Bedford, MA at 3:21 p.m. local time. The flight achieved the 21st G550 city-pair speed record.

https://global360aviation.com/gulfstream-g550-set-three-transcontinental-speed-records-between-cities-in-asia-and-the-united-states-of-america/



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The company Firma Rheintalwerke G. Basten, from which the "B" in the original designation is derived, manufactured the f...
11/08/2025

The company Firma Rheintalwerke G. Basten, from which the "B" in the original designation is derived, manufactured the first two prototypes.

In 1972 Pilatus bought the manufacturing licence for the B-4 and renamed it the B4-PC11. In the spring of the same year the first production example (numbered HB-1100) made its first flight. About 300 were produced beginning in 1972 until the Japanese company Nippi bought the rights to the design.

https://global360aviation.com/the-first-maiden-flight-of-the-first-prototype-of-the-b4/

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