This is how you want to spend $65 million USD...flying in style...

[Shlong]

Pretty awesome, 65 million is even beyond most athletes' money. This thing is for straight up CEO's.

CEO's using business expense accounts or Billionaires. Because of the high maintenance costs most athletes can't afford it, Floyd Mayweather bought a used G550 (around 30 - 40 million).

 

[who?]

Does the G650 go up to 51,000 feet so you can look at the curvature of the earth? The GV could.

 

[KLin]

There's a separate compartment so a crew member can give passengers privacy and still be comfortable.

And get a hummer.

 

[kage69]

For the rest of us who aren't CEOs, Arab royalty or Taylor Swift, here is how you get to fly on these babies.

https://www.netjets.com/Home/

I've had the opportunity to ride on a number of Bombardiers and a G550. Having the meal, snacks, and drinks of your choice waiting for you on the plane is just too cool, as is being able to bring your dog and whatever dangerous things you might be using for hunting later. They pump oxygen the whole time too, which doesn't happen on commercial carriers unless you berate or beg the Capt. I don't remember the last model I was on, but remember being really impressed with the ride, and loved how there are secret little chambers built into everything. You see a rectangular cut out on this shelf next to you, push it, and it rolls away revealing chips and candy. Push another down by your feet and boom, it's loaded with cold beer. My only complaint was the size of the head. Turns you into a hunchback. No standing to take a piss or joining the mile high club in that. Not having to deal with a terminal full of people, security, then off to claim bags is pretty damn awesome though, that needs to be said!

My folks were doing a Scotland trip years ago. Going across the pond limits what plane you can reserve due to range, obviously. They decided to go all out and use the Gulfstream. They left with tail winds, and combined with the altitude and speed of the Gulfstream, made it from Maine to Scotland in some ridiculous time (forget what it was exactly). I remember my dad telling me that the pilot mentioned upon landing that the flight had been the fastest Atlantic crossing of his career, just missing a company record by minutes. Only way to do it faster would be in a Concorde. Btw, Lockheed and a company called Aerion both want to bring civilian supersonic travel back in the not too distant future! http://www.aerionsupersonic.com/

Gulfstreams rule, it's true.

 

[JMapleton]

Dianne Feinstein owns a Gulfstream G650.

Ask yourself how corrupt a civil servant has to be to have a $175K annual salary and yet own a private jet like that.

Do you just post nonsense or are you purposely ignorant? I doubt she owns a G650.

I show 10 G650s in California per FAA records:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/acftref_inquiry.aspx

I show David Geffen, Haim Saban, and Larry Ellison own G650s.

Furthermore, her husbands is a very wealthy investment banker. Worth over $50m. So if she does own one, her husband payed for it. But it is super highly unlikely they own one.

Do you not research the things you read to verify them first?

 

[madoka]

Do you just post nonsense or are you purposely ignorant? I doubt she owns a G650.

Do you not research the things you read to verify them first?

Perhaps you should have taken your own advice. Prepare to eat crow.

https://elizabethemkenussenate2012.wordpress.com/category/flying-high-on-feinsteins-private-jet/

Financial disclosure forms released last year show that Sen. Dianne Feinstein let Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Barbara Boxer hitch a ride on her private plane after they had trouble booking commercial flights because of a blizzard, reports our colleague Paul Kane. ( No evidence can be found that Feinstein travels to and from CA when conducting business “for the people.”

Since private plane travel inexplicably avoids the TSA, could her recent statement, Sen. Dianne Feinstein lauds “heavy patdowns” be more hypocritical? Feinstein’s husband’s Gulfstream G650 (Business Wire via Bloomberg News)

http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=...nne_Feinstein:_The_Power_Couple_of_California

In the case of Blum-Feinstein, we can see what being in the top 1% means. They currently own a private jet, a Gulfstream G650, worth $55 million in 2008.

https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/dianne-feinstein-thy-name-is-corruption/

Dianne Feinstein and her husband Richard Blum currently own a private jet, a Gulfstream G650, worth $55 million in 2008.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2010/06/reid_boxer_flying_high_on_fein.html

Financial disclosure forms released Wednesday show that Sen. Dianne Feinstein let Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Barbara Boxer hitch a ride Christmas Eve on her private plane after they had trouble booking commercial flights because of a blizzard, reports our colleague Paul Kane.

Stuck in D.C. by the health-care vote, the senators and Feinstein's husband, investor Richard Blum, headed to San Francisco in his Gulfstream jet. Reid and Boxer, according to the disclosure forms, accepted the flight as a gift and valued it at $3,625 after consulting the ethics staff.

So, do you just post nonsense or are you purposely ignorant? Which one are you?

 

[nsafreak]

Ppppfffffttt!! HAW! What a puny mode of transportation - who buys these tiny jets, the middle class?!

Get a private 747, or GTFO.

A private 747....wow.....I didn't know you were so.......poor. That's what I let my servants fly in. Myself I'll stick with my private A380:

 

[JMapleton]

Perhaps you should have taken your own advice. Prepare to eat crow.

https://elizabethemkenussenate2012.wordpress.com/category/flying-high-on-feinsteins-private-jet/

http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=...nne_Feinstein:_The_Power_Couple_of_California

https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/dianne-feinstein-thy-name-is-corruption/

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2010/06/reid_boxer_flying_high_on_fein.html

So, do you just post nonsense or are you purposely ignorant? Which one are you?

Show me a financial disclosure document indicating she owns this jet and I will admit you are correct.

Posting obscure right wing news blogs does not count as a credible source. Or even a self described "gossip blog" in the Washington Post. If she owns a $55m asset, it will be disclosed.

You are gullible.

I do not think Feinstein's husband can afford a G650. No one worth $50-100m spends $50m on a jet. They wouldn't be able to afford the upkeep and it would cripple them financially.

They may have chartered one (big difference) or maybe a wealthy donor lent them the jet for a trip or two.

Do you know the difference between charter and own? Or do you just believe what you want to believe?

Search the FAA records. There are 10 of them in CA. Tell me which one is hers.

 

[JMapleton]

CEO's using business expense accounts or Billionaires. Because of the high maintenance costs most athletes can't afford it, Floyd Mayweather bought a used G550 (around 30 - 40 million).

Really no current, active athletes could afford something like this without it severely straining them financially. Athletes don't make as much as people think.

 

[madoka]

Show me a financial disclosure document indicating she owns this jet and I will admit you are correct.

Posting obscure right wing news blogs does not count as a credible source. Or even a self described "gossip blog" in the Washington Post. If she owns a $55m asset, it will be disclosed.

You are gullible.

I do not think Feinstein's husband can afford a G650. No one worth $50-100m spends $50m on a jet. They wouldn't be able to afford the upkeep and it would cripple them financially.

They may have chartered one (big difference) or maybe a wealthy donor lent them the jet for a trip or two.

Do you know the difference between charter and own? Or do you just believe what you want to believe?

Search the FAA records. There are 10 of them in CA. Tell me which one is hers.

Wow, you are really doubling down on being stupid.

Bloomberg reported it. Business Wire reported it. The LA Times reported it. Her political opponent criticized her for it. It was part of Congressional disclosures. Yet you want more?

It was confirmed by her own staff:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...christmas-eve-ride-on-feinstein-husband-s-jet

Reid, a Nevada Democrat, and Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, flew to San Francisco aboard a Gulfstream jet owned by Feinstein’s husband, Richard C. Blum, chairman of Los Angeles-based CB Richard Ellis Group Inc., said Gil Duran, a spokesman for Feinstein, in an e-mail.

Sometimes I wonder, how is it that people are stupid enough to keep voting her back in.

But then I guess there's lots of people like you.

 

[JMapleton]

Here is the jet in question:

https://www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/View?Registration=N108DB&DeliveryDate=18.04.08
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N108DB

Reported as a G550 on PlaneLogger and a G650 on the FAA website. FAA shows the jet was built in 2015, but you quote websites from 2010.

I still question the ownership of the jet. Clearly it's in Blum's control but is it entirely owned by him or not, I do not know. I might be shared ownership within his company and used by himself and shared with his fellow investors and associates.

I despise Feinstein's political beliefs, but your original post implies the jet was somehow "hers" while you being ignorant of her husbands background. She is nothing more than a kept wife living well on her husbands money.

It is very unlikely she is a "crooked" politician as you imply, but out of touch and ignorant I would agree.

PS: Your horrible inability to provide any meaningful evidence to your statements besides cooky internet sites or blogs makes me think you are are still the gullible one.

 

[OutHouse]

8000 mile range? damn thats impressive.

 

[who?]

One of those sites says that it is owned by Blum Capital Partners not the man himself and it may have been purchased with a long term loan, like how Jerry Jones "owns" Cowboys stadium but has a thirty year mortgage on it.

 

[madoka]

It is very unlikely she is a "crooked" politician as you imply, but out of touch and ignorant I would agree.

PS: Your horrible inability to provide any meaningful evidence to your statements besides cooky internet sites or blogs makes me think you are are still the gullible one.

I knew I was dealing with a knucklehead when you expected to see a financial disclosure document showing ownership. Yeah, like everybody has those readily available online. I suppose you'd want to see receipts and cancelled checks next.

Yet, I indulged you in your delusional denials because I didn't think you could possibly be that stupid. But you refuse to believe the articles in LA Times, Bloomberg, Business Wire, etc. and call them "cooky" (which I assume you meant kooky). I guess in your world, it's all a giant conspiracy. So who is the one in denial? In the end, I suppose it's my fault for wasting my time arguing with an idiot.

 

[Tsavo]

8000 mile range? damn thats impressive.

Eh, it only gets 17 MPG and only has 12 different floor plans.

I'll wait for Tesla to come out with something better and more green.

 

[Ns1]

 

[master_shake_]

looking at the cockpit in that g650 i'd rather be the pilot.

 

[JackBurton]

That's beautiful.

 

[bononos]

I knew I was dealing with a knucklehead when you expected to see a financial disclosure document showing ownership. Yeah, like everybody has those readily available online. I suppose you'd want to see receipts and cancelled checks next.
.......

I he wanted to point out the difference between owning the jet outright and chartering it which costs alot less and your faulty assumption about corruption when her wealthy financier husband could have paid for 'her' jet.

 

[angminas]

I just want to get in that thing and go.

Oh, and debating whether a politician is corrupt is a sucker's game. Nearly all politicians are corrupt.

 

[Phoenix86]

Hell yes. :thumbsup:

I'm wondering why they mentioned the sheep skin pilot's seat absorbs sweat well...? If I'm flying a $65M private jet, there best be AC shooting from at least 85 different angles at me.

I wonder who's on the waiting list already?

2018 delivery date.

I'll have to be flown in this PoS G550 for another 3 years.

edit: Wait. WTF.

You fly yourself...?

I'm not sure we can be friends anymore.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

For the rest of us who aren't CEOs, Arab royalty or Taylor Swift, here is how you get to fly on these babies.

https://www.netjets.com/Home/

I've had the opportunity to ride on a number of Bombardiers and a G550. Having the meal, snacks, and drinks of your choice waiting for you on the plane is just too cool, as is being able to bring your dog and whatever dangerous things you might be using for hunting later. They pump oxygen the whole time too, which doesn't happen on commercial carriers unless you berate or beg the Capt. I don't remember the last model I was on, but remember being really impressed with the ride, and loved how there are secret little chambers built into everything. You see a rectangular cut out on this shelf next to you, push it, and it rolls away revealing chips and candy. Push another down by your feet and boom, it's loaded with cold beer. My only complaint was the size of the head. Turns you into a hunchback. No standing to take a piss or joining the mile high club in that. Not having to deal with a terminal full of people, security, then off to claim bags is pretty damn awesome though, that needs to be said!

My folks were doing a Scotland trip years ago. Going across the pond limits what plane you can reserve due to range, obviously. They decided to go all out and use the Gulfstream. They left with tail winds, and combined with the altitude and speed of the Gulfstream, made it from Maine to Scotland in some ridiculous time (forget what it was exactly). I remember my dad telling me that the pilot mentioned upon landing that the flight had been the fastest Atlantic crossing of his career, just missing a company record by minutes. Only way to do it faster would be in a Concorde. Btw, Lockheed and a company called Aerion both want to bring civilian supersonic travel back in the not too distant future! http://www.aerionsupersonic.com/

Gulfstreams rule, it's true.

ok, so what's the lowest price I can pay to move my family of 7 around in one.

 

[John Connor]

Fuck Gulfstream! They don't even allow a company to make a flight sim version of their planes because they're so tight assy. At least Boeing actually teamed up with PMDG and made my 737NG with all the bells and whistles including the FMC. In the FSX version of the PMDG 737NGX they even have a setting in the FMC to select your damn brake pads!

If I had the money I'd buy a Global 8000.

Looks like they use a Garmin G1000 variant.

General characteristics

• Crew: 2-4
• Capacity: 10-19 passengers
• Length: 111 ft 2 in (33.8 m)
• Wingspan: 104 ft 0 in (31.7 m)
• Height: 27.0 ft (8.2 m)
• Powerplant: 2 × General Electric Passport turbofans, 16,500 lbf (73.4 kN) each
• Cabin length: 54 ft 7 in (16.69 m)
• Cabin width (centerline): 8 ft 2 in (2.49 m)
• Cabin width (floorline): 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)
• Cabin height: 6.25 ft (1.91 m)
• Cabin Total Volume 2,637 ft³ (75.67 m³)

Performance

• Maximum speed: Mach .90 (516 kt, 955 km/h)
• Cruise speed: Mach .85 (487 kt, 902 km/h)
• Range: 7,300 nmi (13,520 km)
• Service ceiling: 51,000 ft (15,545 m)
• Basic Operating Weight: 56,800 lb (25,764 kg)
• Maximum Ramp Weight: 106,500 lb (48,308 kg)
• Maximum Takeoff Weight: 106,250 lb (48,194 kg)
• Maximum Zero Fuel Weight: 62,500 lb (28,350 kg)
• Maximum Fuel Weight: 47,450 lb (21,523 kg)
• Balanced field length (SL, ISA, MTOW): 5,950 ft (1,814 m)
• Landing distance (SL, ISA, MLW): 2,810 ft (856 m)

Avionics

• Bombardier Vision flight deck
• Head-Up Display System (HUD), Enhanced Vision System (EVS) and Synthetic Vision System (SVS)
• Graphical Flight Planning
• Weather radar with enhanced functionality like windshear detection

Pretty cool to have an approach plate in your ND.

 

[rudder]

Meh.... for that price I would buy a Boeing 737-800 (brand new, decked out) which, although slower, can hold 10X the hookers and blow of your Gulfstream.

 

[skyking]

I want to see the Americas, so this is my dream plane. If it is marked as a runway it can probably get in there
http://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/#10

For the local area I'd have one of these. Then it does not need to be marked as a runway.
http://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/#16

Note that the take off and landing figures include a 50 obstacle and are at gross weight. At light weights it would be a blast!

Take-off distance over 50 ft (15 m) obstacle (STOL) 1,444 ft 440 m
Landing distance over 50 ft (15 m) obstacle (STOL) 1,033 ft 315 m
Rate of climb (MTOW) 1,010 ft/min 5.13 m/sec
Max. cruise speed 125 KTAS 232 km/h
Max. range at 10,000 ft
- with underwing tanks

500 nm
870 nm 926 km
1611 km
Max. operating altitude 25,000 ft 7620 m
Stall speed
- flaps up (Vs)
- full flaps set (VSO)

58 KEAS kt
52 KEAS kt


107 km/h
96 km/h
Weights

Basic empty weight* approx 2,756 - 3,086 lb 1,250 - 1,400 kg
Max. take-off weight 6,173 lb 2,800 kg
Max. landing weight 5,863 lb 2,660 kg
Max. payload* up to approx. 2,646 lb 1,200 kg
Payload with max. fuel* up to approx. 2,381 lb 1,080 kg
*depending on configuration and fuel