Bombardier’s Global 7500 jet achieves 150th speed record

Bombardier (BDRBF) announced that its Global 7500 business jet just notched a new performance milestone with its 150th speed record. The latest achievements attained by the aircraft include key city pair speed records, such as Tokyo to Los Angeles, Toronto to Paris, New York to London and Hong Kong to Montreal. What’s more, the aircraft averaged a speed in excess of 1,000 km/hr on 20 of its record-setting missions, bringing passengers to their destinations in record time. Earlier achievements on the Global 7500 include the longest flight ever recorded in business aviation – an 8,225 nautical mile flight from Sydney to Detroit – as well as the industry’s longest range non-stop mission from London City Airport to Los Angeles.