Bombardier‘s Global 8000 is showing how much of a frontrunner it really is.
The business jet set its first speed record, flying from Montreal, Canada, to Nice, France, in just over six hours. To put that into context, the same leg on a 787 Dreamliner takes an average of 7 hours and 45 minutes.
The Global 8000 is the fastest civil aircraft since the Concorde, with an unprecedented top speed of Mach 0.95, or 627 mph. (It even went supersonic, reaching Mach 1.015 during testing in 2021.) On this record-setting flight, the aircraft took passengers, including Bombardier president and CEO Éric Martel, to the F1 Grand Prix in Monaco, demonstrating the ability to travel from city to city faster than any other business jet in the skies.
Speed aside, the Global 8000 offers an ultra-long range of 8,000 nautical miles, or nearly 17 hours, enabling travel between more city pairs than ever before. Think nonstop flights from Singapore to Los Angeles or London to Perth, for example. It is also remarkably agile, with an advanced wing design that allows it to take off and land like a light jet. It can touchdown at up to 30 percent more airports—the equivalent of more than 2,000 destinations—than its closest rival, according to Bombardier.
