[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9276]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              GULFSTREAM G650ER ADDS ANOTHER SPEED RECORD

  (Mr. CARTER of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize another 
milestone that has been achieved by the Gulfstream Aerospace 
Corporation with the G650ER airplane's most recent city-to-city record.
  This time, the aircraft and crew, which included pilots Todd Baker, 
Eric Kauber, Jon Wolfe, and flight attendant Elisa Dichiara, departed 
from the Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia, at 7:11 a.m. local time 
and landed at Los Angeles International Airport at 1:51 a.m. local 
time.
  The flight only took 12 hours and 40 minutes, with an average cruise 
speed of Mach 0.86. The record was approved by the U.S. National 
Aeronautic Association, and it will most likely be approved as a world 
record by the International Federation in Switzerland. Together, the 
Gulfstream's airplanes G650ER and its sister plane, the G650, hold more 
than 55 total world records.
  I am very proud to represent Gulfstream's facility, located in 
Savannah, Georgia, which is a world leader in private planes, one of 
Georgia's First Congressional District's largest employers and a 
constant producer of truly amazing airplanes. I congratulate them on 
their success.

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