Luxury jet sets new air speed record from Capital to Beijing

[GM]

A NEW world speed record has been claimed by a luxury jet flying between
Edinburgh and the Chinese capital Beijing.

The Gulfstream plane completed the journey in just eight hours, 47 minutes
- around half the time it can take on a commercial flight via London.

The special charter flight from Edinburgh took place to demonstrate the
£23 million luxury jet plane's performance for potential buyers. Four
passengers, thought likely to be ultra-rich businessmen with links in
China, were on board.

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1930222006
©2007 Scotsman.com

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[Jim Mason]

In article <4599ae09$0$8746$***@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>,
***@gmx.net says...
> A NEW world speed record has been claimed by a luxury jet flying between
> Edinburgh and the Chinese capital Beijing.
>
> The Gulfstream plane completed the journey in just eight hours, 47 minutes
> - around half the time it can take on a commercial flight via London.

Quite a record!

Jim
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[GM]

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:05:59 +0000, Jim Mason wrote:

> In article <4599ae09$0$8746$***@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>,
> ***@gmx.net says...
>> A NEW world speed record has been claimed by a luxury jet flying between
>> Edinburgh and the Chinese capital Beijing.
>>
>> The Gulfstream plane completed the journey in just eight hours, 47 minutes
>> - around half the time it can take on a commercial flight via London.
>
> Quite a record!

Perhaps paving the way for commercial services between the two Capitals in
the future (with a little help from the RDF).

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[Joe Curry]

The message <***@gmx.net>
from GM <***@gmx.net> contains these words:


> > Quite a record!

> Perhaps paving the way for commercial services between the two Capitals in
> the future (with a little help from the RDF).

The relevance to alt.travel.scotland.air being?

[GM]

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:58:05 +0000, Joe Curry wrote:

> The message <***@gmx.net>
> from GM <***@gmx.net> contains these words:
>
>
>> > Quite a record!
>
>> Perhaps paving the way for commercial services between the two Capitals in
>> the future (with a little help from the RDF).
>
> The relevance to alt.travel.scotland.air being?

The two Capitals being Edinburgh and Beijing (you conveniently snipped
that part); I'll leave it to you to work out which one is relevant to
Scotland, Major.

[There was also a clue in the mention of the RDF - that's the Scottish
Executive's Route Development Fund - but being terminally clueless, you're
excused for not knowing that]

Since you asked the same question on both newsgroups, I'm cross-posting
the reply; the benefits of cross-posting have been explained to you
numerous times, I won't waste my time explaining again.

By all means make an arse of yourself by complaining to ***@plus.net
Don't forget to include full header, mind.

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[Joe Curry]

The message <***@gmx.net>
from GM <***@gmx.net> contains these words:

> Since you asked the same question on both newsgroups, I'm cross-posting
> the reply; the benefits of cross-posting have been explained to you
> numerous times, I won't waste my time explaining again.

alt.travel.scotland.air's charter forbids crossposting

The guidelines of alt.airports.uk.humberside also forbids crossposting

> By all means make an arse of yourself by complaining to ***@plus.net

On the contrary tis you doing that to both yourself and plusnet.

I doubt the latter will relish their involvement.

Have a good day..