I'd like to share a few fun facts about this $30M private jet.
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Indigenous-owned Air Creebec already owns 20 Dash-8s and I'm sure would be delighted to offer a very affordable charter contract to the province in order to pimp one up for VIP travel and dedicate it to the province just like CargoJet pimped up one of their 767s for Drake.
But. . . . Doug Ford might still be stinging from his 2019 scandal where he wanted to spend $50k pimping up an OPP Sprinter van for his official road trips.
@oration Air Creebec is an amazing name. I love it.
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@oration He did not buy it to travel Ontario.
Wouldn’t it suck if someone started tracking the plane’s tailsign and published every single trip it did on a page for everyone to see?
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RE: https://disabled.social/@MikeImBack/116420391595617233
I'd like to share a few fun facts about this $30M private jet. . . . it would require a 50% runway length extension to takeoff from Toronto City Center Island Airport. It can't operate on the gravel runways in Northern communities like a Dash-8 can, which costs $26M less.
My brother lives 1,000km North in a fly-in community. That's a 1:15 travel time in this jet, and 1:30 travel time in a Dash-8. A round-trip would burn about $10,000 in gas for this jet, and about $6,000 for the Dash-8.
@oration Ahh, is this why he wants the island airport expanded
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@crispius We definitely need that!
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@oration Ahh, is this why he wants the island airport expanded
@z3r0fox I do not believe that his currently-proposed runway extension will be extensive enough to extend for this particular jet, I do not think he is that good at planning.
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@z3r0fox I do not believe that his currently-proposed runway extension will be extensive enough to extend for this particular jet, I do not think he is that good at planning.
@z3r0fox - The island airport runway is currently 1,216m in length. The Challenger 650 requires 1,720m, and Canadian regulations require an additional 900m of safety extension at each end of a jet runway.
The island runway would have to grow from 1,216m to a minimum of 3,520m for a Challenger 650 to safely operate.
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Ontario airports with runways that can handle a Challenger 650: Pearson, Ottawa, Hamilton, North Bay, Windsor, Thunder Bay, and *maybe* Timmins with the right winds and weather.
@oration Sudbury, Sault St. Marie...still...it's a plane with 7500km range, 14 passengers, and needs 6500ft to takeoff... where TF in the US does Ford expect to be flying it? California? Toronto-Washington is 850km.
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@oration Sudbury, Sault St. Marie...still...it's a plane with 7500km range, 14 passengers, and needs 6500ft to takeoff... where TF in the US does Ford expect to be flying it? California? Toronto-Washington is 850km.
@johnefrancis Example recent trip: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-texas-trip-9.7145909
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@johnefrancis Example recent trip: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-texas-trip-9.7145909
@oration 2100km, still pretty short for a CL-650. Maybe Ford is planning to drum up bidness in Dakar or Zagreb or Rio? Maybe he's planning to flee to Moscow.
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