The Bombardier Global 7500 Needs Hardly Any Runway to Take Off

GE’s Passport engines help Bombardier’s new Global 7500 to take off using only 5,800 feet at maximum takeoff weight, but much less when flying light. The aircraft needed only a fraction of the 11,800-foot-long runway at Stewart International Airport (SWF), a former U.S. Air Force base in New York, during a demo flight for AIN on a gusty, bumpy winter day.