Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Bombardier’s Global 7500 has set its 150th city-pair speed record, the most to date for a single business jet type, the company announced today. The milestone was reached as the ultra-long-range twinjet established speed records in city pairs that include Tokyo to Los Angeles, Toronto to Paris, New York to London, and Hong Kong to Montreal.
On 20 of the record-breaking missions, the aircraft averaged a speed exceeding 1,000 km/hour (about 540 knots). Most of the records have been accrued in the past couple of years as the aircraft fleet spooled up. More than 200 Global 7500s are now in service, logging more than 280,000 flight hours.
In addition to speed records, the Global 7500 has notched the longest flight recorded in business aviation, travelling 8,225 nm from Sydney to Detroit, as well as the longest nonstop mission from London City Airport to Los Angeles.
“Many of these records have been set with passengers on board in varying conditions and airports, making these achievements even more meaningful and reaching this pinnacle more remarkable,” said Jean-Christophe Gallagher, executive v-p of aircraft sales and Bombardier Defense.
The Global 7500, which has a top speed of Mach 0.925 and a maximum range of 7,700 nm, soon will be succeeded by the even more capable Global 8000, which will fly at Mach 0.94 and have an 8,000-nm maximum range.

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