The aircraft conducted the mission, Operation Gateway, in the North Indian Ocean and South China Sea, taking off from Royal Malaysian Air Force Base Butterworth.
A new railway line from Avalon Airport to Melbourne costing only a fraction of the contentious Rail Link project is being touted by David Fox as the perfect solution to the ongoing dispute.
Following a recent scientific mission in a heavily-modified Gulfstream G550 (pictured), German pilot Marc Puskeiler talks to the Australian Aviation podcast about measuring the atmosphere and what it was like to fly this unique aircraft.