David Toupin is flying high. The 30-year-old Texan is at the top of his game, with his Austin-based real estate investment and construction ventures booming.

For Toupin, however, time is money, and he was becoming ever more frustrated at life on the road, driving up to six hours one way for client meetings, wasting time in traffic snarl-ups, getting incensed at delayed or canceled commercial flights.

All that changed when he took delivery of his sleek, silver and black-striped . “What used to kill a whole day takes two hours. Now I can fly to meet a client, close a deal, and be back in Austin before most people finish lunch. It’s made the world smaller, and everything more accessible,” he explains.

Toupin’s epiphany came after getting a ride in a friend’s jet, seeing the flexibility it

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