Wings Over the Atlantic

At forty-three thousand feet above the Atlantic Ocean, the midnight sky was an endless expanse of velvet blackness studded with cold, distant stars. Inside the bespoke cabin of Sheikh Al-Mansoor’s private Gulfstream G700, the atmosphere was thick with quiet luxury and dangerous, unacknowledged tension. The aircraft was configured not as a standard corporate jet, but as a flying palace: cream hand-stitched Connolly leather club chairs, burled walnut bulkheads, a private…