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Könnte man da nicht einfach mal eine Anfrage an Flight1 schreiben, ob in naher Zukunkt noch etwas mit Cessna geplant wird, oder ob man es sich zumindest vorstellen könnte?

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First Real-World Pic Of Hottest New BizJet

Few new aircraft are as anxiously awaited (or as assuredly successful) as a new Gulfstream... especially when they're updating the top-of-the-line.

Gulfstream's long-awaited new G650 has finally seen the light of day and is readying for a first flight in the not too distant future. The G650 was rolled outside last night, fired up the APU and did their first engine runs. In any test program, that's a big moment, and in this case, enough of a big moment to have someone send us a pretty cool pic of the proceedings.
The Gulfstream G650 is described as an 'ultra-large-cabin, ultra-high speed' bizjet and is hyped as being able to fly faster and farther than any traditional business aircraft. The program was inaugurated just last year and promises a bird that will carry eight passengers and a crew of four on nonstop legs of as long as 7000 nm (at long-range cruise, M.85), and still require a conservative balanced field length of some 6000 feet (MTOW, SL, ISA) -- and while boogying as fast as M.925.
Gulfstream is packing the cockpit with every asset imaginable... as the G650 comes standard with Enhanced Vision System II, Head-Up Display II and a Synthetic Vision-Primary Flight Display. The Planeview II cockpit is equipped with a Triplex Flight Management System, Automatic Emergency Descent Mode, 3-D weather radar, and Advanced Flight Controls.

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G650 rolled out in upbeat Savannah cermeony

Seven thousand employees, executives and local officials filled the aircraft's newly built final assembly building to see the first G650, T1, unveiled as it taxied into view under its own power at the company's Savannah, Georgia facility.
After shutting down the twin Rolls-Royce BR725 engines, test pilots Jake Howard and Tom Horn and flight engineer Bill Osborne joined the celebration along side company leaders.
The three men will crew the G650 on its maiden sortie this year.
Joe Lombardo, executive vice-president, General Dynamics Aerospace, says the first half of 2009 was particularly difficult for the company with a drop in demand and a political climate hostile to business aviation.
"The bad wrap has died down substantially," says Lombardo.
Lombardo says that even with the changing industry fortunes, Gulfstream holds about 200 firm orders for the $64.5 million business jet, which represents the first new cross-sectional design for the company since the GII in 1967.
Lombardo admits that the entire business jet industry was caught off guard by the rapid downturn in public opinion.
"We were caught flat-footed. There's no doubt about it no excuse for it. We found out we didn't have the right level of data to go out and talk to people in the local community, we didn't have the right level of understanding of the significance of aviation. We had anecdotal information, but it wasn't co-ordinated," says Lombardo.
As the industry has begun to move past the externality of public opinion, Gulfstream's attention remains turned inward as it prepares to fly the G650.
Gulfstream will operate a five-aircraft certification programme that will amass 1,800 flight test hours over about 18 months leading to certification in 2011 and service entry the following year. Three of the G650s will be fully instrumented, with two partially instrumented aircraft, including a fully outfitted cabin demonstrator.
Pres Henne, Gulfstream senior vice-president of programmes, engineering and test says that the G650, which is designed for a maximum cruise of Mach .925, will be tested to the point of M1.
The airframer has built three G650s to date, including two flight-test vehicles and one static test airframe that is undergoing safety testing.
T1 has undergone low-speed area taxiing as it progresses through safety of flight readiness testing. T2 is in final assembly inside the G650 final assembly line, with the panels for T3 on the line.
Lombardo says the next available delivery spot for a G650 aircraft is in 2016.