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Cessna to Gulfstream:
You Talk the Talk,
But Will You Walk the Walk?
Gulfstream has landed plenty of headlines in the last few months with their recently announced G650. With its rollout still years away, the plane’s order book is already filled up until the second half of the next decade. And why not? When the business jet manufacturer delivers their new flagship plane starting in 2012, the G650 will be the crème de la crème of business jets: the fastest, furthest flying civil aviation craft on the market.
Cessna president Jack Pelton, speaking at the Farnborough Air Show, isn’t buying the hype though. Before he relinquishes the speed crown Cessna has won with its Citation X, he argued, Gulfstream should actually build the plane first. After all it’s one thing to have your plane on a drawing board somewhere and claim it will be the fastest, it’s another thing altogether to build it have it be so.
Even if Gulfstream does manage to take the speed title (plans call for a top speed of Mach 0.925 for the G650, a smidgeon faster than the Citation X’s Mach 0.92) Pelton is adamant that Cessna will compete to be the world’s fastest, telling reporters “Today were are still the fastest and if Gulfstream achieve what they say the are going to do then we will one-up them. We are not going to rest on this one!”
Both Cessna and Gulfstream may have their hands full if plans go forward for Aerion’s supersonic business jet. Aerion is currently looking for a manufacturer for their jet design, whose top speed of Mach 1.4 would easily trump current Gulfstream and Cessna designs.
http://jets.halogenguides.com/artic...-you-talk-the-talk-but-will-you-walk-the-walk
You Talk the Talk,
But Will You Walk the Walk?
Gulfstream has landed plenty of headlines in the last few months with their recently announced G650. With its rollout still years away, the plane’s order book is already filled up until the second half of the next decade. And why not? When the business jet manufacturer delivers their new flagship plane starting in 2012, the G650 will be the crème de la crème of business jets: the fastest, furthest flying civil aviation craft on the market.
Cessna president Jack Pelton, speaking at the Farnborough Air Show, isn’t buying the hype though. Before he relinquishes the speed crown Cessna has won with its Citation X, he argued, Gulfstream should actually build the plane first. After all it’s one thing to have your plane on a drawing board somewhere and claim it will be the fastest, it’s another thing altogether to build it have it be so.
Even if Gulfstream does manage to take the speed title (plans call for a top speed of Mach 0.925 for the G650, a smidgeon faster than the Citation X’s Mach 0.92) Pelton is adamant that Cessna will compete to be the world’s fastest, telling reporters “Today were are still the fastest and if Gulfstream achieve what they say the are going to do then we will one-up them. We are not going to rest on this one!”
Both Cessna and Gulfstream may have their hands full if plans go forward for Aerion’s supersonic business jet. Aerion is currently looking for a manufacturer for their jet design, whose top speed of Mach 1.4 would easily trump current Gulfstream and Cessna designs.
http://jets.halogenguides.com/artic...-you-talk-the-talk-but-will-you-walk-the-walk
