Good News for Once?

[gutshotdraw]

With apologies to Fischman, this airplane is going to be AWESOME:

http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/g650-slips-surly-bonds-at-mach-0995-25927/

The economy may be in a ditch but at least one company is looking to the future and developing a product that will OWN the market for long-range corporate aircraft.

 

[DieselDragRacer]

Sweet

 

[glasspilot]

I hear a new group, NetJet Trans-sonic (NJT), is being formed to fly them. Of course they will be non-union and outside the CBA.

 

[gutshotdraw]

That didn't take long.

 

[Pervis]

Ignore the idiot in the bleachers.

 

[glasspilot]

Sheesh, tough crowd.

 

[OPECJet]

I thought it was good.

 

[fischman]

With apologies to Fischman, this airplane is going to be AWESOME:

http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/g650-slips-surly-bonds-at-mach-0995-25927/

The economy may be in a ditch but at least one company is looking to the future and developing a product that will OWN the market for long-range corporate aircraft.

No apology is necessary. It is lonely at the top, and having something else awesome in this world is welcome.

 

[wolfpackpilot]

one company is looking to the future and developing a product that will OWN the market for long-range corporate aircraft.

I would argue they've owned the market since 1974. Nothing comes close to the performance of a Gulfstream.

 

[johnsonrod]

Pretty cool. Any discussion as to whether Netjets will order the G650? Is it too early in the bad economic cycle to assume that? Anyone know how many outstanding orders currently for the G650?