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Stealthy Development: the G500/600

A peek inside the development process that allowed Gulfstream not only to announce the G500 but also to roll out the first airplane the same day.

The G500 integration test facility features a flyable cockpit where pilots can test all of the new features, such as touchscreen-controlled avionics and the new active control sidesticks. Engineers can see exactly what pilots are doing on large-screen monitors that replicate cockpit displays.

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

April 25, 2015

Last October’s simultaneous announcement and rollout of the G500 was a memorable milestone in a program that began many years earlier as the germ of an idea in the fertile minds of a group of forward-looking Gulfstream designers. Clearly there would be a hole in the Gulfstream lineup between the then-gestating G650 flagship and the mature G450 and G550. Various concepts winnowed through the process, and what became the G500 and G600 grew from a conceptual drawing to a new jet line that could be presented to potential buyers. Behind the scenes, it became a full-blown program that spread into almost every sector of Gulfstream’s far-flung operations, from company leadership and designers and engineers to production planners, test pilots, maintainers, marketers and suppliers–everyone involved in bringing a new airplane to life.

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