Aircraft
Gulfstream G500 Flights Focus on Flutter
G500 accrues more than 40 hour hours as the modified aircraft returned to sky to test flutter.
Gulfstream’s G500 prototype resumed flight tests after being modified with a spin recovery parachute and flutter vanes on the winglets and tail to prepare for flutter testing. (Photo: Gulfstream Aerospace)
Gulfstream’s G500 prototype resumed flight tests after being modified with a spin recovery parachute and flutter vanes on the winglets and tail to prepare for flutter testing. (Photo: Gulfstream Aerospace)

A year after the Gulfstream G500 rolled out under its own power at a new production building dedicated to the G500/600 program, the facility has remained busy, with the first five G500s nearly complete and work “well under way” for the G600.


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