Aircraft
Gulfstream G500 Program Making Rapid Progress
Gulfstream says the G500 program is on track for certification in 2017.

Gulfstream Aerospace brought the lone flying test article of its new G500 large-cabin business jet to Las Vegas Henderson Executive Airport this week for NBAA 2015. Test pilot Scott Evans told AIN that Gulfstream has made good progress with the completely fly-by-wire aircraft. “As far as the control laws and the control law development, we are exactly where we want to be,” he reported. “We are building on something that is a known entity [the G650] to us.”

Evans, who has been with the program for six years, said that flying the G500 is virtually indistinguishable from flying the G500’s immersive flight simulator. “We've increased the visual display area in the simulator,” it makes it “kind of like Imax for airplanes,” he explained. “We've done more wind-tunnel tests on this airplane than we have done in the past.”

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