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Profiles

Airline: Qantas

Aircraft: Airbus A380

Airport: Singapore Changi Airport 

Then-Gulfstream president Bill Boisture shocked a sombre and anxious convention of the National Business Aviation Association in 2002, an event that coincided with the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the USA.

It was a time of great uncertainty in the business jet market, yet Gulfstream boldly announced a dramatic shake-up.

A company that had been known until only a decade earlier as a strictly one-product business would field a family of seven aircraft, with its signature Roman-style product numbering surprisingly rebranded into a new series of three-digit categories.

Thus, the ultra-long-range (6,755nm/ 12,500km) GV-SP became the G550. The long-range (4,100nm) GIV-SP was renamed the G400. Two new aircraft with lesser performance filled in gaps around these products and were introduced as the (5,785nm-range) G500 and (3,565nm-range) G300. Continue reading about the evolution of the Gulfstream family of business jets...

Below enjoy our exclusive cutaway of Gulfstream's in-production corporate aircraft. Click on the image for a larger version to look at the fine details.

Sikorsky on 25 May reached 181kt (335km/h) with its X2 technology demonstrator. It finished the third of four phases of flight-testing that will see the dual counter-rotating rotor pusher flying at speeds up to or greater than 250kt this summer.

The twelfth flight test marked the first time the company attempted to slow the main rotor - by around 5% - while flying faster to keep the main rotors from approaching supersonic tip speeds. Continue reading...

Following up to yesterday's image of the day, which showed a G250 on the cover of Flight International, here is our exclusive cutaway of the G250.


For more of our G250 coverage, go here for information and here for photos and videos from the rollout event.

Airbus is showcasing this new-andnever-before-seen-until-now model of its A350 XWB complete with cutaway to allow you to peek inside the cabin. Continue reading... 

For more on the Aircraft Interiors show in Hamburg until Thursday... 

VIDEOS from the show...

Mary Kirby as Runway Girl blogs on the latest development on IFE and connectivity...