New Gulfstream 250

[SurferLucas]

Dooooode, this thing looks sweet...and they got rid of the de-ice boots on the wings finally!!!

 

[TXTBOOK]

nice thumbnails, how about the full size images?

 

[OhioStatePilot]

nice thumbnails, how about the full size images?

:rotfl: I've got a pretty high resolution on my monitor... and it's a widescreen... and those pictures were HUGE!

But it does look nice!

 

[jskibo]

:rotfl: I've got a pretty high resolution on my monitor... and it's a widescreen... and those pictures were HUGE!

But it does look nice!

Yeah, kinda almost fits my triple screen setup......FFS

 

[drew09]

nice looking aircraft, does anyone know the purpose for those protruding sidewalls of the front landing gear?

 

[Swen]

Can I have my pixels back?



Ha! Good share.

 

[DPApilot]

nice looking aircraft, does anyone know the purpose for those protruding sidewalls of the front landing gear?

It's a chine. They deflect water from the engine intakes.

 

[N519AT]

I heard that they still have the boots but they just painted them silver to make them look like they belong on a jet. :dunno:

 

[SurferLucas]

Sorry y'all...

They looked smaller when I first pulled them up.

 

[TXTBOOK]

haha no problem. This made it on my desktop background

 

[t-cart]

Great looking aeroplane. Thanks for posting the pics.

 

[KSCessnaDriver]

I heard that they still have the boots but they just painted them silver to make them look like they belong on a jet. :dunno:

That's what the pictures look like to me. In the second picture, in towards the root, you can see what is clearly a heated surface, which has a polished silver look. Then, there is a dull silver color, which appears to be a painted boot.

 

[GUNIT]

Wing should be heated by bleed air. They didn't use the wing from the 200. Took a downsized variant of the 550 wing.

 

[KSCessnaDriver]

Wing should be heated by bleed air. They didn't use the wing from the 200. Took a downsized variant of the 550 wing.

Yup, after some fact checking, I'd agree with that. Just looks funny to not have it all polished up.

 

[SpiraMirabilis]

I heard that the going rate for PIC in this is $50k and you should be grateful you have a job!!!

 

[rd757]

I'm kind of disappointed they got away from the straight cockpit windows... that was a trademark Gulfstream look...

Anyway, anyone seen the new G650? It's a beast.

 

[N519AT]

I'm kind of disappointed they got away from the straight cockpit windows... that was a trademark Gulfstream look...

Well it's not an original Gulfstream plane. It was originally designed by IAI and Yakovlev OKB. It started out as the IAI Galaxy and Gulfstream/IAI started refining it first with the G200 and now the G250.

 

[DeuceOfAces]

How come it's bad to have deicing boots on a jet?

 

[WestIndian425]

Israel's engineers are pretty good! I like this aircraft, and the Astra was quite successful.