Originally Posted by
FrankR
From my tours of the factory, my take is that Gulfstream builds most of the fuselage in house, in Savannah.
I think they want to have a differentiated product, which is an upgrade to the 450/550. The 450 is an old dog now, and while the 550 is still a fantastic machine, it seems reasonable to make two versions as long as you're building a new bird. The 650 needs to be the big daddy, and be different from the pack, so it gets the wide body treatment.
Does having three different fuselage widths mean that three separate assembly lines are required.
How does that compare with BBD for its Global series. Can they use just one assembly line if the various Globals all have the same width.
I find it amazing that a G500 lists as over 20 million cheaper than a G650. Is the G650 really that much better?