It is impressive that they achieved an NBAA range of 6500 miles burning that much less fuel but they could have at least matched the 650ER on range.

Bizjets are allowed 240 minute ETOPS by the FAA even on a 135 ticket. Also, bizjets can land a lot more places than a 777...

Half thrust in a 650 is more than 2/3 in an 8X... However, performance doesn't reduce linearly in an engine out, thus making that a rather useless metric to measure engine out capability by.

I'm very aware of how important hot/high is to bizjets and even us piston guys... More fuel at altitude = way more range as SFC goes down a lot at altitude. That's why Dassault started with 3 engine jets back in the 70s.

This is post is just a conspiracy theory wrapped in clickbait.

biz jets do not need to follow ETOPS.

I wasn't really saying that's true... just what Dassault was thinking... The 650 has double the thrust.

1000nm less range is the part that confuses me. Why go through all the R&D of a jet only to have it be shorter legged than the competing flagship jet. A 4 thousand mile leg doesn't have the same fuel burn as doing 2, 2 thousand mile legs (for anyone not aware jets burn less fuel up high so putting in 50% fuel in a…

No. This plane is outdated already. A G650ER will do 6500NM at .90 mach and 7500NM at .85 mach... I don't understand why Dassault decided to make a slower, shorter range biz jet. And it's not to hold more people... the 8X appears to have the same NBAA 8 pax 4 crew as a G650ER but .05 mach slower and 1000 miles…

America's maritime industry has been decimated by low cost labor from Asia. Since the end of WWII and the Liberty Ship almost all of the commercial vessels have been built elsewhere. All of the ships not built for the military or brown water (tugs/barges) are built in Asia. Additionally, very few ships today are US…

I think a bigger problem than not having the capabilities combatwise needed is the fact you are taking a (admittedly fast) boat and tacking on 30 tons of armor... Jet boats are not efficient... For this boat to have any significant range it's a tanker with a torpedo launcher... Yeah it has 100,000 SHP but it burns a…

And as a polar opposite you have Connecticut starting a 'bus rapid transit system' that cost the taxpayers tens of millions for a 9.4 mile bus only highway...

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No 5 cylinder option?????

5 cylinder turbocharged you say? AWD you say?

Yes, yes it does.

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