Gulfstream G500 Fly-By

The Gulfstream G500 recently continued a longtime flight-test tradition when it performed a tower fly-by at the Brunswick, Georgia, Golden Isles Airport. The effort, which is fondly referred to as a tower fly-by even when there’s no control tower to actually fly by, is used to calibrate the trailing cone. The aircraft completes a number of low-altitude passes 300 feet over the runway at various airspeeds. Once calibrated, the trailing cone is used in flight testing as the reference source for static pressur