{"id":1514,"date":"2016-06-30T15:09:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T20:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2016-06-30T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T20:15:38","slug":"gulfstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"Gulfstream now using 3D Paint Projection Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gulfstream<\/strong>\u00a0is now using a new 3D Paint Projection Process on its aircraft. The process is used to apply custom designed\u00a0paint schemes to new and used aircraft at the site. The paint system is\u00a0located\u00a0at the\u00a0Savannah Completion Center in Georgia. The new 3D paint system allows the company\u00a0to increase the flexibility and quality of its design application. The new paint facility in Savannah was opened in\u00a0September, 2015.<\/p>\n

The paint system software is based on the Delta Sigma ProjectionWorks. That\u00a0commercial 3D software program was first used to display the location of rivets and other fasteners for aircraft manufacturers.\u00a0The system and software was then\u00a0modified\u00a0by the engineers at Gulfstream,\u00a0allowing for the paint schemes to be projected in multiple dimensions. It is designed to compensating for the airplane fuselage curvature, which eliminates\u00a0possible image distortion. With the new systems implementation, the older 2D design system has been retired.<\/p>\n

Gulfstream announces flat first quarter<\/h2>\n

General Dynamics, the parent company of Gulfstream Aerospace, reported first-quarter operating profits of $1.05 billion last May.\u00a0The only bad news was that Gulfstream plane deliveries were down.\u00a0While its\u00a0sales in the quarter were good\u00a0for large and midsize jets, deliveries were down nearly 16 percent. Sales remained strong for the flagship Gulfstream G650-ER. That\u00a0top of the line business jet\u00a0has all of its\u00a0delivery slots sold out for the next 24 months. However, there are reports that\u00a0the G650\u00a0is beginning to see a\u00a0slowdown in sales. Those\u00a0slowing sales have\u00a0forced parent General Dynamics to lower the\u00a0asking price for\u00a0the G650 to a range of around $60 to $70 million.<\/p>\n

Another\u00a0problem the company is seeing is a decline in demand for its G550 and G450 aircraft.\u00a0Customers seem to be\u00a0waiting for the newer G500 and G600\u00a0models that are\u00a0scheduled to be\u00a0delivered in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Those aircraft are starting to incur some delays that are likely to push those delivery dates out. Gulfstream\u00a0did\u00a0layoff\u00a0about\u00a01,000 direct and indirect\u00a0employees from the Savannah site at the end of 2015.<\/p>\n

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Image from\u00a0gulfstream.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gulfstream\u00a0is now using a new 3D Paint Projection Process on its aircraft. The process is used to apply custom designed\u00a0paint schemes to new and used aircraft at the site. The paint system is\u00a0located\u00a0at the\u00a0Savannah Completion Center in Georgia. The new 3D paint system allows the company\u00a0to increase the flexibility and quality of its design application. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}