Retrospective 20/Twenty: The Grumman Gulfstream

Credit: Mark Malone
At the end of World War II, Leroy Grumman, co-founder of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., espoused the radical idea of using his company, then famous for the Wildcats, Hellcats and Avengers that had just helped save the world, to build an aircraft designed expressly for the conveyance of small...
Fred George

Fred formerly was senior editor and chief pilot with Business & Commercial Aviation and Aviation Week's chief aircraft evaluation pilot. He has flown left seat in virtually every turbine-powered business jet produced in the past three decades.

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