Page 8 - Volume 20 Number 9

N525CJ, the CitationJet prototype, waits for its first flight, with test boom attached to the nose.
for the first flight. After lunch, the ominous weather showed little sign of abating, so the crowd was reluctantly dismissed. That was, of course, the opportunity the
meteorological spirits had been waiting for; by late afternoon, the requisite breaks appeared in the overcast and the drizzle dried up. At 5:35 p.m., test pilots Bob Leonard and Bob Carnahan lifted off in N525CJ for a quick hop up to 10,000 feet, out to the Cheney test area west of Wichita, where they would check handling and trim, engine response, gear and flap extensions, speed brake effectiveness and an approach to a stall, keeping the IAS down to 180 knots. As expected, all went well; a Citation V flew chase during the flight, just in case.
Milton Sills, Vice President of Engineering, explained the development and features of the new CitationJet.
Roy Norris,
Vice President of Marketing, predicted a bright future for the Model 525.
6 • TWIN & TURBINE
EPTEMBER 2016
S