Progress Report

• Aircraft Visual model for FS X SP 2 finished. Custom modeling and texturing using all of the latest features of FS X are well underway.
• Systems modeling well underway
• Virtual cockpit almost finished
• 2D cockpit artwork completed - gauge and instrument production underway
• Documentation research completed. Document production underway

The Jetstar will be our next release. We anticipate release in early summer. Progress reports will continue. If you would like to receive our newsletter updates on the Jetstar click here.

General specifications: 

Weight - 42,500 pounds.

Crew: two pilots & typically one flight attendant

Capacity: 8-10 passengers

Length: 60 ft 5 in (18.42 m)

Wingspan: 54 ft 5 in (16.60 m)

Height: 20 ft 5 in (6.23 m)

Wing area: 542 ft² (50.4 m²)

Empty weight: 25,250 lb (11,477 kg)

Max takeoff weight: 44,500 lb (20,227 kg)

Powerplant: 4× Garrett TFE-731-3 turbofans

Performance

Maximum speed: 575 mph (920 km/h)

Range: 2,866 miles (4,585 km)

Service ceiling: 43,000 ft (13,135 m)

Wing loading: 82.1 lb/ft² (401.3 kg/m²)

Interior:

Seating for 8 to 10 with a full-sized lavatory. The JetStar is one of the few aircraft of its class that allowed a person to walk upright in the cabin,

The JetStar is perhaps best known to the public as the private jet featured in the James Bond film Goldfinger.

The Lockheed L-1329 JetStar is a business jet produced from the early 1960s through the 1970s. It was the first dedicated business jet to enter service in 1957. It was also the largest and most comfortable for many years, and continues to be in service as one of the larget corporate/private jets available.

The JetStar is typically configured in the  characteristic business jet layout, with a swept wing and a T-tail, large fuel tanks wing slats along the front of the wing outboard of the fuel tanks. Trim is provided by pivoting the entire vertical stabilizer. A speed brake is located on the underside of the fuselage.