damn.....i would be lying if i said i wasnt jealous a bit....thats the most amazing aircraft on the market in my opinion.......all i really know about the plane is from a few engineers i know at cessna......one of cessnas first airplanes to use computational fluid dynamics in the wing design, similar to the GV....makes for an incredible high speed airfoil....ive been told by pilots its quite the lawn dart and loves to eat up runway at an alarming pace.... rumor has it that in the certifacation process the airplane broke mach 1 over western kansas......was told by engineers that the faa requires aircraft to prove they can handle .07 over max operating mach...... .92+.07=.99 so it wouldnt suprise me if the rumors are true......change the inlet design a bit and you would have an aircraft that could cruise in the 1.1 range.....simply amazing

I am not a jet pilot (yet) to know how it handles on the ground, but all the other facts are true that you mention. You can see a picture of the proto taken on the day it broke the sound barrier in the halls at Cessna, as they were quite proud of it at the time.

Any pics online? I'd like to see that!

What is a 299 ride?

A current 135 ride.

A .299 ride is simply a PIC line check. Demostrate you can navigate along a SID to a fix along an airway to a STAR all the time trying to act like you know what your doing as a Captain. That about sums it up, would everyone agree with that.

Thanks, I'm a furloughed Airline guy and only flown Part 91 since '02.