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Irkut Shows New MC-21 Airliner

posted by janrinok on Thursday June 09 2016, @06:27PM   
from the new-competition dept.

butthurt writes:

Russia's Irkut Corp. has shown, in its Irkutsk factory, the first completed MC-21 jetliner. It may be built in versions that carry about 130 to 211 passengers.

The company hopes to commence flight testing by the end of the year. As shown, the aircraft had a pair of Pratt & Whitney PurePower PW1400G-JM geared turbofan engines, but when manufacturing begins in earnest, it may be equipped with the Russian-built Aviadvigatel PD-14, which is still in testing.

The aircraft is scheduled to mark its first flight in 2017 and is planned be handed over to its first customers in 2019-20.

The МС-21 family includes two aircraft with a high degree of design commonality. МС-21-200 designed for 132 to 165 passengers and МС-21-300 designed for 163 to 211 passengers.

Coverage:

• Business Insider
• TASS (owned by Russian government)
• Air Transport World
• Aviation International News
• Sputnik News (sponsored by Russian government; has video)
• Defenseworld.net (Tor-friendly copy)
• ChannelNewsAsia
• Pravda.ru

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• MC-21? MC-21? (Score: 1, Funny) by tractatus_techno_philosophicus on Thursday June 09 2016, @06:37PM

  by tractatus_techno_philosophicus (6130) on Thursday June 09 2016, @06:37PM (#357448)

  A better name than MC-21 would be Jetty McJetface.

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• Re:MC-21? (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday June 09 2016, @06:52PM

  by bob_super (1357) on Thursday June 09 2016, @06:52PM (#357459)

  Let's all hope it never gets renamed Crashy McCrashFace.

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• Re:MC-21? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @07:40PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2016, @07:40PM (#357477)

  OG-21?

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