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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
(Score: 3, Informative) by turgid on Thursday June 09 2016, @08:33PM
That nice Mr Putin [youtube.com], in a characteristic selfless show of courageous intelligence and leadership, designed the MC-21 all by himself to get back at the Neo-Nazi Boeing and Airbus corporations threatening world domination and the end of democracy.
The MC-21 has top secret advanced anti-Neo-Nazi technology and is absolutely 100% heterosexual.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].