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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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Original Submission

• Re:The more interesting aspect is the engine. (Score: 3, Informative) by butthurt on Friday June 10 2016, @12:32AM

  by butthurt (6141) on Friday June 10 2016, @12:32AM (#357568) Journal

  If Wikipedia is to be believed, the first turbofan engine to be flown was a geared turbofan, the Turbomeca Aspin, which was first flown in 1952.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbomeca_Aspin [wikipedia.org]

  With the same caveat, the turboprop was patented in 1929 and first ones were built around 1937.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboprop#History [wikipedia.org]

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