The senior official advised the press on Monday that the plane with PD-8 engines entered flight checks, which is a vital and long-awaited step in the direction of the certification of the technologically unbiased model of the Superjet.
Whole dedication and overcoming all challenges on the a part of the producers allowed the plane to efficiently full its first flight with Russian engines, he mentioned.
In the meantime, Rostec state company reported that the flight came about in Komsomolsk-na-Amur, and was carried out by a crew consisting of take a look at pilots Dmitry Demenev, Igor Grevtsev and flight operator Maxim Grukanov.
The plane was within the air for about 40 minutes, reached a pace of 500 kilometers per hour and an altitude of three,000 meters, then efficiently returned to the airfield, Rostec famous.
The air company additionally famous that the plane demonstrated secure operation, whereas the gas-dynamic stability of the engines was assessed as passable.
Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov mentioned there may be nonetheless numerous work to do and introduced that one other all-Russian plane with PD-8s will be a part of the certification flight checks in April.
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