News Bombardier CSeries performs maiden flight

[Fabri91]

The first new narrowbody passenger jet in a long time finally performed its first flight today.

CSeries takes off on maiden flight

After months of delays and build-up, Bombardier’s first CSeries flight test vehicle has finally lifted off, departing runway 06 around 09:55 on a cool morning at Montreal's Mirabel airport.
A crowd of hundreds of mostly Bombardier employees gathered along the runway cheered as the aircraft became airborne – its Pratt & Whitney PW1500G geared turbofan engines nearly inaudible from a few hundred feet away.

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[Cosmic Penguin]

We've got another lovely girl up in the air!

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

I like it, very nice looking plane :thumbup:

 

[Mantis]

Beautiful aircraft. Said to be no louder than a turbo-prop and 20% more fuel efficient than other aircraft of it's class. Apparently, they used a very high percentage of advanced composite materials in it's construction.

 

[Keatah]

Jets are getting more and more quiet.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Huh. not much of a rotation at liftoff.

 

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