Russia’s first large airliner since the descend of the Soviet Union made its maiden flight Sunday. The Irkut MC-21 is designed to compete with the most popular airliners in the world,the single-aisle Boeing 737 and Airbus A320. The prototype took flight Sunday morning from the Irkutsk Aviation Plant airfield in Siberia, approximately 2600 miles east of Moscow. During the 30-minute flight, or the plane reached an altitude of 1000 meters (roughly 3300 feet). Oleg Kononenko,the flight’s lead test pilot, […]
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