Bombardier CSeries 300 takes off on first test flight

Credit: Courtesy, Bombardier
In a sign of the increasing maturity of Bombardier’s CSeries airliner, the first test aircraft for the stretched, 135-seat CS300 variant flew for about five hours on its maiden flight from Mirabel, near Montreal, Feb. 27. Flight test vehicle (FTV) 7 is the fifth CSeries to fly. Four test aircraft...

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