First Flight Of Russia’s SSJ-New Will Not Be Powered By PD-8 Engines
Assembly and installation of test bench elements on Russia's import-substituted version of the Superjet-100 at the Siberian Research Institute of Aviation in March of this year.
Credit: Sipa US/Alamy Stock Photo
The first flight of the import-substituted version of the Superjet 100 (SSJ100) regional jet is drawing closer, but the initial aircraft will not be equipped with the Russian-built PD-8 turbofan. Work had begun on the aircraft—dubbed SSJ-New—prior to Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but the...
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