Irkut Completes MC-21 Static Trials With Heavy Touchdown Test

TsAGI
MC-21 prototype conducts static tests in TsAGI.
Credit: TsAGI
Russia’s Irkut Corporation has completed the static trials of its MC-21 narrowbody commercial airliner. The last stage of trials—which took place at the TsAGI Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute in Zhukovsky, near Moscow—focused on the aircraft fuselage’s ability to withstand heavy touchdown, the...

Subscription Required

 

Irkut Completes MC-21 Static Trials With Heavy Touchdown Test is published in Aviation Daily, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN membership.

Already a member of AWIN or subscribe to Aviation Daily through your company? Login with your existing email and password

Not a member?  Learn how to access the market intelligence and data you need to stay abreast of what's happening in the air transport community.