Russia´s MC-21-300 makes first test flight at Zhukovsky airfield

Polina Montag-Girmes November 03, 2017
Credit: Irkut Corp.
Irkut´s MC-21-300 test aircraft performed its first flight from the Gromov Flight Research Institute at Zhukovsky airfield in Moscow region Nov.3. “The flight lasted more than three hours,” aircraft manufacturer Irkut Corp. said in a statement. “The characteristics of stability and controllability...
Polina Montag-Girmes

Polina joined the Air Transport World team in 2011, covering Russian and the Commonwealth of Independent States. She studied journalism at Moscow State University and worked as a journalist for Russian business and airline publications since 2000.

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