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A-321neo airplane takes to the sky for the first time

Toulouse, France - Lasted five hours and 29 minutes

The first A-321neo airplane equipped with CFM International LEAP-1A engines completed its maiden flight on February 9th from Hamburg, Germany. The aircraft, registration D-AVXB, was flown by Experimental Test Pilots Martin Scheuermann and Bernardo Saez Benito Hernandez. Accompanying them in the cockpit was Test-Flight Engineer Gérard Leskerpit and monitoring the flight’s progress were Flight-Test En...

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Rome, Italy, 02/10/2016 17:52
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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