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Bombardier aims to meet CSeries aircraft first flight deadline

Montreal, Canada - "We must focus on the entry-into-service deadline"

Bombardier plans to meet the year-end deadline for CSeries first flight by compressing a five-month final assembly process to four months. The final assembly of the first flight-test airframe (FTV-1) is scheduled to begin in September, or within four months from Bombardier first flight deadline of 1 January. According to press reports, the programme has little margin for error in its schedule. Bombardier...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1142423
Rome, Italy, 06/20/2012 16:17
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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