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Yak-130 aircraft: the tests with upgrade system flight-control by the week

Moscow, Russia - Following the grounding of the whole fleet due to an accident, the upgrade will be installed on all the models of the series

The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Viktor Bondarev had already announced, informally, that the flights of the fleet Yak-130 (Nato reporting name “Mitten”) would be able to fly again starting from July. These aircraft were grounded after an accident in Astrakhan (the southern oblast of European Russia) the last 15th of April, when a model crashed down due to a malfunction of the aircraft’s control syste...

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Rome, Italy, 07/15/2014 17:12
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