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The A-319 flies high thanks to V2500 engines

Beijing, China - Test shows the possibility to operate at Tibetan airports

It has been a challenging test that one performed Thursday and Friday of the last week from an Airbus 319, that landed and then took off repeatedly from the airports located in the world's highest altitudes, constructed in the Tibet Autonomous Region. They have been demonstration flights, in order to show the airworthiness of the A-319 that in this occasion was powered from the V2500 engines produced...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 48396
Rome, Italy, 07/28/2003 17:15
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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