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Bombardier’s CSeries Aircraft Completes Historic First Flight
Under perfect weather conditions, Bombardier Aerospace celebrated the successful first flight of its CSeries aircraft today, a major milestone in the company’s highly anticipated development program that will provide operators with an all-new family of aircraft specifically designed for the 100- to 149-seat market segment. The maiden flight marks the start of the CSeries aircraft’s flight test program leading up to the first customer delivery, and was also the first flight for Pratt & Whitney’s new Geared Turbofan™ PurePower engine as part of an aircraft certification program.
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Those Geared Turbofans certainly have a unique sound to them on takeoff, they seem quiet but that might just be down to some trickery in the editing process?