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Old 26th February 2016, 11:06 AM
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Embraer says its new E2 family of jets is on track to make its maiden flight in the second half of 2016 after the first E190-E2 rolled out of the company’s Sao Jose dos Campos facility in Brazil overnight (Australian time).

The rollout ceremony was attended by thousands of invited guests, media, suppliers and company employees.

Powered by two Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower geared turbofan engines, the E190-E2 also features new aerodynamically advanced, high-aspect ratio, distinctively shaped wings, improved systems and avionics, including fourth generation full fly-by-wire flight controls.

The raft of improvements were expected to result in double-digit reductions in fuel and maintenance costs compared with the current E-jet family. From an environmental perspective, the new aircraft will also produce less emissions and less noise.

The E2 family of jets features three models – the E175-E2 which seats 80-90 passengers, the E190-E2 (97-114 seats) and the E195-E2 (120-144 seats). The aircraft will also have a new interior with larger overhead bins and a new first class concept, among other interior improvements.

The first E190-E2 will be one of four aircraft used in the certification program, with flight tests expected to start by August and entry into service expected in 2018. Two more flight test aircraft will be added for the E195-E2 (entry into service 2019) and a further three frames for the E175-E2 (entry into service 2020).

Our second generation of commercial aircraft came to be part of the Embraer's history of innovation. #E2RollOut pic.twitter.com/0Ye8V3n6Gh

— Embraer (@embraer) February 25, 2016

“The rollout held today marks the completion of the assembly of the first E190-E2 and paves the way for the start of the tests that will lead to the first flight,” Embraer Commercial Aviation senior vice president for operations Luís Carlos Affonso said in a statement.

“We are delighted to reach this phase of the program, considering all of the technical and economic objectives set out at its inception.”

Since it was launched at the Paris Airshow in 2013, the E2 has secured 267 firm orders and 373 options and purchase rights, Embraer said. The current E-jets are flown by about 70 customers in 50 countries, including Airnorth, Cobham, Jetgo and Virgin Australia in this part of the world.
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Old 26th February 2016, 01:30 PM
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You would think that an aviation magazine such as Australian aviation would appreciate the difference between an "ejet" and an "erj"

Being picky I know, but jetgo do not operate ejets, they operate erj's. Ejets being the marketing name for the 170/190 family of aircraft. A completely different beast to the erj, which is just a tarted up Brasilia with jet engines.

That all said the e2 series looks interesting, I hope the PW geared engine has better economics than the cf34 because despite being a scaled cfm56 (the -10 series anyway) the cf34 is quite an expensive engine to operate, though in fairness it hasn't had the years of operation that the cfm56 and may well become significantly cheaper to operate as it mature as a platform.
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Old 26th February 2016, 05:02 PM
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You would think that an aviation magazine such as Australian aviation would appreciate the difference between an "ejet" and an "erj".
Given the above article has not mention of ERJ, you lost me
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Old 26th February 2016, 05:15 PM
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Exactly! The article said that jet go were an operator of ejets. They are not. That was my point
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Old 26th February 2016, 05:39 PM
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Cheers, I missed that in the above excerpt not realising it was abridged.
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Old 1st April 2017, 12:18 PM
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Embraer E195-E2 completes first flight

Embraer’s E195-E2 has commenced its flight test program with a successful maiden flight at the company’s Sao Jose dos Campos facility.

The largest variant of the E2 family of regional jets, powered by two Pratt & Whitney PurePower geared turbofan engines, took off at 1122 local time on March 29 and flew for two hours, Embraer said in a statement.

The flight tested the aircraft’s performance, flight quality, systems behaviour such as autopilot, fly-by-wire in direct mode and the landing gear retraction.

Pilots Márcio Brizola Jordão and José Willi Pirk were at the controls, accompanied by flight engineers Celso Braga de Mendonça and Mario Ito.

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