Possible test flights 787-9 & C-Series

[Rowan McKeever]

Jon Ostrower tweeting that Bombardier C-Series hoped to fly Monday & Boeing 787-9 hoped to fly Tuesday (factory local times)... fingers crossed this plays out!

[Rowan McKeever]

BOE215 has filed a flight plan for 1700PDT, should be the JQ 787 first flight

[Rowan McKeever]

C-Series is confirmed to fly 'today'... live broadcast starts at 9.30am factory time (I think 11.30pm here?) on www.cseriesfirstflight.bombardier.com

[David Knudsen]

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.

Full Story here
Videos here

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?

[Daniel M]

Ridiculously quiet, sounded more like a PT6 engine.

I can understand now, how Porter want to use them into Toronto's city airport.