Airbus A220 tidl. CSeries - Statustråd

Yet there are some things that simulations just can't tell you, like whether a maintenance worker can easily fit the wrench he needs to use to adjust a bolt into a gearbox.

So Bombardier decided to build the wooden mockup in the same hanger it will assemble the first test aircraft.

And the company tasked 45 of its top engineers to find 1,000 design improvements on the aircraft before it goes into production. To date, they have identified a little over 600, the company says.

"At the end of the day, these minute details will make all the difference," said François Minville, vice-president of operations for the CSeries program.

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AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes has confirmed that he is in preliminary talks to buy up to 100 Bombardier CSeries CS300 jets in a 160-seat configuration.

"We are taking this very seriously. It is an impressive aircraft and we have good feeling about it. The crew and engineers are very happy about it as well," he said after a tour of the CSeries cabin mock-up, on which the Canadian airframer electronically projected the AirAsia logo specially for the visit.

"The advantage is that the CSeries can get into a lot of airports to which we currently do not have access. And there is the price, and this looks like it could be a very affordable aircraft. We are a very big Airbus customer and so this is a very big decision."

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LN-AFG said:

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...-confirms-talks-for-100-cseries-cs300-374312/



Kan se ut som om vi muligens får en stor ordre for Bombardier. De la ut dette bildet fra Farnborough:

http://ow.ly/i/Lpmg

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Futura said:

Milde Moses 160 seter i et 130 seters fly. Et fly som er bygd for 2+3 seteløsning gjøres om til 3+3 og det settes inn en seterad til. Antakelig må det settes inn flere nødutganger også. Dette blir ikke bare trangt, men veldig trangt. Derimot kan de jo lansere en forlenget utgave, som da vil bli like lang som en 738.

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Pratt & Whitney’s (P&W’s) first production geared turbofan engine, the PW1500G for Bombardier’s CSeries aircraft, has passed a crucial blade-out test, keeping the program on track for certification in the fourth quarter.

The milestone test comes as P&W nears completion of the first shipset of engines for Bombardier’s initial CS100 flight test aircraft at Mirabel, near Montreal. “They will be delivered to Bombardier shortly,” says P&W VP-Development Programs President Bob Saia, adding that the engine program is 90% through the certification process. First flight is expected late this year or early 2013.

The blade-out evaluation, which took place in late August, was one of the two “nail-biter” tests on the road to regulatory approval, says Saia. Two more full engines will undergo endurance runs, “and one of those at the end of 150 hours will do the triple ‘red-line’ test, which is the other nail-biter.” ............................

Although acknowledging “there are some sleepless nights here,” Saia says problems encountered have been “the normal optimization you’d hope to do in a situation like this.” Despite some early issues with inadequate tip clearances and endurance of some parts, all of which he says are now corrected, Saia eplains “. . . we are tickled pink with the performance. We will hit our contractual obligations on fuel burn, weight, noise and emissions on the first Bombardier engine to enter service.”

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Bombardier admits that the maiden flight of the CSeries twinjet could slip into the first quarter of next year, but the airframer is expecting to receive the wingset for its initial flying prototype within a month.

The manufacturer, which is nearing completion of its static test CSeries airframe, has been trying to keep the programme on track for first flight by the end of this year.

Bombardier recently said final assembly of the static aircraft should be "pretty much complete" by around the end of October, to be followed by assembly of FTV-1 - the designation for the first flight-test airframe.

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L-1011 said:

Vacker kärra! Jag hoppas den blir en dundersucce för Bombardier. Detta blir också P&W stora comeback..CFM/GE borde vara nervösa. Airbus & Boeing behöver dessutom konkurrens. Jag är glad att Cseries kommer bli vanlig i Skandinavien, Malmö Aviation beställt 10.

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Bombardier has started assembling the fuselage of the first CSeries flight test vehicle (FTV-1) and begun the process of mating the wings to the static test airframe.

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Bombardier Inc. is delaying the first flight of its new C Series jet to June of next year.

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LN-AFG said:

Ellers ser jo C-series unektelig pen ut i Air Baltics farger!

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