On Friday, the second prototype MS-21-300, involved in the flight test program, He made a nonstop flight from Irkutsk to the town of Zhukovsky, Moscow region, the press service of the United Aircraft Corporation (OAK).
Planting carried out at the airport LII. Gromova. The flight lasted 6 hours. The aircraft commander - Test Pilot 1 Class Vasily Sevastyanov (OKB im. Yakovlev).
According to Sevastyanov, the flight was in normal mode, All aircraft systems were working properly, without crashing.
Recall, Flight tests of the second MS-21-300 began in May of this year at the airport of Irkutsk Plant (part of the "Irkut" corporation). The total duration of the flight from the factory airfield was about 14 hours. During the tests, the aircraft reached an altitude of 12 km, speed - 850 km / h.
During the flight confirmed by the handling characteristics and stability of the vessel and issued with landing gear retracted, as well as with different configurations of the wing mechanization.
Calibration of height and speed measurement systems was carried out to meet the real values.
Tested engines work in different modes,, including those carried off and start-up of the power plant in the air. Check the operation of other aircraft systems.
The following test steps both MS-21-300 will be held in Moscow on the basis of OKB flight test facility they. Yakovlev.
