The Japanese after 50 years produced passenger jet aircraft
Japan's first passenger jet aircraft of domestic production successfully performed a test flight on Wednesday, postponed five times, which ended a decade of development programs designed to compete with Brazilian and Canadian rivals in the global market of small aircraft.
Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries took off from the runway the airport Nagoya.
Great success
Approximately 35-meter-long twin-engine aircraft flew smoothly under the clear sky in the central part of Japan.
"It was fantastic," said the pilot Yoshiyuki Yasumura at a press conference a few hours after the end of the year.
"It's a success, indescribably happy," said Hiromichi Morimoto, owner of Mitsubishi Aircraft, a subsidiary of conglomerate Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. "You will gather the thousands of hours of test flight," he added.
Competition regional producers
The aircraft marks a new chapter in Japan's aviation sector, which is the previous commercial airliner built in 1962 - YS-11 turbo prop jet, which was withdrawn a decade later.
MRJ will receive about 80 passengers, and competes with other regional passenger aircraft manufacturers such as Brazil's Embraer and Canada's Bombardier.
Japanese companies are American occupiers forbade the production of aircraft after the defeat in World War II. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a military contractor, has developed a legendary Japanese "Zero" fighter plane from World War II.
- 11 Nov, 2015
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