Production of the 1st prototype is well under way, center wing section and fuselage are already joined together <a href="http://www.fairchilddornier.com/en/media/press/prdoc_98.htm" target="_blank"> Dornier Press Release </a>outer wings are ready to be installed, systems integration is running.
GVT is still sceduled for end of January, this means the structure will be completed then.
Maiden flight will probably take place in the first half of this year.
Istīnt the cockpit section a real beauty one ? Took more than 40 years to build a nose looking as nice as the one of the Comet/Caravelle ... <img src="smile.gif" border="0">