did it really
flymani
I'm impressed.
Did it really do all this in one lash or is it a bit of gentle overstatement by our erstwhile adversaries and now sometime good friends?
I know little of but the centrefold in an Eagle comic I bought at an airshow stall in 1994 at Fairford. So...
London to New York? Despatch reliability? DOC? 220 pax each with 45kgs wanting to fly at highest available FL and 520kts? Airline wants minimum FUBO. Enginers want credible MTBO. Pilots want to live.
My father died advancing the cause of socialism in his old age when the Soviet era aircraft he was travelling in fell from the sky in tatters as many of them were, and still sadly are, wont to do.
On the other hand I have had a close call piloting inferior Western tat for nigh on thirty years, man and boy. Never an easy man to convince my old man and nor am I but assuredly your good friend in this matter.
If you say, flymani, all of the claims made on behalf of the aircraft were not only simultaneously achievable or even near-simultaneous and verified by the FAI and endorsed by an eminent chief accountant and his buddies the chief pilot and chief engineer as being comercially practical then I'm your man.
Otherwise I remain kindly sceptical. Gotta say a lovely looking aircraft. Have you flown it or in it? I'd be honoured to hear all about it if not, in the circumstances, wish to try it myself. Though come on, of course I would. What a legend. Any still flying? I'm up for it.
Best Rgds
the "E"