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May 20, 2015 - The first A320neo equipped with
CFM International LEAP-1A engines completed its
maiden flight on Tuesday in Toulouse,
France. The
aircraft, registration F-WNEW, was flown by
Experimental Test Pilots Philippe Perrin and
Malcolm Ridley.
Accompanying them in the cockpit was Test-Flight
Engineer Jean-Michel Pin and monitoring the
progress of the flight profile were the
Flight-Test Engineers Tuan Do and Philippe
Pupin. The flight lasted 4 hours and 25 minutes
during which tests were performed to validate
the aircraft’s flight envelope up to the maximum
altitude (39,000ft) and test the engine speed
variation (low/high) in addition to checking
systems behavior.
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