14 June 2013

Inside the MSN001 of the First Flight.


There are no seats for passengers. There are a lot of orange cables, monuments, special wiring and a lot of stuff. Everything painted in orange is for FTI; Flight Test Instrumentation.

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There is an evacuation system for flight crew with parachutes. There are orange tubes in the ceiling panels to guide the pilots and test engineers to the emergency exit.

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The flight test station is located in the middle of the aircraft, on the wing. They will help the pilots to fly and to perform different tests. There are 30 cameras installed in the MSN001; a lot of the looking to the landing gears. It´s about 600.000 parameters that are recorded during the flight and are sent to the ground control room where 100 people are monitoring all these parameters and analyzing the data.   

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There is a special seat for Emanuel Constanzo (the famous Manu) who is the test engineer in charge of the engines. From his seat he will be able to watch the engines through the windows and monitor all their parameters in a special monument.

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In the aft section of the fuselage, instead of seats there are water ballast (300kg each). This allows changing the load plan of the aircraft for testing.


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