Flight tests confirming An-70 aircraft engine's specifications

The program of test flights of the upgraded Russian-Ukrainian An-70 military transport aircraft is running smoothly, Chief Designer of Zaporizhia-based Ivchenko-Progress Design Bureau Ihor Kravchenko has said. "The plane is finishing the program of flight tests of the D-27 engine and propfan. Everything is going as planned. The performances are being confirmed," Kravchenko said at Airshow China-2012 in Zhuhai.

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