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FEATURE REGIONAL AIRCRAFT
more efficient. Add them up: new engines, was launched in 2013, Embraer has booked
wings and FBW controls produce a 16 per 267 firm orders and 373 more options and
cent savings in fuel, a 16 per cent diminution purchase rights.
in CO2 emissions. Throw in extra seats as a The Mitsubishi Regional Jet, the MRJ90,
result of a longer E195-E2 and the fuel burn nudges toward the 100-passenger passenger
per passenger carried drops further, to 24 mark, with a max seating of 90. Powered
per cent. On July 17, 2014, Hainan Airlines by the PW1217G, the MRJ90’s advanced
subsidiary Tianjin Airlines announced a firm aerodynamics help it reduce fuel burn
order for 20 Embraer E190-E2s, with an and noise but the programme has had its
option for 20 more of the same type. Tianjin problems. Construction started in April 2011
is a major customer for the ER-145 and E-190 but plans for extensive use of composites
with a fleet of 19 and 48 respectively. Other have been scaled back. First flight was
ABOVE: COMAC’s C919 jetliner is a operators in the region for Embraer regional scheduled for the second quarter of 2012
family of narrow-body twin-engine jets include Fiji Dream with 11 E-170/175s, but it has been delayed numerous times
jet aircraft under development in J-Air which has in service or on order 20 E-170 and the aircraft finally took to the air on
China that can seat between 158– and 190s, China Southern Airlines 20 E-190s November 11, 2015. The problems continued
174 passengers
and Henan Airlines with 4 E-190s.Embraer’s with wing strength issues and in late January,
OPPOSITE TOP: New wings and E190-E2s, with new wings, engines and a new Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and
a fourth-generation ‘fly by wire’ FBW control system, is scheduled to enter Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation announced
control system alone, contribute to service in 2018. The E195-E2 follows a year a two-year delay in deliveries of the MRJ.
a total improvement in fuel savings
of five percent on the E175-E2, later, and the smaller E175-E2 starts flying “The change is due to revisions of certain
E190-E2 and E195-E2 the line in 2020. Since the E-Jets E2 program systems and electrical configurations on
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