New Boeing 737 MAX lifts for first time
After the grounding of the fleet of Boeing 737 MAX, the fleet is ready to rule the skies again. The fleet was grounded after the deadly crashes of the highly modern and advanced aircraft "Boeing 737 MAX".
The new sensors added in the aircraft which made the Boeing 737 much advanced had a serious glitch in the system. In both the cases the jet's computer triggered a system that made the pilots to struggle with the control systems, which eventually took the aircraft into a steep nose dive to plumit the craft from the sky. The Lion Air flight JT610 and the Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 killed approximately 346 people, in October 2018 and March 2019.
After making the some technical changes in the flight computer the Boeing 737 MAX is ready to leave the tarmac after a long interval.
The Boeing confirmed that the first flight of the Boeing 737 MAX 10 tookoff from Renton, Washington at 1707 GMT into the clear sky. Flying over the central part of the state and conducted a safe landing after two and half hours later in the airport of Seattle.
On the controls was Captain Jennifer Henderson, after completing the flight successfully he said "The aircraft performed very beautifully. The profile we flew allowed us to test the airplane's various vital flight control systems, flight control and handling qualities, all of which checked out exactly as we expected".
Initially this test flight was to be conducted in 2020, but the 737MAX was grounded for another 20 months due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Going by the projections made by the Boeing, they intend to commence the deliveries of the 737-MAX10 in 2023. Before starting of the deliveries Boeing will conduct a series of test flight to make the jet safe for the passengers and the crew. The tests conducting by the US FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION(FAA).
In an official statement the president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes said that the 737-10 is a very important part of the the fleet of their various customers. The Boeing 737MAX-10 will give them more capacity, great fuel efficiency and the best ever per seat economy of any single-aisle airplane currently in the skies.
The jet was initially announced at the Paris Air Show in June 2017, where the company officials talked about its size and termed it as the most efficient, profitable single aisle airplane in the industry. The jet was competing with the Boeing's rival Airbus' Airbus A321neo. The Boeing 737MAX-10 has a capacity of 230 passengers. The company has been increasing the seating capacity of the 737MAX series from 737MAX-7 which had about 138-153 seats.
This will be a short range jet as compared to the other 737MAX versions. It will be propelled by some of the Boeing's finest Leap-1B jet engine, designed by the GE Aviation and Safran Aircraft.
So, now after the jet has the approval of the US regulatory bodies and also from the various other major civil aviation bodies. The approval was granted in November 2020, and since then Boeing has started new deliveries of the max and has also announced new contracts with several other leading carriers.
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