Revised First Flight for Aermacchi's M346 Advanced Jet Trainer
Prototype
Aviation Week & Space Technology
03/29/2004, page 13
Edited by Patricia J. Parmalee
PO1, TAKE 2
Aermacchi is working toward a revised first flight of the prototype
M346 advanced jet trainer, aircraft PO1, by mid-May. It had been
set to fly last December, but a delay in the development of the
flight control system, among other factors, led to the pushback.
Prototype PO2 is scheduled to be flown by the second quarter of
2005, while a third, fitted with definitive landing gear (the PO1
uses gear borrowed from the AMX fighter-bomber), is slated to fly
in mid-2006. The third prototype is viewed as representative of the
initial production standard.
