A new RJ to Enter Into Service!

[chornedsnorkack]

An-148 shall finally enter into service, with Aerosvit:
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... rator.html

Hm... is it a good replacement for Bring Another Engine 146?

[Ivan]

Its just the demo plane flying around with new stickers on it.
For some reason they like to do that. Sibir had prototype Tu-204's that they got from the Vnukovo merger, Dalava has one Tu-214 that is actually the first demo plane. Aeromist had a prototype An-140 which was crashed by Antonov factory pilots on a customer demo flight.

This only means that they want a really good test session but they dont own the plane. Antonov will take it to airshows when they want to show it, so it isnt really useful for regular service

[flyboy 28]

So it's essentially a Do-328?

[Ivan]

In concept it is, with the same fuselage size as the An-140.
In an Aerodynamic way, its the an-74 minus the weird engine placement