The Spanish Series Production Eurofighter Has Carried out the First Taxi
Madrid, 24 September 2002
On Friday, 20th the first series production aircraft has performed its first trials on the runway.
The directional and brake control systems have been checked performing ground manoeuvres consisting of several accelerations, brakes and round movements.
Finally the aircraft named ST001 began to taxi reaching 70 knots, as previously planned.
For the first time the EADS CASA test pilots have undertaken this trial counting only on a radio connection to the engineers. Actually this aircraft, to be delivered to the Spanish Air Force, is not longer equipped with the telemetry system used for the development aircraft (DA) and the instrumented series production aircraft (IPA) operated by the industries.
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