With the recent first flight of the Embraer E2-190, it was an appropriate time to get update the progress of the E2 development program. We we fortunate to have an opportunity to speak with Luis Carlos Affonso, SVP – Operations…
Air travel is a very safe mode of travel, with few accidents and a trend line that points to increasing safety year by year. The following chart shows worldwide airline fatalities per million passengers from 1976 through 2014. The trend…
Embraer had the first flight of its E-190 E2 aircraft last week in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil. The fact that the flight was earlier than initially scheduled is a good sign for the program, in that things have gone…
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In a quiet affair (no media) Embraer undertook its first flight for the E-190 E2 yesterday. The flight was originally scheduled to take place during the second half of this year. The first flight took 3 hours and 20 minutes.…