Aircraft
Bombardier CRJ1000s Back in the Air
Flight testing of Bombardier’s new CRJ1000 resumed on February 13, when S/N 19991 took to the air from the company’s Wichita flight-test center, some five

Flight testing of Bombardier’s new CRJ1000 resumed on February 13, when S/N 19991 took to the air from the company’s Wichita flight-test center, some five months after a second software “glitch” associated with the airplane’s control-by-wire rudder system grounded the program’s two prototypes.

Now flying both of the airplanes from Wichita, Bombardier suffered perhaps another six-week setback since company COO Guy Hachey established a somewhat vague target to resume flying during the company’s third-quarter earnings call last December. At the time, Hachey had said that the company planned to resume flying its pair of CRJ1000 test articles “shortly after Christmas.” All told, the software problems have cost the program roughly a one-year delay.