Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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Bombardier’s CSeries will fly as soon as the flight test team encounters a large enough window of visual flight rule (VFR) conditions, a company spokesman told AIN on Monday.


Unfortunately for Bombardier, weather reports call for thunderstorms and showers for the rest of the week, potentially delaying the long-anticipated event until at least the weekend. 
 
	Bombardier began the high-speed taxi trials on September 6, when dry weather conditions finally allowed flight test managers to clear FTV1 for the tests. Still executing <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/2013-09-04/cseries-set-perform-high-speed-taxi-tests">high-speed taxi runs</a> on Monday morning, the first flight test vehicle (FTV1) has reached a speed of 120 knots on the ground.


Transport Canada <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/2013-08-30/transport-canada-clears-cseries-fly">issued FTV1 its flight-test permit</a> on August 30, following a series of pre-flight tests including low-speed taxi runs. First expected to fly by the end of last year, the CSeries remains on the ground following the failure of Bombardier to meet two subsequent targets for first flight—one at the end of June and the other at the end of July. It blamed the most recent setback on integration delays involving certain unnamed systems.


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