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Covid-related Travel Restrictions Delay C919’s Icing Trials
Canada’s International Test Pilots School will have to wait until autumn to conduct natural icing tests on the Comac C919.
The Comac C919 will undergo natural icing tests sometime this autumn in Ontario, Canada. (Photo: Comac)
The Comac C919 will undergo natural icing tests sometime this autumn in Ontario, Canada. (Photo: Comac)

Comac has delayed C919 natural icing trials with Canada’s International Test Pilots School (ITPS) in Ontario until autumn due to Covid-19-related travel complications, ITPS president Giorgio Clementi told AIN Thursday. Having reached a sufficiently advanced stage to conduct the trials in early spring, C919 program officials notified ITPS that it won its bid for the contract only two weeks ago.