U.S. top aerospace¹ manufacturer Boeing Company announced Friday the successful test flight of its new 737 MAX 7 airplane, which is put on track for delivery in 2019.

 

美国高级航空航天设备制造商波音公司周五宣布，新型737 MAX 7飞机已成功完成试飞，该机型将于2019年交付使用。
 

 

The aircraft is the third and latest member of Boeing's 737 MAX family, with a maximum capacity of 172 passengers and a range of 3,850 nautical² miles (about 7,130 km), the longest of the MAX-series planes.

 

As the shortest jet among Boeing's MAX jetliners, which is only less than 118 feet (36 meters) long, the 737 MAX 7 model boasts a more efficient engine and has split-tip winglets, which help improve the wings' efficiency.

 

The maiden³ flight started earlier in the day at Boeing's Renton Plant in Washington state on the U.S. West Coast, and ended successfully after three hours and five minutes when the plane landed at Boeing's Seattle Field, also in Washington state.

 

"Everything we saw during today's flight shows that the MAX 7 is performing exactly as designed," Keith Leverkuhn, vice⁴ president and general manager of the 737 MAX program at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said in a statement.

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