The Embraer C-390 Millennium is a medium military transport aircraft powered by two IAE V2500-E5 turbofan engines capable of supplying 31,330 lbf. (138 kN) of thrust each. It was originally known as the KC-390.
getting in and out of these seats in weight when we re on gravity is a chore. but it s designed to float out of the seat and be weightless. neil: yeah, that should be cool. audrey powers, that s the blue origin representative, the vice president of the company. i m sure you re familiar with this faa, the safety concerns raised by present and past workers. is that an issue going forward here? is there something to this that should cause some of your colleagues there concern? well, my experience at blue i ve been here eight years. my experience has been that we re exceeding through thorough. we conduct safety reviews continually through the design, through the flight test program, through our operations and maintenance of the vehicles and
when the air pressurized air in the plane gushes out into explosive force. those inside the plane need to get to an oxygen mask immediately or they suffer badly from asphyxia. on the two test flights. on one of the test flights, maximum altitude, 43,000 feet and the pilot just got it down, and even then, four of the test crew had to be taken to hospital to be treated for in diving terms called the bends, because they didn t get to their oxygen masks in time. now, it s very fortunate that that happened at that stage in the flight test program, and it exposed a flaw in a valve in the air conditioning system in the belly of the plane. that was rectified then, and there s been no recurrence of that since, but this simply shows to you that there was no redundancy for that failure. it was call add single point facial, highly unusual and no backup. and officers ensured since that can t be repeated. the whole purpose of test
that led up to the first flight in 1981 when we flew columbia in space for the first time. the way we do this, we have very smart people in the country that can design anything if we put our minds to it and we can make stuff like this work. it really is a progression, i think that is a very good point. not like you started out doing this first time-out. no, in any flight test program for any new airplane or any new spacecraft you use a build up approach. do the stuff that is easier and safer first, you gain confidence over time, and eventually you put a crew like john young and robert krippen in columbia and blast them off in space for a couple days. so we continue to watch this 747 with the enterprise on top, and it s making its flight over new york city, eventually make its way to jfk where in 15 or