The flight was on Tuesday, 18 April at the company's Ontario, Canada base where the aircraft is being developed.
Diamond said:"After a series of high speed taxi and rotation tests, Diamond's D-JETS/N 001, lifted off at 17:08 on Tuesday April 18th, 2006.
The test was conducted from the London International Airport, home of Diamond's North American operation.
"The 1 hour 6 minute test flight was conducted according ... more