Posted on 05/03/2017 4:04:11 PM PDT by teacherwoes
After a three year delay the long-awaited maiden flight of China’s 158-seat C919 passenger aircraft is scheduled for Friday, the latest step by the country to break the duopoly of Western giants Airbus and Boeing. According to Xinhua, the first flight of the C919, assembled by state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac), will be conducted at the Shanghai International Airport on Friday, but could be delayed if weather conditions are not suitable.
The timing for the first flight was set after the passenger jet passed a thorough assessment in April.
A successful maiden flight, followed by a series of safety certification processes, could open a floodgate for new orders for the single-aisle passenger jet, likely to generate 1 trillion yuan (HK$1.13 trillion) in business for Comac, according to Galaxy Securities.
The C919 has received 570 orders and commitments from 23 customers, mainly Chinese state-owned carriers and leasing companies.
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Thank you Hil & Bill Clinton
Looks like a warmed over Boeing 757!
It's a commercial success!! (Ha!!)
They have a lot of extra people, just sayin...
And thank you free traitors, for conning us into paying for this.
No way I would ever fly in a Chinese built plane.
Looks like it will use LEAP engines. That’s good for GE.
What a scary thing. A completely Chinese engineered/built aircraft. Not me.
“A completely Chinese engineered/built aircraft. Not me.”
I’d fly in it in a second.
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Sat next to a pilot once. They had a saying: if it ain’t Boeing, we ain’t going...
For God’s sake,read the article,much of it USA made.
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Chicaps ascendent
I see the engines are-for now.
So now that China is taking over aviation what will all the "displaced" aircraft workers in the USA do for work? Will the Free Traitors™ tell us this is a good this?
I completely agree.
We have been selling out EVERY SINGLE THING we used to make for the world.
Everything.
Yet we continue to say “globalism”. While China is taking over.
Yeah just don't put any political dissent in China.
See, will will reverse rolls. China will build everything and America will became a land of Entrepreneurs selling meat sticks and rice to each in little bicycle push carts.
That is not even funny.
Our side will sell out America, everyone is selling us out.
It is sad, yet it continues...
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