China's first home-made passenger plane takes to the skies for its maiden flight (tr)

UK Daily Mail ^ | 05/05/2017 | TRACY YOU and HARRY PETTIT

[DFG]

China's first domestically built passenger plane completed its maiden flight today. The narrow-body, twin-engine C919 successfully took off from Shanghai Pudong International Airport at 2pm local time (7am BST) amid much fanfare. The single-aisle aircraft has been billed as China's answer to the Boeing 737 and Airbus 320 as the nation aims to take on western airlines. The C919 flight is Beijing's first step toward independence from Boeing and Airbus as it attempts to replace all 6,000-6,800 of its western aircraft at a cost of around $1 trillion.

[DFG]

Full title : China's first home-made passenger plane takes to the skies for its maiden flight: Beijing begins its $1 trillion plan to take on western airlines

[tflabo]

On sale at Walmart.

[BBB333]

Does it have rubber band power, I wonder...

[lacrew]

“It took a decade of research to develop”

The Chicoms are very good at ‘research’.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

China's first domestically built passenger plane completed its maiden flight today.

A lot of industrial espionage went into that first maiden flight, no doubt.

[strange1]

first time I saw a pilot flying a plane in a lab coat...

[shotgun]

Doesn’t Boeing and GE have plants in China?

[Beagle8U]

“On sale at Walmart.”

Naaa, Harbor Freight. Even cheaper with a 20% coupon and your ‘Inside Track’ club card.

[Gay State Conservative]

At least 99% of the Chinese "diplomats","students" and "tourists" you find in advanced industrialized nations (US/Europe/Japan) are,in fact,spies.Some are tasked with getting *military* secrets,some with getting "civilian" secrets (think "Concordeski").

Ten bucks says that 99% of the technology in that aircraft was stolen from the US...Europe....Japan.

[Gay State Conservative]

[Don Corleone]

All pictures and flight data released seem to indicate that the landing gear doesn’t retract. They are about 50 years behind the 727/737.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Lead engineer: Sum Ting Wong

[Red Badger]

That wasn’t a lab coat.

It was a parachute....................

[Vlad The Inhaler]

I think the use of the appellation “home-made” in the title is misleading to ay the least.

[central_va]

Based on the quality of the car parts I have purchased over the years from China I wouldn’t get near the thing.

[wrench]

Yes. It goes at least as far back as Clinton, as I remember McDonD building DC9 series stuff in China back then (early 1990s)

[DaveA37]

Ever heard it said, “The yellow race will rule the world”?

Don't sell the Chinese short.

[cyclotic]

There’s a bunch of in flight photo’s on Bing showing retracted landing gear.

I still wouldn’t fly in it.

[wrench]

Much of the OBD2 hardware in today’s cars (from all manufacturers) is made in China. The Iphone is made in China.

Chinese products are far more mainstream than most folks know.

[Cboldt]

Older folks remember the stigma (deserved) associated with "Made in Japan", especially the tuna-tins turned into toys.

Things change.