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Aircraft and technological development. Will the Comac C-919 be the Chinese answer to Boeing and Airbus?

Beijing , China - According to the official sources by the Beijing government, for the new aircraft model there are already 450 orders

According to the official news agency "Xinhua", the company Comac (Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China) has completed the basic assembly of its new model of plane, the C-919; in the intentions of China, the aircraft would have to compete with those produced by Boeing and Airbus, with the role of the "Third inconvenience" in the Euro-American duopoly of the commercial flights. The Chinese aviation...

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Rome, Italy, 02/24/2015 11:03
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