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COMAC: C-919 aircraft to perform its maiden flight in 2014

Beijing, China - 380 orders for the new Chinese airplane

The maiden flight of the C-919, the new passenger aircraft developed by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) will be performed in 2014, according to Wu Guanghui, COMAC's vice-president and chief designer of the C-919 programme. The executive added that, in order to diminish the technical risks brought by new materials and new technology, COMAC started trial production of the seven sections...

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