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COMAC presents its C-919 airplane -VIDEO-

Shanghai, China - Announced also the beginning of the tests at ground; the flight tests in 2016; the entry in service in 2018

COMAC, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, a State owned Chinese aerospace company, presented this morning in front of about 5000 people among authorities, press and sector guests its new creation, the C-919, a creature to break the Airbus-Boeing duopoly in terms of airliners aircraft. The very clear presentation as Chinese tradition is happened in an hangar of its assembly structure, at the...

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Rome, Italy, 11/02/2015 19:15
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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