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China, C-919 plane: maiden flight in March, will it be on time?

Shanghai , China - After years of delays a prototype of the aircraft started tests in Shanghai. Comac expects to sell 2300 units

It's years that Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) -the Chinese State-owned aerospace manufacturer- announced the intention to build a single-aisle aircraft able to compete with Airbus and Boeing in the segment in which the two manufacturers dominate the market with their A-320s and B-737s. The C-919 -this is the name of the plane by Comac- is a twin-engine, low-wing jet for short to...

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Rome, Italy, 02/06/2017 13:25
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