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China’s First Homegrown Passenger Jet Takes Off

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China’s First Homegrown Passenger Jet Takes Off

So Does Its Trillion Dollar Aviation Industry

Economic Information Daily,

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China’s first big jetliner takes to the air, giving wing to the nation’s aviation sector.

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On May 5, 2017, China’s first big jetliner, the C919, made its maiden flight from Shanghai Pudong International Airport. Built by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac), the C919 is a single-aisle, twin-engine plane with a capacity to seat up to 168 passengers. According to Comac chairman Jin Zhuanglong, the aircraft will go through a series of trials on avionics and flight control, as well as on its hydraulic and static system. If everything goes smoothly, it will complete the technical verification in 2017 and start the production and delivery phase in 2018. Meanwhile, the research and development of jet engines by ...

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Hou Yunlong is a reporter for Economic Information Daily. Founded in 1981 and sponsored by Xinhua News Agency, the journal is China’s earliest national economic newspaper.

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