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05-05-2017, 03:36 PM
China's first large passenger jet takes its maiden flight
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China's first homegrown passenger plane made its maiden flight on Friday after**on, to much fanfare.
The world manufacturing superpower has hitched much of its hopes on the 168-seat C919 jet (http://mashable.com/2015/11/02/boeing-airbus-c919-china/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), as its toe into a world dominated by America's Boeing and Europe's Airbus.
SEE ALSO: Airbus wants to get rid of cabin classes and make planes totally customizable (http://mashable.com/2017/03/28/the-future-of-flight-according-to-airbus/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Made by state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac), the C919 faced a three-year long delay due to production issues.
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And, she's off!
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The country's aerospace industry has only recently started to make its own large passenger jets. The country tried to make the defunct Shanghai Y10 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Y-10) in the 1980s but it failed to be viable; more recently, Comac's ARJ-21 regional airliner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_ARJ21) made its first commercial flight in 2015. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/05/china-c919-jet-flies/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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China's first homegrown passenger plane made its maiden flight on Friday after**on, to much fanfare.
The world manufacturing superpower has hitched much of its hopes on the 168-seat C919 jet (http://mashable.com/2015/11/02/boeing-airbus-c919-china/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), as its toe into a world dominated by America's Boeing and Europe's Airbus.
SEE ALSO: Airbus wants to get rid of cabin classes and make planes totally customizable (http://mashable.com/2017/03/28/the-future-of-flight-according-to-airbus/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Made by state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac), the C919 faced a three-year long delay due to production issues.
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And, she's off!
Image: AFP/Getty Images
The country's aerospace industry has only recently started to make its own large passenger jets. The country tried to make the defunct Shanghai Y10 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Y-10) in the 1980s but it failed to be viable; more recently, Comac's ARJ-21 regional airliner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_ARJ21) made its first commercial flight in 2015. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/05/china-c919-jet-flies/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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