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The Comac C939 is a planned long-range wide-body twinjet airliner family being developed by Chinese Comac as a competitor to the Boeing 777 and Airbus A350. [1] It is designed to be larger than the other two models in its domestically produced aircraft line: the Comac C919 and Comac C929.
'Transporter-10') is a four engined narrow-body jet airliner developed in the 1970s by the Shanghai Aircraft Research Institute. The plane used Boeing's 707-320C as reference, designed according to Federal Aviation Regulation (Part 25, 1970 edition). [2]
The aircraft, bearing the livery of China Eastern Airlines, was set to be delivered in 2022. [60] In May 2022, the heavily modified jet was listed for a price of 653 million yuan (US$101 million), almost matching the Airbus A320neo and the Boeing 737 MAX competitors, and twice the US$50 million price initially anticipated, albeit with composite ...
China’s homegrown 737 competitor has to wait a while to fill the vacuum left by Boeing: Europe says COMAC’s C919 is ‘too new’ to approve by 2026 Lionel Lim March 15, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Boeing has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons in recent months. When a panel flew out of its Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 plane mid-air in January, the safety standards and leadership at ...
Six months after the West lifted an almost two-year flight ban on the MAX, there is no clear end in sight for the crisis surrounding Boeing's fastest-selling jet in China - the first nation to ...
This was the first time a turbofan-powered regional jet independently developed by China had flown abroad to carry out flight tests in special weather conditions. At the same time, other flight-test aircraft covered more than 30,000 km across Asia, America, Europe, and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
In June 2012, Russia and China entered talks to set up a joint venture between UAC and Comac to develop a successor to the Il-96. Development was expected to take at least seven years and cost $7–12 billion, with a production target of several hundred aircraft. Russia would contribute its knowledge and China would provide the resources. [3]