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Insight: The COMAC C919 is a Game Changer

The first COMAC C919 has been delivered to China Eastern and will soon enter commercial service. While the ramp-up will be slow, COMAC now has orders for more than 1,100 C919 aircraft from Chinese airlines and leasing companies.For the West, that means 1,100 aircraft...

Airbus and Bombardier Announce Joint Venture for CSeries

Airbus will be the white knight to rescue the C Series through a joint venture with Bombardier, announced earlier today. The agreement will include a second assembly line in Mobile, Alabama to produce C Series aircraft for the US market. As additional details are...

Another C919 Delay?

COMAC representatives have conceded that the first flight of the C919, which was scheduled to be completed this year, will likely not fly until April 2017. This schedule slippage will likely add another three to six months to the program development timeline, which...

Is China’s aircraft manufacturing standing still?

An old Chinese saying goes "Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still". Perhaps these words help Chinese aerospace managers deal with more delay news. Let's start with the ARJ21, which was first scheduled to enter service 7 years ago in 2009. ...

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