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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...

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...

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. ...