Air travel is a very safe mode of travel, with few accidents and a trend line that points to increasing safety year by year. The following chart shows worldwide airline fatalities per million passengers from 1976 through 2014. The trend…
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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…
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The ARJ21-700 has finally entered service. COMAC celebrated the delivery of the first model of the Chinese regional jet (serial number 106) to Chengdu Airlines. Chengdu Airlines will operate its new aircraft between the main cities of its network (Shanghai,…