What do my fellow pla/n/efags think of the Chinese Comac C919? They've sold 517 already - almost all to state-owned carriers.
Do you think it will make any impact on the Boeing/Airbus duopoly, or will it just turn out to be a wretched, unreliable piece-of-shit, like everything else made in China?
> Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/02/asia/china-new-c919-passenger-jet/
>>894520
>Do you think it will make any impact on the Boeing/Airbus duopoly
It won't. China makes their own crap planes. Same for Russia.
>>894520
I won't be flying in one, that's for sure.
>>894520
It's hard to make any sort of assessment without official performance statistics and a track record for the manufacturer, but if China's aviation industry at large's track record is anything to go by it's probably not going to have much international success, just by reputation alone.
>>894520
>Do you think it will make any impact on the Boeing/Airbus duopoly, or will it just turn out to be a wretched, unreliable piece-of-shit, like everything else made in China?
you'd be surprised at what is made in China these days...
(note that pic related is from 2010)
>>894538
>everything made offshore is made in china
es hecho en mejico y canada porque NAFTA
bombardier in particular is a big winner here
>>894521
This. It's just another third-tier narrow body twinjet manufacturer.
>>894520
When will they stop making flying tubes with wings with engine pods?
I want to see wing mounted engines or lifting body designs or something.
>>894566
Yeah, they're such a big winner that the Quebec government had to dump a billion dollars on them.
>>894569
>implying jewing taxpayers out of money is not the real victory here
I think we're just going to have to wait and see how long it takes for one to fall out of the sky.
>>894585
China is just going to blame wiggers for shooting missiles at it.
>>894569
I would count having a billion dollars dumped on me as a "win"! Perhaps a political rather than technical win, but a win non the less.
>>894520
If the ARJ21 program is anything to go by, we might even see the C919 certified for commercial service by 2025!
