Air China to buy 100 locally made C919 jets in $11 billion deal
Air China to buy 100 locally made C919 jets in $11 billion deal
The planes will be delivered between 2024 and 2031, Air China said in a filing.
Glad to see Comac planes being used at production scale. Hopefully they are safe and push Boeing to do better, but based on recent US actions I bet they will ban Comac to prevent competition.
There is more that goes into an airplane than the people maintaining or assembling it, which can and does go afoul. There is the entire manufacturing process, how materials are sourced, processed, refined, machined/formed, heat treated, stress relieved, coated/plated, assembled, and the list goes on. That is a major factor why aircraft are so safe and if you think China's material and process controls are as rigorous as someone like Boeing or Airbus, it isn't. It has taken decades of actual aircraft manufacturing to get the formula right for those respective companies and they continue to evolve as time goes on and new information is learned.
someone like Boeing
U funny
and if you think China's material and process controls are as rigorous as someone like Boeing or Airbus, it isn't
Source? You can probably point to specific processes that are done better in the US/Europe. But which ones are preventing China from building a reliable plane?
Nothing but time. So long as their testing is rigorous, they will catch up to Boeing... But will they be rigorous? History has repeatedly suggested, no.
But we in the west shouldn't count on that continually being the case.
We tested Comac parts for FAA certification. When you've tested parts for decades you can pretty much nail down the cause of the failure be it design, process, materials, a combination and so forth.
Also the c919 is only certified in China. It can't fly in the US or Europe.
That which made China will also be its downfall. They can’t manufacture and sell cheap junk for decades, then turn around and expect people to trust their lives in their planes.
Boeing isn’t better, by any means. Nationalize them and imprison the CEOs
imprison the CEOs
a broken clock is right once a day
100 planes isn't a whole lot for the Chinese domestic market. And they won't mind that the planes are made in China at all.
Locally produced, artisanal airplanes.
Boeing has generally been one of the lynchpins of China-US trade relationship, and with both the current geopolitical climate and the ongoing quality issues of Boeing aircrafts, of course the Chinese airlines would want to hedge their bets and take a risk on domestically produced jets, even if it is new and relatively unproven at this point. It doesn't mean that they will stop buying from Airbus or Boeing completely, though.
The C919 uses many American/European produced components/subsystem, most notably the CFM LEAP engines, which is also used by both Airbus and Boeing.