Va Bene
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Found an interesting (IMO) article in recent edition (22/10) of Time mag on China making a regional jet.
I couldn't imagine an online bidding war for the seats on the first commercial flight. Maybe you get paid to be on it.
China's Aircraft Industry Gets Off the Ground - TIME
Dubbed the Advanced Regional Jet for the 21st Century — the ARJ21 — the aircraft is the fruit of China's first solo commercial aircraft project in nearly 40 years, and it promises to be one of the world's most technologically sophisticated when it takes off for the first time in March 2008. Onboard are the most advanced avionics, propulsion and malfunction-monitoring systems available. With room for 90 passengers (up to 105 in a stretch version), "the ARJ21 will prove China is striving to become a world-class aircraft manufacturer," says Wang Yawei, vice president of the ARJ21's financier, the state-run China Aviation Industry Corporation I (AVIC I).
I couldn't imagine an online bidding war for the seats on the first commercial flight. Maybe you get paid to be on it.
China's Aircraft Industry Gets Off the Ground - TIME
Dubbed the Advanced Regional Jet for the 21st Century — the ARJ21 — the aircraft is the fruit of China's first solo commercial aircraft project in nearly 40 years, and it promises to be one of the world's most technologically sophisticated when it takes off for the first time in March 2008. Onboard are the most advanced avionics, propulsion and malfunction-monitoring systems available. With room for 90 passengers (up to 105 in a stretch version), "the ARJ21 will prove China is striving to become a world-class aircraft manufacturer," says Wang Yawei, vice president of the ARJ21's financier, the state-run China Aviation Industry Corporation I (AVIC I).