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Article: AVIC STARTS BUILDING HEAD SAMPLES FOR JUMBO JETS
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- September 2, 2009
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AsiaInfo Services
09-02-2009
AVIC Starts Building Head Samples for Jumbo Jets
SHANGHAI, Sep 02, 2009 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- Important progress has recently been made on the research and development of jumbo jets. On September 1, 2009, a Chengdu-based civil aircraft subsidiary of China Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC) began producing components for the head samples of the C919.
The C919 will be a kind of jumbo jets to be made by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. (CACC, or China Commercial Aircraft) under the wing of AVIC.
Samples are test platforms for the design philosophy of airplane bodies, structure and systems as well as experimental platforms for ...