China Civil Aviation, AVIC (MA600) & COMAC (ARJ21/C919/C929)

samsara · Aug 1, 2019

Maiden Flight of the COMAC C919's Fourth Prototype From Shanghai On 2019-08-01.

From the People's Daily on 2019-08-01:

China’s #C919 large passenger aircraft saw its fourth prototype jet successfully complete its maiden flight in Shanghai on Thursday morning, which lasted for one hour and 25 minutes.

(attached a 13-second take-off video clip)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1156731270149206017

LKJ86 · Aug 1, 2019

samsara said:
Maiden Flight of the COMAC C919's Fourth Prototype From Shanghai On 2019-08-01.

From the People's Daily on 2019-08-01:

China’s #C919 large passenger aircraft saw its fourth prototype jet successfully complete its maiden flight in Shanghai on Thursday morning, which lasted for one hour and 25 minutes.

(attached a 13-second take-off video clip)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1156731270149206017

Deino · Aug 1, 2019

Congratulations

LKJ86 · Aug 1, 2019

MA700

Armchair · Aug 1, 2019

MA-700 would be a great plane for the PIA to connect Swat, Gilgit, Peshawar, Quetta, etc to Lahore and Karachi. This is a critical link if we are to take turning the northern areas into a serious holiday destination for people in the Gulf.

The other hub and spoke to make the whole system work is to connect Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore to Dubai, Doha, Istanbul, Riyadh, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.

Once these two levels of a hub and spoke is created to connect Pak properly to the international and national markets, we would be open for business. The price of the ticketing has to be right, can't be overpriced otherwise the tourists will never bite in the first place.

samsara · Aug 2, 2019

From Henry Kenhmann at the East Pendulum on 2019.08.01:

The 4th flying prototype of the COMAC C919 has completed its inaugural flight of one hour and 25 minutes this morning in Shanghai (2019-08-01).

With a better short clip.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1156825151167582208