China's ARJ-21 officially enter commercial service today

[GS Zhou]

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And there were plenty over the last few days;
- fastest supercomputer (Sunway-TaihuLight) and second fastest supercomputer (Tianhe-2),
- CZ-7 rocket,
- ARJ21 maiden flight,
- heavy-ion medical accelerator ready for clinical trials,
- new highways, expressways, tunnels, HSR lines, metro lines,
- Gaofen-4,
- Midea Offers to Buy Kuka AG,
- AIIB has made its first loans,
- first embedded neural network processing unit,
- 4G users exceed 500 million,
- one of the biggest heavy-lift ship,
- Aperture Spherical Telescope "FAST" almost complete,
- World's biggest 70-ton vibration-simulation table,
- scientists find the existence of the Majorana fermion particle,
- etc.

very impressive summary! Thanks much!

 

[TaiShang]

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And there were plenty over the last few days;
- fastest supercomputer (Sunway-TaihuLight) and second fastest supercomputer (Tianhe-2),
- CZ-7 rocket,
- ARJ21 maiden flight,
- heavy-ion medical accelerator ready for clinical trials,
- new highways, expressways, tunnels, HSR lines, metro lines,
- Gaofen-4,
- Midea Offers to Buy Kuka AG,
- AIIB has made its first loans,
- first embedded neural network processing unit,
- 4G users exceed 500 million,
- one of the biggest heavy-lift ship,
- Aperture Spherical Telescope "FAST" almost complete,
- World's biggest 70-ton vibration-simulation table,
- scientists find the existence of the Majorana fermion particle,
- etc.

Impressive. No reason to be complacent as China is just a big developing nation, but still, impressive.

 

[ahojunk]

Some pictures of ARJ-21 maiden flight, China's first self-developed airliner

If you are in Chengdu, Sichuan there is no escaping from the cute pandas!

Personnel dress as pandas to mark China’s first indigenously designed regional jet ARJ21 starting operation, on June 28, 2016. An ARJ21 jet, flight number EU6679, has departed from Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan province, to east China’s Shanghai municipality, on this day. [Photo: Xinhua]

Media shoot videos in the cabin of China’s first indigenously designed regional jet ARJ21 starting operation, on June 28, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]

A flight attendant dressed as a panda to mark China’s first indigenously designed regional jet ARJ21 starting operation, on June 28, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]

The ARJ21 jet is set to depart Chengdu, Sichuan province, on June 28, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]

 

[cirr]

How about being attended to by "Jiajia" the robot air hostess from NUST?

 

[greenwood]

Landed at 11:37

Seems the seating area is large enough and the chair is some comfortable.

 

[Beast]

 

[yantong1980]

don't tell me they gonna serving passenger with panda suit

Jia jia is lovely, congrats China! Hope she can do more movement like walk or serving tea...

 

[ahojunk]

The seats are fairly spacious, so is the aisle.

In the luggage cabin, there are similar looking bags.

I think they are gift packs to commemorate the maiden flight.

 

[greenwood]

Some pictures of ARJ-21 maiden flight, China's first self-developed airliner

If you are in Chengdu, Sichuan there is no escaping from the cute pandas!

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Personnel dress as pandas to mark China’s first indigenously designed regional jet ARJ21 starting operation, on June 28, 2016. An ARJ21 jet, flight number EU6679, has departed from Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan province, to east China’s Shanghai municipality, on this day. [Photo: Xinhua]


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Media shoot videos in the cabin of China’s first indigenously designed regional jet ARJ21 starting operation, on June 28, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]


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A flight attendant dressed as a panda to mark China’s first indigenously designed regional jet ARJ21 starting operation, on June 28, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]


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The ARJ21 jet is set to depart Chengdu, Sichuan province, on June 28, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]

You may don't know China has a lot of "small" cities with 1 million+ population without or with a small airport.
This regional jet must have good market in domestic airlines.

 

[Beast]

You may don't know China has a lot of "small" cities with 1 million+ population without or with a small airport.
This regional jet must have good market in domestic airlines.

First China domestic made passenger jet airline enter service.

 

[greenwood]

First China domestic made passenger jet airline enter service.

MA60 was not the first one?

 

[Beast]

MA60 was not the first one?

MA60 is turboprop , not jet.

 

[greenwood]

MA60 is turboprop , not jet.

Ah...you are right.

 

[xunzi]

I prefer leather seat. Just more luxury feeling to it although I understand the environment aspect of using leather.

 

[AViet]

Congratulation from Vietnam