AssassinsMace
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Looks like something you'd see flying around Pandora.





Some nice pics of the C919 cockpit and interior.
Now that the cockpit is all padded up and smooth it sure does look like it's ready to compete internationally, and the economy class doesn't look to shabby either.
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It's for the same reason that leads to the use of foreign engines in the first phase: safety, and the related authorization patent needed from the international flight authorities. They require time and the use of a full chinese made plane would bring a lot of delays in C919 operativity (expected in 2016). So at the beginning, in 2016 the plane will be chinese only on the airframe, later hopefully (i hope by 2020-2025) will be chinese even in the avionics and engines...I just don't understand why the avionics and flight control system have to be western western stuffs? After all if they can do it on J-10, Y-9 etc, it shouldn't be much of a issue for C919.