COMAC C919
- Thread starter Deino
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These six are not prototypes that differ structurally from final product, they are mostly identical and in final production configuration. They are built in numbers to speed up the certification process with each one takes a set of test articles, but otherwise are the same. There is almost no changes from them to the production variant, even if there is it is minimum, otherwise it has to go through the certification procedure again. When the aircraft is certified by these six, they are in the state exactly as the production variant, that is the whole point of certification.
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why shanghai ?
it will get expensive there in the future !
they need to build it at places with cheaper labor cost such as chengdu or xian !
Seems less and less likely the wings will be built in Russia.
Some assembly images.
I like the juxtaposition of the no-FOD signs and the hammer-and-sickle flag. It's a good symbol of present-day China.