Chinese homegrown ARJ-21 makes maiden test flight

[TangoWhiskey]

http://www.komonews.com/news/35218879.html

I've always thought it looked like an MD-80 series knockoff. Interesting that they kept it so low for the initial flight! You'd think they'd want some altitude to work with if something went other than as planned.

 

[SCCutler]

Now, Troy-

The fact that it looks amazingly like an MD80 has nothing - NOTHING - to do with the local manufacturing joint venture that McDonnell-Douglas had with the Chinese, the one which built... ummmm... MD80s.

Really.

 

[rubber314chicken]

I wonder how much the lead in it reduced payload. Or have they stopped that now?

 

[Teller1900]

It looks like a CRJ wing meets a Challenger (basically the same thing) and had a love child with an MD-80.

 

[AdamZ]

I wonder how much the lead in it reduced payload. Or have they stopped that now?

Or the Flight Attendants asking sir, would you like melamine creamer with your coffee?

Ya know I am sure I put my life in the hands of something on a regular basis that is made in China but nothing that I'm aware of Ignorance is Bliss. I'm trying to think of a product that the Chinese have not poisioned in the past few years.

 

[Trapper John]

Or the Flight Attendants asking sir, would you like melamine creamer with your coffee?

And hearing the crew quote from the POH after the flight instruments crap out, "To use magretic compass, remember east is yeast and west is breast."


Trapper John

 

[gprellwitz]

This appears to be the same parent company that's going to be making the Cessna 162:

On 27 November 2007 Cessna announced that the Cessna 162 would be made in the People's Republic of China by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, which is a subsidiary of China Aviation Industry Corporation I (AVIC I), a Chinese government-owned consortium of aircraft manufacturers.[9] By manufacturing the aircraft in China, Cessna reports that it saved US$71,000 in production costs per aircraft produced. A second reason cited for moving production to Shenyang Aircraft Corporation was that Cessna has no plant capacity available in the USA

 

[astanley]

Or the Flight Attendants asking sir, would you like melamine creamer with your coffee?

LOL, Adam. #@$@#$ brilliant.

Cheers,

-Andrew