China Inaugurates Homegrown Jet [with photo]

AP ^ | 12/21/07 | ELAINE KURTENBACH

[UNGN]

My prediction is compressor stall city, the first time the pilot pulls back the stick to rotate it.

CRJ's and A-10's don't have their CF34's mounted way high for looks.

And how do you have a "first Production" plane for an airframe that has never flown before.

Shouldn't there be some prototypes first before production begins?

Good thing there is no problem too big that is can't be solved by throwing more money at it.

[Secret Agent Man]

Originally planned for 2005, but ran into delays...

Couldn’t steal the necessary plans until then.

[beelzepug]

The jackscrew. Check the jackscrew.

[TalonDJ]

Actually, to be MORE accurate, and MD90.

No really. Boeing sold them the tooling and license. That is pretty much an MD-90 fuselage. The wings are a Russian design. Engines are GE and the Avionics suite is Rockwell Collins.

[shekkian]

But look at 50 years of aviation history and we go from Kitty Hawk to the first F-4’s.

Nah, that's 55 years. The F-4 prototype first flew in 1958.

[TalonDJ]

And how do you have a "first Production" plane for an airframe that has never flown before.

You buy it all off the shelf like a big Lego kit and put it together.

[tcrlaf]

I used to fly Britt’s Ex-Air Illinois BAC back and forth to Evansville from Indy twice a week...

Now that I look at it, it seems strangely familiar to THIS:
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An F28-4000

[OCCASparky]

Don’t laugh...that plane went down on a day I was at Pt. Hueneme...

[UNGN]

The jackscrew. Check the jackscrew.

They probably got a good deal on some used Jackscrews they picked up at Roswell for cheap.

They just needed a little touching up to the paperwork....

[OCCASparky]

Couldn’t steal the necessary plans until then.

WTH--Clinton was in office until 2001, then she moved on to the Senate...that should have meant a nice uninterrupted flow of secrets to the Chinese.

[azhenfud]

"Original plans called for the jet to be ready by late 2005, but design problems forced a delay."

"Meiwenti... We did not immediately get a full set of techical drawings and data of the B717."

[azhenfud]

DC-9 has the APU intake at the root of the vertical stab.

The Chinese covered over the hole with Duck sauce —— I mean TAPE...

[azhenfud]

And how do you have a “first Production” plane for an airframe that has never flown before.

You buy it all off the shelf like a big Lego kit and put it together.

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Yeah - it flew in “parts” mode....

[PLMerite]

Specializing in express service from the terminal to the village at the end of the runway.

[Blogatron]

Where’s the smoke stack?

[TalonDJ]

DC-9 has the APU intake at the root of the vertical stab

the MD-90 doesn't and the ARJ is based off the MD-90.

[MuttTheHoople]

'Glorious People's Aircraft Will Make Our Red Heart Follow Chairman Mao Forever'.

[lafroste]

Complete with lead wings and cheap plastic parts which fall off in midflight.

I like the strategic placement of the emergency doors - just the right spot to feed fleeing passengers into the turbine engines.

[captain anode]

China’s first fully homegrown commercial aircraft...

Yes boys and gils, and Jackie sold his old cow and planted the 9 seeds from old Uncle Sam DC-9. Tomolow you see how easily Jackie obtain the giant plans for China golden goose.

[naturalized]