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The Rise Of Chinese Jets - ARJ21, C919, C929, C939 | COMAC's Answer To Boeing And Airbus! - YouTube
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in this video
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we will explore the chinese aviation
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market
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and the four chinese jets that will
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rival boeing and airbus for the next
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century
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everything from small regional jets to
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lumbering aircraft to rival the boeing
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747
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and airbus a380 what are they
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and what will they be like to fly and
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why the western worlds have noticed
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let's crack open this fortune cookie and
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find
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out
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the aviation market is made up of two
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big
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players boeing and airbus and as well as
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embraer
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but soon there may be a third player who
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rivals the two friendly giants
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comac comax stands for the commercial
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aircraft corporation of china
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essentially china's economy is
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snowballing so much
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that they need to ensure that they have
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their own aviation industry
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to keep up with demand china plans to
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build an extra 200
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airports over the next 15 years to cope
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with this relentless growth
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spurt and only last year boeing's own
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commercial market outlook projection
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said that china would require 8090
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new passenger aircraft plus related
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aviation services
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over the next 20 years a market that is
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worth
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2.9 trillion dollars
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so honestly why doesn't china take a
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chunk of that domestic market for
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themselves
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why give money to the west when you have
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scores of engineers
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and a chance to build a healthy local
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economy
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after all it worked for cars and trains
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planes are essentially the same well
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kind of
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but we'll get into that so what are the
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aircraft that comac
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is planning to bring to the market there
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is the arj21
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which stands for the advanced regional
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jet
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nicknamed the soaring phoenix in the
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local language
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then there are the three brothers the
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c919
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the c929 and the c939
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c standing for comac nine for forever
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and the last two digits for how many
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tens of passengers
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each aircraft can carry so let's
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break this down and start with the
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smallest of the four the arj21
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the arj had its first flight in 2008
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but it took seven years to be delivered
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to its first customers
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32 of these aircraft are currently
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flying across
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china and there are 208 reported
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orders there are two versions a
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90-seater-700
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and 105-seater-900
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the base model only has a range of 1200
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nautical miles
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which is the equivalent of the very
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first boeing 737
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from 1967. but there is an additional
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upgrade to boost it up to 2000 nautical
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miles
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while small as it's designed for
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regional travel in china
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it doesn't actually require the distance
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that
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is for the next in the series next up we
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have the c919 which is the equivalent to
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the boeing 737 and the airbus a320
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which are both the most popular aircraft
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ever built
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there is only one version which can seat
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168 passengers in an all-economy layout
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or passengers with a business class
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it has similar engines to the boeing 737
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max
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which allow it to fly a range of 2 200
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nautical miles
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again there's an extended range version
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that can push this up to 3 000 nautical
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miles
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and this aircraft is allegedly very
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popular with over 1 000
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orders now just a quick side note
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when i say orders for this aircraft that
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needs to be taken with a grain of salt
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as nearly all of these orders are from
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chinese carriers
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who are owned by the government or
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they are nations in developing regions
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that have significant chinese investment
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or they are from engine manufacturers
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who are providing the engines for the
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planes
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so far no western airline has shown
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any interest in the comac aircraft but
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we will get to that later
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so far six prototypes of the c919 have
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been built for flight testing
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and it cost around nine billion dollars
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so far to produce them
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although again other sources have
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sneakily suggested that the real cost is
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closer to
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20 billion dollars hey everyone it's me
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real life nick from found and explained
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has anyone else watched this video and
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realized that they're
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actually using the gladiator theme song
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yes the one from the film um from
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way back when it's really strange to
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just hear that
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you know just taken and totally ripped
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off i'm sure they didn't get permission
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but
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anyway back to the video after the c919
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we have the c929
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or the craic cr929
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this aircraft has two names because
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there's actually a joint venture between
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comac and the russian united aircraft
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corporation
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or uac this aircraft is an attempt to
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replicate the success of the airbus a330
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and the boeing 787 this aircraft would
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fit up to 291 passengers
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with two classes or 440 passengers in a
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single seating class
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or it could even fit all of my current
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subscribers
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so if you want to get on this chinese
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plane with me hit that subscribe button
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down below and i'll be sure to send you
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a ticket
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anyway back to the plane there will be
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three versions of this plane with
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progressively more seats
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for less range speaking of range this
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plane will
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have a default range of 6480 nautical
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miles
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or 12 000 kilometers with the two
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partners believed that they will sell
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around a
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thousand of these aircraft over the next
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10 to 20 years
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for an investment of 13 to 20 billion
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dollars
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the last the most recent news from the
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camp is that progress has slowed down
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and the first delivery to customers has
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been pushed back to 2029
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whilst we don't know the real reasons
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the head of the russian
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effort admitted it it was to do with
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international cooperation
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so i'll let you read into that in your
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own time
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now for the last and most significant of
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these aircraft
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is the mysterious c939
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now very little is known about this
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aircraft or
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it will even be built in the age of
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boeing's 747 retirings and airbus a380
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production line
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shutting down what we do know is that
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the c939 will seat over 400 passengers
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in a twin engine twin aisle
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configuration
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much like the biggest triple 7x in the
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airbus
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a350 it could even be expanded to the
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same
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size of the boeing 747 although at this
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point
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many of those ideas may be irrelevant
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because outside of china
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they may find few customers part of the
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reason why chinese made aircraft are not
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popular
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is because of the engines at the moment
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china can't produce the same level of
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quality jet engines for all of these
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projects
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so far they have been working with ge
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rolls royce and
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others to power and make these planes
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fly
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and it doesn't just stop with the
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engines comac is also working with
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french designers to build the interior
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of these planes right down to the
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lavatories
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plus if you're an airline and you order
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this aircraft
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how will you maintain them china doesn't
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yet have
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a worldwide spanning maintenance and
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parts network
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that airlines can easily access unless
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you're on the border of the nation it
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will be very expensive to operate these
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aircraft and likely you will suffer the
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same fate as interjet
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as they did with their russian-made
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regional jets
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lastly each of these aircraft need to be
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certified in each country in region
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around the world a very long process
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from an unproven company
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and for a brand new plane type these
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hurdles that will take them a long time
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to overcome
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but we'll eventually overcome them
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those that have watched this video and
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have laughed about this
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attempt should remember that boeing also
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wants laughed at airbus
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and look at them now if you enjoyed this
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exploration of the comac range
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and what to expect in the future then
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check out my other videos about soviet
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and russian aircraft
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pop in stay a while subscribe and enjoy
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all things never built
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thanks so much for watching
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