The Comac C919, China’s Boeing Killer
In the world of aircraft, a new player’s in town
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8 min readMay 14, 2024
Think China, think cheap manufacturing, cities built for a single product, the factory of the world — a country that can make everything. Except, in vanishingly small areas of the economy, China comes up short. Commercial aviation, at the top tier of engineering, looked beyond their reach.