Release DateMarch 24, 2023As congress debates TikTok, China flies its own commercial jet enginePurchase a PDF of this article Chinese social media was abuzz Thursday evening (U.S. time) with apparent footage of a test aircraft flying with the CJ-1000A under its wing, the country’s homegrown jet engine from Aero Engine Corporation of China intended to power its domestically-designed Comac C919 later this decade. The CJ-1000A’s arrival is perhaps the most important development for Chinese civil aviation since the May 2017 […]...
The arrival of an alleged surveillance spy balloon in the skies over the U.S. on the eve of a high level diplomatic visit to China by top U.S. officials rapidly cooled the expectations of the country’s largest exporter to resume single-aisle jetliner deliveries.