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Disconnecting Russia from aviation’s world order came gradually – then all at once

Jon Ostrower·February 28, 2022

Denial of aviation is a weapon that predates the 21st century battlefield. Yet, with the return of war to Europe, it is also aviation’s Achilles’ heel. With it comes a cascading series of immediate and longer term consequences in the skies as commercial and industrial links are quickly broken after decades of cultivation following the fall of the Soviet Union.

First China Eastern Comac C919 returns to flying after unexplained absence

Jen Meszaros·May 17, 2023

First Chinese single-aisle Comac C919 inches closer to service with China Eastern as the country bolsters its aircraft development ecosystem.

A new Boeing 737 Max for Air China rolls out of the paint hangar at Renton, Wash. on March 23, 2021. Photo Credit Woody's Aeroimages.

Jetliner diplomacy between the U.S. and China looks a long way off

Jon Ostrower·March 24, 2021

Boeing has started building 737 Max aircraft again for China, but the plane maker Comac -- its Chinese counterpart -- are at the mercy of the peculiar adversarial interdependence between China and the U.S.

Three Points: Southwest ready to shop, Airbus thaws & MHI freezes, Comac’s slice of Boeing outlook

Jon Ostrower·October 24, 2020

Boeing floats a new 200 to 250-seater single-aisle, while its most important customer eyes 150 seaters. Airbus tells suppliers to be ready for a 2021 rate increase, while Mitsubishi nears shelving its SpaceJet. Looking closely at Boeing's 20-year outlook, China's first jetliner gets its first real slice of the demand pie.

Three Points: Boeing’s new airplane steps, C919 to Canada, the Airchive

Jon Ostrower·February 4, 2021

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Three Points: 737 Max recertification trials, Comac’s ARJ21 hat trick, Airbus autonomous landings

Jon Ostrower·June 30, 2020

With FAA recertification flights underway, Boeing's last leg to service re-entry for the 737 Max has begun. Comac makes a triple ARJ21 delivery, signaling an important new phase for the China's aerospace manufacturing proving ground. Airbus autonomous airliner flights trials wrap up and illustrate the different paths toward letting and aircraft make their own decisions.

Aerospace enters the era of the less stable duopoly

Jon Ostrower·August 2, 2024

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MA700 turboprop resurfaces in China with chatter about a secret first flight

Jon Ostrower·October 8, 2021

Yet, over the past week, chatter across a cadre of Chinese aviation watchers and social media postings suggested that the prototype MA700 had made its maiden flight around Sept. 23 or 24 from the the Aviation Industry Corporation of China’s (Avic) manufacturing plant at Yanliang Air Base in Xian, where China produces many of its military aircraft. The new April 2021 footage was the first public appearance of any MA700 progress since March 2020 when Avic and Xian rolled-out the first static test airframe. Chinese state media had reported in early 2020 that MA700 was slated to fly before the end of that year.

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Disconnecting Russia from aviation’s world order came gradually – then all at once

First China Eastern Comac C919 returns to flying after unexplained absence

Jetliner diplomacy between the U.S. and China looks a long way off

Three Points: Southwest ready to shop, Airbus thaws & MHI freezes, Comac’s slice of Boeing outlook

Three Points: Boeing’s new airplane steps, C919 to Canada, the Airchive

Three Points: 737 Max recertification trials, Comac’s ARJ21 hat trick, Airbus autonomous landings

Aerospace enters the era of the less stable duopoly

MA700 turboprop resurfaces in China with chatter about a secret first flight

A tempest rages around Boeing’s quiet island outpost in China

737 Max grounding threatens to unravel the aviation certification world order

Boeing postures for a long freeze inside China

China and Russia soften on CR929 tech transfer requirement

Momentum builds against standalone eVTOL vertiport standards

Boeing becomes its own ‘burning platform’

Reliable Robotics secures new funds for uncrewed Air Force flight demos