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To: RealMuLan who wrote (2130)	12/19/2003 10:44:22 AM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6370

First China-made feeder liner to go into production ARJ21, the first China-made feeder passenger plane, will soon be put into production in Shanghai, Xi'an, Chengdu and Shenyang at the same time. According to staff members of the Air China Commercial Airplane Co. Ltd., the company will first produce the basic plane of 85-seats, then an extended one and a general-purpose one. These planes will be finally assembled in Shanghai and a trial flight is scheduled for 2006, and then the company will put the plane into commercial operation. This will inject fresh vigor into China's aviation industry. As a key civil project in the nation's 10th Five-year Plan period (2001-05), ARJ21 is a new-type turbo fan aircraft reaching advanced international level and having complete intellectual property rights. Designers took the Golmud Airport and the Yellow Dragon Airport in Jiuzhaigou (under construction) as critical conditions and used 57 airlines in west China to test ARJ21's adaptability. The standards are much higher than Denver Airport in the United States as usually taken by foreign jet designers. As a result, ARJ21 can adapt well to the plateau environment in west China, and does not need to reduce its load to secure safe flights on summer days, as do imported jets. ... english.peopledaily.com.cn