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Mitsubishi takes a 1-year delay for its new regional jet

Mitsubishi’s plans to get Japan’s first postwar jetliner out to the flight line in 2017 have been put on hold to reevaluate and redesign some of its structural parts. The new delivery date is set for 2018. Japan has largely been out of the aircraft manufacturing business since the end of World War II, although some turbo-prop models have been marketed. Mitsubishi’s experience as an aircraft manufacturer is long: it made many of Japan’s World War II planes. The new MRJ, with 78 and 92…

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Why your airline chose your plane

  As you settle down into your seat, comfortably at the front of the plane (above) or squeezed into the last inches at the back (below), you must have sometimes wondered how the airline chose the plane you’re sitting in or why the schedule…

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Bombardier’s new plane takes off into murky skies

Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier, which along with Brazil’s Embraer, has dominated the market for 100-seat and under regional jets for years, has completed the first successful test flight of its CS300, a plane that can be configured for…

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Mitsubishi takes a 1-year delay for its new regional jet

Mitsubishi’s plans to get Japan’s first postwar jetliner out to the flight line in 2017 have been put on hold to reevaluate and redesign some of its structural parts. The new delivery date is set for 2018. Japan has largely been out of the aircraft manufacturing business since the end of World War II, although some turbo-prop models have been marketed. Mitsubishi’s experience as an aircraft manufacturer is long: it made many of Japan’s World War II planes. The new MRJ, with 78 and 92…

Read More

Why your airline chose your plane

  As you settle down into your seat, comfortably at the front of the plane (above) or squeezed into the last inches at the back (below), you must have sometimes wondered how the airline chose the plane you’re sitting in or why the schedule…

Read More