Commentary In mid-May, the first C919 intended for the first airline customer had its first flight. This is good news for China’s dream of becoming a world-class builder of passenger jets. The bad news is, it’s going to be expensive. A C919 could cost as much as an Airbus A320 or a Boeing 737. That’s very bad news, in fact. Perhaps the only appeal of the C919 was its cheapness. It was supposed to be half the price of its competitors. Now that cost advantage has vanished. It is difficult to offer quality and low cost. Back in the 1990s, the U.S. space agency NASA pursued a philosophy of “cheaper, better, faster.” It worked for a while, but when the missions got more ambitious, this approach ran into problems, including some spectacular failures on flights to Mars....
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China’s C919 Airliner: The Good News and the (Mostly) Bad News
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China’s C919 Airliner: The Good News and the (Mostly) Bad News
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