China's C919 Gets "Zero Orders" at Farnborough Airshow: Challenges and Opportunities AwaitAs a global aviation event, the Farnborough Airshow drew top aviation exhibitors from around the world. In just a few days, the show welcomed nearly 70,000 visitors, generating over 80 billion in deals, including over 200 aircraft orders...

China's C919 Large Aircraft: From Failure at Farnborough to Overseas Sales, a Path to the Rise of Chinese ManufacturingIn the 1970s, the world's aviation powerhouses, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the European Union, successively introduced large passenger aircraft, while China was still in its infancy in aircraft manufacturing, with its largest passenger aircraft having a payload of only ten tons. To change this lagging situation, China resolutely decided to develop domestically-produced large aircraft capable of transporting over one hundred tons, becoming the fourth country in the world to possess large passenger aircraft...

C919 Faces Cold Shoulder at Farnborough Airshow: Certification Remains Biggest Hurdle, International Market Path Remains LongAt the Farnborough International Airshow, which concluded on July 22nd in London, Boeing and Airbus once again engaged in a fierce competition, securing 118 and 164 orders respectively. However, the highly anticipated Chinese Commercial Aircraft Corporation (COMAC) C919 large passenger jet encountered an unprecedented "cold shoulder" at the event, failing to secure any overseas orders...