Canadian-chinese twinjet airliners

Canada’s Bombardier and China’s Comac have been continuously evaluateing progress of their collaboration on their respective CSeries and C919 development programmes. Their meeting in December 2013 summarised progress of the second phase of the collaboration in areas such as supply chain services, flight training, flight test support as well as sales and marketing. Both companies also reportedly discussed the next phase of their collaboration to explore commonalities between the C919 and CSeries twinjets.

C919’s chief designer Wu Guanghui stated that “a great deal has been achieved since it began working with Bombardier in March 2012”. Comac looks to deepen the partnership in future to realise mutual benefits. Bombardier and Comac began working together to examine similarities between the C919 and the CSeries family in supply chain services, human interface and cockpit design.

The Canadian company is also acting as an advisor to Comac on the latter’s ARJ21 regional jet programme. As part of this effort, Comac will be involved in the “non-flying tasks” related to the CSeries flight-test activities, a move that is expected to help

the inexperienced Chinese airframer with the certification process on the C919. Bombardier and Comac will also work together on sales and marketing activities, and jointly promote the aircraft to customers worldwide.