China's 10-ton electric commercial aircraft makes successful maiden manned flight - China Reporter
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China’s independently developed 10-ton-class electric commercial aircraft, the CE-25A, completed its first crewed flight using its intelligent flight in East China’s Shandong Province on Saturday, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC).  The CE-25A aircraft carried two pilots and a flight test engineer during the flight, operating normally with all
    • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      This is reductionist. Trains are better in the cases in which they are better, and that may be most cases, but obviously not all. China understands this, which is why it has more high speed rail than the rest of the world combined.

    • subversive_dev@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Besides being a cheap shot it’s also wrong.

      Countries and companies all over the world have been working on a small regional electric plane but this one might be the farthest along

      Like other commenters said it’s not always reasonable to connect two points by a rail link for numerous reasons but usually geography

        • subversive_dev@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          Lolwut. “The market has spoken”

          There’s no free market anywhere in the world and especially not in the imperial core. Even funnier is that you prove you didn’t read it because they state clearly this is it’s first manned flight so…it’s not even on the market yet

          I’m familiar with Yogthos’ work, I’m quite certain they understand China much better than yourself.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 hours ago

      Wow, this would be such biting critique if China wasn’t already leading the world with high speed rail by a wide margin. Is there like a test for getting .world account where if you have functioning brain then you get automatically rejected?

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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          2 hours ago

          There are areas of China that have more airport access than highspeed rail access; aircraft are a stop-gap while they continue to build rail. It’s also valuable for countries that haven’t developed their own highspeed rail yet, and these will likely be sold outside China as well.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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          2 hours ago

          Or you know, this is something that can be used where rail is not practical as a complementary technology, and will obviously continue to improve going forward. I love how the mouth breathers in the west can’t even fathom the concept of technological progress. I guess that comes from living in a collapsing society.