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Boeing and Airbus make almost all of the world's airplanes. Now, China wants in

CNN’s Steven Jiang got a chance to fly in China’s new C919, the country’s first mainline passenger aircraft, made by the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC).

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