State-owned company produces the AG600, about the size of a Boeing 737, which can be used fighting forest fires and performing marine rescues
China has completed production of the world’s largest amphibious aircraft, state media has said, the latest effort in the country’s program to wean itself off dependence on foreign aviation firms. [Read more]. |
- Agence France-Presse, World’s largest seaplane unveiled by Chinese state company, The Guardian, July 25, 2016
Chinese workers wave national flags as the Amphibious aircraft AG600 is rolled off a production line in 珠海 (Zhūhǎi) in south China’s 广东省 (Guǎngdōng province). Photo: 梁旭 (Liáng Xù)/AP.
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