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    The ARJ21...

    ...looks a LOT like a B717!!

    it is mathematically impossible for either hummingbirds, or helicopters to fly. fortunately, neither are aware of this.

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    Engines look like they're very compact.
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    Looks like the lovechild of a CRJ-200 and 717.

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    The Chinese built the MD80's & MD90's under license to McDD years ago, it seems that may be behind the similarities of the "new" ARJ21..

    Link to the McDD's press release http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/mdc/96-180.html

    here is a quote from Aviation week's website from 2007
    ...But with opportunities, there are also challenges. China's two aerospace groups, Avic I and Avic II, already have long experience making parts for western manufacturers, but the industry failed in its first attempt at sustaining a domestic assembly line for a western commercial aircraft, the MD-90 of the DC-9 series (and presumed origin of much of the technology in the ARJ21). ....

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    I don't know, but why do the engines remind me of the work Yak?
    It's the fares, stupid

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