Mitsubishi talks MRJ sales as new day dawns for Japanese aviation [feedly]

Mitsubishi talks MRJ sales as new day dawns for Japanese aviation
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Having achieved first flight this month, the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) fulfilled a promise that dates back eight years to the Paris Air Show of June 2007: to create the first modern Japanese jet airliner. Like a number of other upcoming airframers, it's using the 70-100 seater large regional jet market to do it.

It is certainly a crowded market, but geopolitics might be on Mitsubishi's side. In the context of the ongoing frosty relationship between the Kremlin and the West that affects Russian aircraft like the Sukhoi Superjet, perception issues around Comac's ARJ21 and C919 in China, and Bombardier's well-documented issues with the CSeries, the Japanese company would appear to be one of the stronger international challengers to Embraer's dominance in the future 70-100 seater battle. The Brazilians, of course, have had their own well-documented issues with the much-vaunted E2 cabin's safety certification... read full article in: http://www.runwaygirlnetwork.com/2015/11/27/mitsubishi-talks-mrj-sales-and-paxex-as-new-day-dawns-for-japanese-aviation/