China

Finishing touches made to home-grown jetliner

(newsphoto/Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-06-28 17:36

 

Employees assemble the wings to the body of an ARJ-21, China's first wholly-made airplane in a hangar in Shanghai, June 28, 2007. The final assembly began on May 30 this year, and the jetliner will come off the production line by the end of 2007 and start test flights in March 2008.[newsphoto]