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Of 15 non-Chinese suppliers contacted by Bloomberg about their involvement with the C919, eight — FACC AG, Honeywell, Parker Aerospace, UTC Aerospace Systems, Arconic, Liebherr-Aerospace, Eaton and CFM International — responded. All expressed confidence in the new aircraft and the potential for further collaboration in China.

Article source: https://www.bloombergquint.com/china/2017/05/04/china-s-first-jet-to-rival-boeing-is-helped-by-u-s-technology

Last week, China’s answer to Airbus and Boeing, the Comac C919 commercial airliner, took its first flight ever, live on state-run TV. Not surprisingly, this event immediately prompted an outpouring of patriotism and self-satisfaction within the country. Local reporters gushed, and the state media celebrated the flight as “another fulfilment of [the China] dream.”

A Chinese aviation expert predicted that the plane would “rip a hole” in the Boeing-Airbus duopoly, and ordinary Chinese burst with pride. Even the foreign press heralded the accomplishment, The New York Times called the C919 a symbol of the “industrial might of an emerging superpower.”

So much hyperbole for such a rather workaday occurrence. Congratulations are certainly due to the Chinese aerospace industry for getting the C919 off the ground. But to steal a phrase from Dr Samuel Johnson, it is like a dog walking on its hind legs: it doesn’t matter how well he does it, one is impressed that he can do it at all.

No overnight success

The C919 narrow-body jet, initiated in 2008, seats 150 to 200 passengers, which puts it roughly in the same category as the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320. China has invested $9 billion in the program, and Comac, China’s state-owned commercial jet consortium, claims to have over 550 orders for the plane.

A Chinese aviation expert predicted that the plane would “rip a hole” in the Boeing-Airbus duopoly, and ordinary Chinese burst with pride

Nevertheless, it is a long ways from a successful first flight to delivering a first-rate airliner

Article source: http://www.atimes.com/chinas-new-c919-airliner-turbulence-ahead/

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A few days before the release of The Secrets of My Life, Caitlyn Jenner’s memoir of her journey to transgender womanhood, she and her ex-wife Kris Jenner appeared together on an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. The series is in its 11th year, but until 2015, Caitlyn was very much in the background, depicted as Bruce and as she writes in the memoir, as “a well–meaning but slightly doddering patriarch who has no life of his own and is subsumed by the women who surround him”. Now Caitlyn is centre-stage, giving her ex-wife a primer on gender identity while Kris maintains the rictus of someone who, for once, wishes the cameras weren’t rolling. When Kris asks Caitlyn if she will undergo gender confirmation surgery, Caitlyn flicks her hair and sucks in her cheeks. “Don’t even go down this road,” she says archly. “Because I’m not going to talk about it.”

What Jenner means, I think, is that she won’t talk about it at the Kardashian kitchen table, on Kardashian time, generating Kardashian ratings and revenue. For two seasons she had a perfectly good reality show of her own – I Am Cait – for that, and now there’s the publicity tour for the book. The night after our meeting, she will be interviewed by Tucker Carlson, who replaced Bill O’Reilly on Fox News and two weeks earlier informed a transgender guest on his show that a lot of trans women are

Article source: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/may/08/caitlyn-jenner-bruce-transitioning-kardashians-reality-tv-star

BERLIN, GERMANY — (Marketwired) — 05/08/17 — Frustum Inc., a pioneer in functional generative design and topology optimization software, today announced that its CEO and Founder, Jesse Coors-Blankenship, will be presenting at IDTechEx Show in Berlin on Thursday, May 11th. The session will illustrate advanced freeform geometry methods and how they enable topology optimization to be more fluid, faster to design and support more accurate printing through additive manufacturing. Coors-Blankenship’s presentation will also demonstrate this process for designers, providing examples of how this approach supports concurrent engineering principles.

“Design and manufacturing are undergoing a renaissance, which can be felt across just about every industry today. Airplane parts are being 3D printed, saving fuel costs and improving production. Designers are breaking free of clunky, angular design restraints to create more fluid, stronger and lighter components,” said Dr. Jon Harrop, director, IDTechEx. “Our mission is to bridge the innovation gap between leading technologies and the companies that need them, so it’s exciting to offer our attendees a look at the innovations driving this renaissance.”

Who:
Jesse Coors-Blankenship, CEO and Founder, Frustum

What:
Coors-Blankenship will discuss how technological advances in CAD integrated freeform geometry allowed for topology optimization to be introduced to the designer. Integrating traditional technologies and topology optimization in Frustum’s cloud-based software, Generate,

Article source: http://news.sys-con.com/node/4075208