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Commercial aircraft 商用飞机 Bombardier lights a fuse 庞巴迪公司点燃了导火线 Canada s new passenger jet threatens an oldduopoly 加拿大新型客机给两强垄断集团带来威胁 SINCE the late 1990s airlines wanting to buy short-to-medium-haul narrowbody planes with100-200 seats have had little choice but to pick either Boeing s 737 or Airbus s A320. 从20世纪90年代末期开始，想要购买中短途100至200座窄身飞机的航空公司别无选择只能选择波音737或者空客A320。 As orders for such planes have boomed in recent years, aircraft-makers in China, Russia andCanada have been working on new contenders to break this American-European duopoly. 近年来，随着对此类飞机需求的激增，中国、俄罗斯及加拿大飞机制造商们一直致力于研究新的竞争者来打破美欧两强垄断的局面。 On September 16th Canada s Bombardier got there first, launching the maiden flight of itsCSeries plane. 9月16日，加拿大怕巴蒂公司首先达成目标，进行了其C系列飞机的首航。 Bombardier is duelling the duopolists because the prospects for the planes it alreadymakesregional jets of under 100 seats and corporate jetsare not as juicy as those formainstream commercial airliners. | 
