Chinese State Company Unveils World's Largest Seaplane (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: China has completed production of the world's largest amphibious aircraft, state media has said, the latest effort in the country's program to wean itself off dependence on foreign aviation firms. The state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) unveiled the first of the new planes, dubbed the AG600, Saturday in the southern port city of Zhuhai, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The aircraft, which has a maximum range of 4,500 km (2,800 miles), is intended for fighting forest fires and performing marine rescues, it said. At around the size of a Boeing 737, it is far larger than any other plane built for marine take off and landing, Xinhua quoted AVIC's deputy general manager Geng Ruguang as saying. The AG600 could potentially extend the Asian giant's ability to conduct a variety of operations in the South China Sea, where it has built a series of artificial islands featuring air strips, among other infrastructure with the potential for either civilian or military use.

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Re: Slant eyes are a serious threat to the free

[stealth_finger]

Fascinating. The moderators have downmodded all of the posts using the word 'nigger' because it's an ethnic slur. However, the post in between uses 'cracker', which is also an ethnic slur, and hasn't been downmodded. Apparently if you use ethnic slurs for blacks, it's not tolerated. However, it looks like moderators are okay with ethnic slurs for whites. It appears that the moderators are racist.

Do you know how this site works?

Re: Slant eyes are a serious threat to the free

[Dunbal]

That's because "cracker" refers to white people and white people are HAPPY to be white. There is no "slur".