Learn new skills with Skillshare for free for two months at skl.sh/wendover7 Listen to Extremities at ExtremitiesPodcast.com Subscribe to Half as Interesting (The other channel from Wendover Productions): www.youtube.com/halfasinteresting Get the Wendover Productions t-shirt: standard.tv/collections/wendover-productions/products/wendover-productions-shirt Youtube: www.YouTube.com/WendoverProductions Instagram: Instagram.com/sam.from.wendover Twitter: www.Twitter.com/WendoverPro Sponsorship Enquiries: wendover@standard.tv Other emails: sam@wendover.productions Reddit: Reddit.com/r/WendoverProductions Animation by Josh Sherrington Sound by Graham Haerther (www.Haerther.net) Thumbnail by Simon Buckmaster Music by epidemicsound.com Select footage courtesy the AP Archive China Eastern 737 Takeoff Video Courtesy PDX Aviation References: [1] data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.PSGR?locations=CN [2] www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Documents/TopTenPaxMarkets_graph.pdf [3] www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3024610/you-can-buy-russias-putin-pitches-su-57-stealth-jets [4] skift.com/2019/01/08/boeing-edges-airbus-to-stay-worlds-biggest-commercial-aircraft-manufacturer/ [5] s2.q4cdn.com/661678649/files/doc_financials/annual/2019/Boeing-2018AR-Final.pdf [6] www.cnbc.com/2019/02/04/boeing-stock-all-time-high-on-china-demand-production-acceleration.html [7] graphics.reuters.com/ETHIOPIA-AIRPLANE/010091341G7/index.html [8] www.routesonline.com/news/29/breaking-news/283437/what-routes-does-the-boeing-737-max-8-fly/ [9] www.airbus.com/newsroom/news/en/2018/09/airbus--china-assembly-facility-marks-10-years-of-quality-manufa.html [10] www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-and-its-737-max-jets-have-a-china-problem-11554904340 [11] www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/business/china-boeing.html [12] www.apnews.com/88d5235d2107400680d8b0870d30d218 [13] www.marketplace.org/2019/02/11/ceo-americas-biggest-exporter-manufacturing-america-doing-business/ [14] www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-25/airbus-is-said-to-seal-long-awaited-aircraft-order-from-china [15] www.mhi.com/news/story/190625.html [16] ukranews.com/en/news/612803-antonov-planning-to-resume-production-of-an-148-an-158-and-an-178-planes-in-2019 [17] www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/china-comac-919-new-plane-ryanair/