New Japanese passenger jet takes to the skies

• Advanced technologies supplied by UTC Aerospace Systems (NYSE:UTX) helped enabled today's successful maiden flight of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet, the first passenger plane developed in Japan in more than half a century.
• The MRJ is a family of 70-90 seat next-generation regional jets under development by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation. The company has so far received orders for more than 400 planes.
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