On 5 October 2026, Leeham News and Analysis published a subscriber-only piece by contributing writer Karl Sinclair under the headline About That 1,100-Aircraft Comac Backlog. The visible introduction frames the article as a study of how difficult it is to win share in commercial aviation, an endeavour that requires huge amounts of capital and thousands of skilled workers, and then poses a sharper question: how a fledgling airframer might seek to boost the perception of its business. The subject is Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, known as Comac, and the order book of roughly 1,100…