China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft - esp. Y-20/YY-20

[gelgoog]

I wonder if they will re-engine the older Y-20s with WS-20.

 

[vincent]

I wonder if they will re-engine the older Y-20s with WS-20.

Since WS-20 has higher thrust, wouldn’t replacing the WS-18 requires strengthening of the wings?

 

[Blitzo]

Since WS-20 has higher thrust, wouldn’t replacing the WS-18 requires strengthening of the wings?

Not necessarily. If the original wings were designed from the outset to be rated for WS-20s anyway then it could be done fairly simply.

The bigger question for re-engineing older Y-20As with WS-20 is the rate of WS-20 production -- i.e.: it makes sense for the foreseeable future that WS-20s equip new build Y-20B airframes, and then only once WS-20s greatly exceeds the requirement of new build Y-20B numbers + spares, then they could look at re-engineing Y-20As

 

[by78]

A few more high-resolution images of Y-20Bs.

 

[by78]

Two more high-resolution images of Y-20B.

 

[by78]

A few more images that show off the fan blades nicely.

 

[gelgoog]

Those are old style fan blades like in CFM-56 or PS-90. Still a huge improvement over the D-30KP.
I wonder if Saturn offered the D-30KP-3 Burlak or not.

 

[Tomboy]

Those are old style fan blades like in CFM-56 or PS-90. Still a huge improvement over the D-30KP.
I wonder if Saturn offered the D-30KP-3 Burlak or not.

It's similar to the fan blades in CFM56 series 5, series 7 had wide chord blades.

 

[sunnymaxi]

Those are old style fan blades like in CFM-56 or PS-90. Still a huge improvement over the D-30KP.
I wonder if Saturn offered the D-30KP-3 Burlak or not.

as per AECC official Weibo account, with this new Engines aircraft speed , capacity and range have increased. so yeah Huge improvement over older D-30KP machine..

it is also cheap to produce this old clappered fan blades in comparison with wide chord/composite.

 

[tamsen_ikard]

Is china working on a bigger transporter similar to the c-5 galaxy range?