China Flanker Thread II

[Dizasta1]

What is the average life span of a WS-10 Taihang?

 

[Blackstone]

What is the average life span of a WS-10 Taihang?

Twenty minutes.

 

[plawolf]

Twenty minutes.

I think Abraham Lincoln said it best: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

 

[Lion]

I think Abraham Lincoln said it best: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

He is just another china aviation advancement hater.

 

[rhino123]

What is the average life span of a WS-10 Taihang?

Widely reported in the net (both english and chinese site), the life span of the WS-10A was around 1500hrs. Not sure if that was the official figures, but it had been pretty consistence... and is thus longer than the Russian's counterpart AL-31 that had a reported life span of 900hrs.

 

[Schumacher]

My opinion is that although the WS-10 engines are useable, they are far from mature. As of the most recent Golden Helmet exercises the J-11Bs with Taihang engines still didn't perform as well as their AL-31 equipped counterparts.

Well, keep in mind PLAAF had AL31 equipped J11s to play with much longer than ones with WS10, at least 3 years ??
Takes time not only for the pilots but the ground crew to bring things up to speed before they declare themselves operational & can start engaging in all war-fighting trainings.

I think Abraham Lincoln said it best: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

I had no doubt he is a fool even before he had spoken out.

 

[Dizasta1]

I think Abraham Lincoln said it best: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

Superb answer, PLAWolf!!

 

[asif iqbal]

that was funny!!!

i think Blackstone was being sarcastic no!?

 

[Engineer]

I think Abraham Lincoln said it best: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

Bravo!

 

[no_name]

Looks like J-15 with Taihang