China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft

AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

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Here's one flying around.

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Blitzo

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cn_habs said:
Is it just me or does Y-20 seem to have more rear wheels than the Il-76? I could be wrong though...

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They're arranged differently. It has three "rows", compared to Il-76's two, but Il-76 has two "columns" compared to Y-20's one, I think. Going purely by wheels, Il-76 has 16 at its rear MLG, Y-20 seems to have 12 (same as A400M).

Schumacher said:
Y20 has a much bigger payload than Il76. It's designed to lift a MBT.
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I think that's flawed logic.

C-17 has 12 wheels for its rear MLG, fewer than Il-76 but it vastly exceeds Il-76s MTOW.
 
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Schumacher

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Deino said:
Actually I can't think of an "un-official" flight before ....
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The flight time of exactly 1 hour looks too precise, and there are talks of earlier flights.
And the official TV has reported on the flight saying it's mainly for disaster relief and other humanitarian stuffs. :)
 
Deino

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But .... even if the CFTE is not as visible as CAC, I can't think that they could have hidden a maiden flight earlier simply due to the size of that bird.

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LesAdieux

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Deino said:
But .... even if the CFTE is not as visible as CAC, I can't think that they could have hidden a maiden flight earlier simply due to the size of that bird.

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who knows, I heard that J-15 did all its landing trainings in Huangjiahu黄家湖wuhan，I'm a local, and I've asked many people, nobody knows anything about it, they must have carried out all the trainings after mid-night.
 
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