China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft

ZachL111 said:

Question just for my sanity, is it more standard for us to refer to the 929 as the CR929 or the C929? I know Russia is likely pulling out of the project,

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, or rather getting dropped from it, and it used to be called formally the CRAIC CR929. It's being called the COMAC C929 though now more often, as I can see from media, both English and Chinese.

This may seem like a niche question, just wondering what is a better reference.

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i have answer this question many times in CR929 aircraft thread..

as of now, there is no official confirmation regarding Russia being a partner in this project. but as per some inside information Russia might become supplier instead of partner after Russian-Ukraine war.

last Month in Paris Air Show, COMAC removed CR929/UAC logo from the aircraft. but it could be only for the show exclusively. nobody knows.

Russia has produced composite wing of CR929.

COMAC right now working on composite fuselage.

lcloo said:

I was not refering to the engine of 1980s, just that Air China has been using 747 since then. Since president Xi is still using 747 from Air China as his presidential jet to make state visits to other countries, thus the 747 engine in question should be the latest version that are on President Xi's 747.

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B-747 latest variant using GEnx engines..

but China have full access to all latest western commercial engines as they are the largest buyer of Airbus aircrafts. like A-350 and Chinese airliners also operating hundreds of Boeing aircrafts.

if they really want to examine engine. they could stripped A-350's Trent XWB and take that engine to the lab.

i m sure they might have done this in the past. but not now

Liming/Xian/AECC civil department are now fully capable to produce any type of turbofan engine..

sunnymaxi said:

i have answer this question many times in CR929 aircraft thread..

as of now, there is no official confirmation regarding Russia being a partner in this project. but as per some inside information Russia might become supplier instead of partner after Russian-Ukraine war.

last Month in Paris Air Show, COMAC removed CR929/UAC logo from the aircraft. but it could be only for the show exclusively. nobody knows.

Russia has produced composite wing of CR929.

COMAC right now working on composite fuselage.

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I didn’t know that as we are in another thread.
Fair, I will do some more digging.

ZachL111 said:

Question just for my sanity, is it more standard for us to refer to the 929 as the CR929 or the C929? I know Russia is likely pulling out of the project,

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, or rather getting dropped from it, and it used to be called formally the CRAIC CR929. It's being called the COMAC C929 though now more often, as I can see from media, both English and Chinese.

This may seem like a niche question, just wondering what is a better reference.

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COMAC still call it CR929.

No matter what is going on behind the scene (IF there is anything going on behind the scene at all), it is CR929 officially for the moment. So we should call it CR929.

taxiya said:

COMAC still call it CR929.

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No matter what is going on behind the scene (IF there is anything going on behind the scene at all), it is CR929 officially for the moment. So we should call it CR929.

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Fair point as well. I will just call it the CR929 for now then, if anything official comes out I will refer to it as the C929.

According to a TV segment, YY-20 can carry more than 100 tons of fuel. I assume this is the total amount from both the integral tanks and the removable tank stored in the cargo bay.

by78 said:

According to a TV segment, YY-20 can carry more than 100 tons of fuel. I assume this is the total amount from both the integral tanks and the removable tank stored in the cargo bay.

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Just for note:
The Il-78M has a total fuel capacity of 138 tons, with the maximum transferrable fuel capacity being 105.7 tons.

With the Y-20s having a larger cargo compartment and larger payload weight capacity (and also with the more powerful WS-20 for the Y-20B onwards) than the Il-76s, I highly doubt that the YY-20A/B will carry less transferrable fuel than the Il-78M.

Just a cool image, nothing more.

A few more high-resolution images of Y-20 and YY-20 from Changchun.