Chinese Aviation Industry
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united aircraft signed contract for 1600 drones in the Dubai air show. TD550, Q100 and Q20 are all sold.
The ARJ21 static testing airframe which is to be displayed at Northwestern Polytechnical University has its front landing gear (replica) installed backwards. This costed 270k RMB (for all landing gear).
SUNNY-T2000, rolled off the production line recently in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province. Featuring a 15-cubic-meter cargo hold, the drone can carry up to 2 tonnes of cargo and has a range of more than 1,000 km at full load. It is expected to play a major role in cross-regional freight transport.
United aircraft's R6000 has completed joint debugging, testing, and research flight missions in Shifang, Deyang, Sichuan Province.
I actually didn't realize they already had their first flight, so this seems like they are further along than I thought.
Harbin Aircraft Industry Group (HAIG) announced expansion in production facility.
Expansion facilities include ''Forging plant, willow assembly plant , sheet and composite plant and to build general purpose aerospace airframe structure manufacturing base''
Upon completion of this expansion project, it will reach the supporting capacity of aerospace airframe structural components with an annual output of 100 helicopters and 30 fighter jets and 20 large aircraft.
Expansion facilities include ''Forging plant, willow assembly plant , sheet and composite plant and to build general purpose aerospace airframe structure manufacturing base''
Upon completion of this expansion project, it will reach the supporting capacity of aerospace airframe structural components with an annual output of 100 helicopters and 30 fighter jets and 20 large aircraft.
I would say that the more accurate translation for the last sentence would be:
Harbin AC certainly won't be building fighter jets and large aircrafts anytime soon. Both their last large-sized aircraft (SH-5) and their last fixed-wing warplane (H-5) were built in the mid-1980s, and they have exclusively focused on rotorcraft and drone productions ever since.
yeah. so i think this expansion is specifically related with big helicopter fleet.