Chinese Engine Development

delft said:

To the contrary China should continue to salvage whatever is of value in Ukraine, especially people, while Russia continues to avoid war and Ukraine is destroyed by its own regime.

Click to expand...

Rolls Royce chairman predicts: Chinese-made jet engines coming soon

• Rolls Royce expects China to begin engine manufacturing for jumbo jets, company Chairman Ian Davis said at the Singapore Summit
• "It makes sense for industrialized countries to start doing so," he said

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

|

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Published 1 Hour Ago CNBC.com

The world's second-largest economy will likely start manufacturing engines for jumbo jets soon, according to

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

, a long-time engine manufacturer for commercial and defense aerospace.

"In the long-run, it's very possible and plausible that

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

and other countries will be looking to develop wide-body engines," said Rolls Royce Chairman Ian Davis at the

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

over the weekend. "It makes sense for industrialized countries to start doing so and we assume at some stage of the future that they will come in."


The Shanghai-based

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

, has already begun the development of a narrow-body engine.

The first C919 passenger jet made by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) is pulled out next to a Chinese national flag during a news conference at the company's factory in Shanghai, Nov. 2, 2015.

"It's a big growth market and I think the key, as always, is to make sure you've got competitive products that really offer something to customers," said Davis.

In addition to aerospace and cars, Rolls Royce's other business segments include industrial products for the marine, nuclear and power sectors.

Davis said he continued to expect strong growth from the

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

.

That market "is driven by aggressive strategies to attract traffic and ambitions to build a real hub in the region, not oil prices," he explained.

Click to expand...

• high reliability;
• increased power maintained in hot and high conditions;
• low SFC;
• long service life;
• easy in-service maintenance;
• high repairability;
• stable operation under conditions of heavy smoke and dust;
• low cost of life cycle.

Stealth fighter soon powered by local engines
(

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

) 09:35, March 13, 2017
A domestically developed engine will soon power the nation's latest stealth fighter jet, according to a senior scientist working for Aero Engine Corp of China.

"It will not take a long time for our fifth-generation combat plane to have China-made engines," said Chen Xiangbao, vice-president of the AECC Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials. Chen, also a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was referring to the J-20 stealth fighter.

"The engine's development is proceeding well. We also have begun to design a next-generation aviation engine with a thrust-to-weight ratio that is much higher than that of current types," he said. Thrust-to-weight ratio is considered the top indicator of an aviation engine's capability.

Chen, who is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee, spoke to China Daily on the sidelines of the political advisory body's annual session.

The People's Liberation Army Air Force recently confirmed, without elaborating, that the J-20 has been put into active service. Aviation industry observers said the plane is still equipped with Russian-made engines due to the lack of a suitable domestically developed engine.

Chen said Chinese scientists and engineers are striving to catch up to the world's top players in terms of research and development into cutting-edge aviation engines, but the country still has a long way to go before it can develop and produce world-class engines, Chen said.

"For instance, we are able to develop the two most important components in an advanced engine — the single crystal superalloy turbine blades and powder metallurgy superalloy turbine disks — but in mass production, the products' quality is not very satisfactory," he said. It is a matter of time and persistence to make reliable engines, he said.

"The road to success is filled with setbacks and failures. Each of the world's engine powers has walked this road," Chen added.

Yin Zeyong, head of AECC's science and technology commission, previously said that a good engine is the result of not only good design but also time-consuming experiments and tests.

Despite China's tremendous achievements in science, technology and manufacturing industries over the past several decades, aircraft engine-making remains one of the few fields in which the country still lags behind top players like the United States and Russia. Because of the sophistication of advanced aircraft engines, such as the afterburning turbofan engine, which drives the US Lockheed Martin F-22 and Russia's Sukhoi Su-35, only the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have the technical wherewithal to develop and produce them.

Tang Changhong, chief designer of China's Y-20 strategic transport plane and a member of the CPPCC National Committee, told West China City Daily that the Y-20 will be equipped with indigenously developed engines around 2018 or 2019.

Click to expand...

delft said:

To the contrary China should continue to salvage whatever is of value in Ukraine, especially people, while Russia continues to avoid war and Ukraine is destroyed by its own regime.

Click to expand...