I am not going to defend the figure 10, but you can't seriously get any figure by measuring a power point slide.
Chinese Engine Development
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Oh so I was right!WS-19 is all but confirmed to have a 3D-thrust-vectoring variant. In fact, this was unveiled four years ago in the form of a promotional video, but we didn't know at the time that the engine depicted was the WS-19.
Does anyone know what the bizzare design of the wheels are for?
Apparently this is a remote-controlled/self-driving trolley for carrying and holding turbofan engines in place during installation on fighter jet airframes in fighter jet assembly lines?
Apparently this is a remote-controlled/self-driving trolley for carrying and holding turbofan engines in place during installation on fighter jet airframes in fighter jet assembly lines?
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This is called Mecanum wheels. It can move in any direction with-out turning the chassis of the vehicle/cart, example it can moved like a crab in sideway direction, especially useful in a small restricted space, like directly under the belly or wing of an aircraft.
The mecanum wheel is an wheel design for a land-based to move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Swedish wheel or Ilon wheel after its inventor, Bengt Erland Ilon (1923–2008), who conceived of the concept while working as an with the company Mecanum AB, and it in the on November 13, 1972.
There are large numbers of useful SW packages. One area where China used to be much ahead of others is emulating turbulent flow. It was possibly in 1999 when I happened to meet a Chinese researcher of that area. I joked to him that all kind of approaches have been tried without success in the last 200 years. He said that no, the calculations match very well with measured situations. He was here in Finland as at that time we still had a better supercomputer than China and he needed that. Turbulent flows appear at least near wing tips of airplanes, inside turbine engines and elsewhere. The theory had been invented by one of members of Chinese Academy. I might speculate that some designs for atomic bombs used a rough version of that.
pls factor in the interest over time....time changes expectation
SDF 2035: what do you mean Chinese engines couldn't achieve FTL warp speed. Sooooo laaaamee!!
Would be neat to have ws-10 family, ws-15, f110 and f-119 in it. I'm clearly greedy...