Chinese Engine Development
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Harbin Dongan Civil Aviation Engine Co., Ltd (哈尔滨东安民用航空发动机有限公司) was officially formed at a ceremony held yesterday. The company is a joint venture funded by AECC, Zhenxing Advanced Manufacturing Private Equity Fund, and AECC Asset Management Co. Main products include the WZ-16 turboshaft, helicopter transmissions (for AC313A and AC332, etc.), and auxiliary power units.
This seems very far along in development…
32.4% "end thrust" increase is quite something.
Ehh don’t think that number is in context of total thrust relative to previous engines. The paper looks at performance for different run modes so I think that number is probably relative to some other performance baseline conditions.
Oh no I'm aware. I was saying a 32% increase even if it's compared to itself is impressive.
I think my general takeaway briefly skimming the paper is that this engine is going to have very good transient thrust and also very good thrust retention across different flight envelopes.
There was a paper about a two-stream variable cycle engine that was suspected to be based on the WS-10 quite some time ago now, actually.