That's not a domestic C919, the post was just saying the first normal C919 was delivered this year.
Hopefully the "Better then all expected result" means better fuel consumption as well
COMAC C919
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lcloo
Major
Nah, it will be Huawei moment for COMAC, or the Tian Gong Space station moment for China Space. A few years set back is nothing if COMAC will be emerged stronger than ever after a few short years. Boeing will be down due to lost of a very large and important market.
US ban on engines will aslo make other countries think twice on buying Boeing planes. They might turn to Airbus but then Airbus engines still contains US technologies. Only COMAC planes will be totally free from being banned after they achieved 100% non-US parts or 100% non-US technology content.
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IMO I think it's possible for COMAC to do low rate production through out the rest of this year and next year but they definitely can't use the full capacity of the lines until 2027 when they planned to get the fully domestic C919 done
antiterror13
Brigadier
How about avionic by Honeywell ?
Honeywell has 2 Joint Ventures in China for C919 supply. Flight control system is supplied by HonFei Flight Controls Technology. Braking system is supplied by Honeywell Boyun Aero Systems.
Middle Eastern or Turkish carriers can also fly over Russia.
The WS-20 engine used in Y-20 is based on the CFM-56 so it is like a generation older in terms of fuel consumption. It only started flying recently as well so it probably has low reliability and low MTBOW.
WS-20 has entered in service last year end.. 12+ units of Y-20B identified with serial numbers.
WS-20 gone through years of long testing and derived from WS-10 core machine which is itself a mature engine. so WS-20 looks fine but i doubt COMAC will use this engine . but AEF-1300(WS-20 civil version) is a ready engine for use on any aircraft.
I don't expect them to open extra routes to China tho, so for the time being the only Airlines that could go from EU to atleast northern China in a reasonable amount of time remains Chinese airlines.
IMO, I don't think there is any direct correlation between how new something is and how reliable it is. A well designed engine put through proper testing and certification could be highly reliable with high MTBO from the get go.
Knowing the US sales of aircraft parts will be the next thing to cut. Then they will stop sales of A320NEO with CFM and Pratt & Whitney engines. All US engine exports will be cut. And then they will try to convince Rolls-Royce to stop engine supplies next. They can threaten Rolls-Royce with a boycott of their exports to the US and expropriation of their Allison subsidiary in the US to make them concede.
Iran is more sophisticated than you give them credit for. Iran makes their own turbine blades for CFM-56 engines to service their Airbus aircraft for example. They can maintain their engines by themselves.
The Chinese government should just make a crash program to make its own consumables and parts to supply the existing fleet. The thing is, the air industry isn't as critical for China as for Russia because of HSR.
If Russia could maintain the Superjet flying, China can maintain its Boeing and Airbus aircraft.
Exactly.
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