China Civil Aviation, AVIC (MA600) & COMAC (ARJ21/C919/C929)

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Chinese-made large passenger jet passes assessment for maiden flight

SHANGHAI, March 25 (Xinhua) -- China's first large domestically designed and built passenger jetliner has passed a major technical assessment, bringing it a closer to its maiden flight, sources with the developer said Saturday.

An evaluation committee consisting 63 aviation specialists from across China has agreed the C919 is technically ready for its maiden flight, said the Shanghai-based aircraft maker, Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) in a press release.

The experts have worked in seven teams to assess the jet's design, structure and performances, which they have tested in labs, on board and during low-speed taxiing, it said.

The committee has proven the C919 is technically airworthy but the jet is still subject to electromagnetic compatibility and taxiing tests before it takes to the air.

The jet was built in 2015 and COMAC completed the onboard systems installation as well as major static and system integration tests before the technical assessment.

The C919, with over 150 seats and a standard range of 4,075 kilometers, is expected to compete with the updated Airbus 320 and Boeing's new-generation 737, which currently dominate the market.

By the end of 2016, 21 customers had placed orders for more than 500 C919 aircraft, and COMAC expects to sell at least 2,000.

China's first regional commercial aircraft, the ARJ21, began commercial operation in June 2016.

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@Get Ya Wig Split, you come closer to the threshold, just few more

COMAC C919: The China's Jet - SPIEGEL Online - 25.03.2017

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[Hindustani78]

http://indianexpress.com/article/wo...-passes-assessment-for-maiden-flight-4585418/

By: PTI | Beijing | Published:March 25, 2017 6:48 pm

China’s first homegrown large passenger plane has passed a major technical assessment, bringing it closer to its maiden flight as the Communist giant seeks to challenge the dominance of western aviation giants like Boeing and Airbus in the global market. An evaluation committee consisting 63 aviation specialists from across China has agreed that the C919 — a twin-engine, narrow-body aircraft similar in size to the Airbus 320 and Boeing 737 series of jets — is technically ready for its maiden flight, the Shanghai-based aircraft maker Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) said.

The aircraft is designed to compete head-to-head with its Airbus and Boeing rivals. The experts have worked in seven teams to assess the jet’s design, structure and performances, which they have tested in labs, on board and during low-speed taxiing, it said.

The committee has proven the C919 is technically airworthy but the jet is still subject to electromagnetic compatibility and taxiing tests before it takes to the air, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The jet was built in 2015 and COMAC completed the onboard systems installation as well as major static and system integration tests before the technical assessment.

The C919, with over 150 seats and a standard range of 4,075 kilometers, is expected to compete with the updated Airbus 320 and Boeing’s new-generation 737, which currently dominate the market, the report said. Both Airbus and Boeing have assembly plants in China considering the growing demand for new aircraft.

Airbus had delivered 153 aircraft to Chinese operators last year, its seventh consecutive year of more than 100 deliveries, AirbusChina said earlier this year. A recent Boeing forecast said China will need 6,810 new aircraft in the next 20 years at an estimated cost of USD one trillion. By the end of last year, 21 customers had placed orders for more than 500 C919 aircraft, and COMAC expects to sell at least 2,000.

China’s first regional commercial aircraft the ARJ21 began commercial operation in June last year.

 

[Title1234]

By the way, do we have confirmed the number of orders for both the MA60 & MA600 ??

Nice cabin

 

[lcloo]

Today 2017 April 16th, COMAC C-919 carried out the first high speed taxi run.

After the several scheduled high speed taxi runs are completed, the maiden flight shall follow, likely to be in May.

 

[cirr]

Today 2017 April 16th, COMAC C-919 carried out the first high speed taxi run.

After the several scheduled high speed taxi runs are completed, the maiden flight shall follow, likely to be in May.

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[Keel]

C929飞机已启动工程发展规划
2017-04-14

中国航空报讯：4月8日，“中俄产业投资合作”系列研讨会之“中俄民用航空合作与金融支持”专题研讨会在北京举行。研讨会由丝路规划研究中心、中信改革发 展研究基金会、中国俄罗斯友好协会、秦皇岛市人民政府联合主办。全国政协副主席、丝路规划研究中心理事长、中国俄罗斯友好协会会长陈元，俄罗斯上议院议 员、俄罗斯中国友好协会会长德米特里·费奥多罗维奇·梅津采夫，中国商飞总经理贺东风，航空工业民机部部长庞真，中国航发民机办主任龚海平以及政界、航空 界、金融界的中俄专家学者出席研讨会。
陈元表示，中俄之间最突出、最亟须的优势互补领域就在民用航空工业领域，在重大飞机项目上的共同研发、联合制造。中俄当前在民用航空工业领域已经开始推进大型宽体客机和重型直升机等项目，中俄联合发展民用航空工业可以形成互惠互利的格局。

陈 元强调，中国民机工业当前正面临从单通道客机向宽体客机的产业跨越，中国商飞的C919飞机在2017年将完成首飞，走向适航取证的工程发展阶段。 C929飞机的中俄联合工作团队正在组建中，已经开始了工程发展的规划。中国在民机工业领域的合作推动模式，可以参考、借鉴空客建立和发展的历史成功经 验，要有明确的战略目标。同时可以率先从金融支持进行创新突破，支持中俄合作企业共同进行一批航空分支技术的联合研制。用孵化、投资引导中俄两国的潜在供 应商企业，迅速与宽体客机、重型直升机项目进行型号、产品的零部件配套。希望在大型客机的复合材料、航空电子等零部件产品门类中，中俄都能仿效空客的机体 复合材料联合研制的格局，对中俄企业之间的合作建立优先的金融支撑项目。

随后，50多位中俄专家学者以航空产业及科技合作、航空产业发展与金融服务为主题展开分组讨论。来源：中国航空新闻网



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C929 aircraft has started engineering development planning
2017-04-14
China Aviation News: April 8, "Sino-Russian industrial investment cooperation" series of seminars "Sino-Russian civil aviation cooperation and financial support" seminar held in Beijing. The symposium was jointly organized by Silk Road Planning Research Center, CITIC Reform Development Research Foundation, China Russian Friendship Association and Qinhuangdao Municipal People's Government. Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Chairman of the Silk Road Planning Research Center, Chen Yuan, President of the Russian Friendship Association of China, Member of the Russian House of Representatives, President of the Russian Association of China Friendship Association Dmitry Fyodorovich Meguevse, General Manager He Dongfeng, Minister of Aviation Industry Civil Affairs Pang Zhen, Director of China Aviation Administration Office Gong Haiping and political, aviation, financial circles of Chinese and Russian experts and scholars attended the seminar.

Chen Yuan said that the most prominent and most urgent advantages between China and Russia in the field of civil aviation industry, in major aircraft projects on the joint research and development, joint manufacturing. China and Russia in the field of civil aviation industry has begun to promote large-scale wide-body aircraft and heavy helicopters and other projects, the Sino-Russian joint development of civil aviation industry can form a mutually beneficial pattern.

Chen Yuan stressed that China's civil aircraft industry is currently facing from single-channel aircraft to wide-body aircraft industry across, China's commercial flight C919 aircraft will be completed in 2017, the first flight to the proof of the development stage. C929 aircraft in the Sino-Russian joint work team is under construction, has begun the planning of engineering development. China's cooperation in the field of civil aircraft industry to promote the model, you can refer to learn from Airbus to establish and develop the history of successful experience, there must be a clear strategic objectives. At the same time can take the lead from the financial support for innovation breakthroughs to support Sino-Russian cooperative enterprises to jointly carry out a number of joint development of aviation branch technology. With hatching, investment and guide the potential suppliers of China and Russia enterprises, rapid and wide-body aircraft, heavy helicopter project models, product parts supporting. It is hoped that in the category of composite materials, avionics and other parts of large passenger aircraft, China and Russia will follow the pattern of Airbus's composite materials and establish a preferential financial support project for the cooperation between Chinese and Russian enterprises.

Subsequently, more than 50 Chinese and Russian experts and scholars to aviation industry and technology cooperation, aviation industry development and financial services as the theme of group discussions. Source: China Aviation News Network

ARJ-21-900 (Top) and ARJ-21-700 - Xiamen Airline graphics

 

[Makarena]

will we finally see China's Air Force One for real this time?

 

[HannibalBarca]

will we finally see China's Air Force One for real this time?

Too small for an Air force one...

 

[Daniel808]

Too small for an Air force one...

No, It's Big enough.
COMAC C929 is in the same class with Airbus 340, Boeing 777, and Iluyshin-96M.
Remember, Russian Air Force one is Iluyshin 96M, France and Italy air force one is Airbus-340.

 

[HannibalBarca]

No, It's Big enough.
COMAC C929 is in the same class with Airbus 340, Boeing 777, and Iluyshin-96M.
Remember, Russian Air Force one is Iluyshin 96M, France and Italy air force one is Airbus-340.

it was about the 919 (A320 Equivalent) not 929...

 

[Makarena]

Too small for an Air force one...

I was actually talking about 929

 

[ahojunk]

China-made C919 passenger jet to take off soon
(Xinhua) 09:33, April 19, 2017

Photo taken on April 11, 2017 shows a C919, the first large passenger aircraft designed and built by China, in a hangar in Shanghai, east China. The C919 passed the last expert assessment on Tuesday, its manufacturer announced. (Xinhua/Ding Ting)


SHANGHAI, April 18 -- The C919, the first large passenger aircraft designed and built by China passed the last expert assessment on Tuesday, its manufacturer announced.

The aircraft was given the go-ahead to begin a series of high-speed taxiing tests, the last step before its maiden flight. The process usually takes one to two months.

According to Shanghai-based Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC), 25 experts from Chinese research institutes, civil aviation administration, and domestic jet makers formed Tuesday's assessment panel. They reviewed the preparedness of both the aircraft and ground services for the maiden flight.

In March, the aircraft passed a major technical assessment.

The C919, with over 150 seats and a standard range of 4,075 kilometers, is a medium-haul commercial aircraft.

The Chinese jetliner was rolled off assembly line in 2015. COMAC said 21 customers had placed orders for more than 500 aircraft by the end of 2016, and it expects sales to exceed 2,000.

China has invested heavily in commercial passenger jet manufacturing. The ARJ21, its first regional aircraft, began commercial operations in June 2016.

 

[yusheng]

【国产下一代客机长啥样？中国臭鼬工厂放大招】4月21日，商飞“灵雀B”在湖北荆门漳河机场成功首飞。“灵雀B”是新一代民机气动布局的喷气式缩比飞行验证机，翼展超过6米，最大起飞重量240千克，采用大边条翼融合布局和可收放起落架，机身大量运用复合材料。研制团队“梦幻工作室”被誉为中国商飞的臭鼬工厂。

【 what next generation domestic aircraft looks like? China skunk factory shows 】 on April 21, comac "spirit finches B " in hubei jingmen saw its first successful flight at the airport. "spiritFinch B " is a new generation of commercial jet flight test machine, pneumatic layout a wingspan over 6 meters, maximum take-off weight 240 kilograms, the layout and the big wing of edge fusion can gear on, fuselage use of composite materials in large quantities.Development team has been hailed as a "dream studio" comac skunk works.