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Air China took delivery of its first C919 on 29 August 2024. The C919 aircraft made its debut outside China, staging a fly-by at the pre-show of the 2024 Singapore Airshow. [73] Also at the airshow, Comac announced an order from Tibet Airlines for 40 C919s. The high-altitude variant ordered will have a shortened fuselage and strengthened ...
The CJ-2000 is a scaled-up version of the CJ-1000 HP spool and combustor core, with 10 compressor stages and two turbine stages. As of June 2018, the new 78,000 lbf (350 kN) engine destined for the COMAC C929 was expected to be demonstrated in 2023 and enter service in 2030.
China hopes the Comac C919 plane will help the country become less reliant on foreign-made technology ... Forbes reported in 2022 that the C919's engine is a variant of the LEAP-1A/1B seen on ...
The LEAP-1C for the Chinese-built Comac C919 reportedly lacks many of the improvements of the other LEAP models over concerns that the technology could be stolen and put into the CJ-1000A engine being developed by another state-owned manufacturer, the Aero Engine Corporation of China. Experts believe that the LEAP-1C is actually an upgraded ...
CNN’s Beijing bureau chief shares his experience flying on China’s first homegrown mainline passenger plane.
China’s C919 single-aisle jet made its international debut at the Singapore Airshow, attracting masses of visitors and hundreds of orders, but analysts say it still has a long way to go before ...
A Turboprop engine based on the Ivchenko AI-24, built by the Dongan Engine Manufacturing Company (Harbin Engine Factory) in several variants. WJ-6: 3,170 kW (4,250 shp) Shaanxi Y-8, AVIC AG600: Turboprop engine; a license-built copy of the Ivchenko AI-20. WJ-9: turboprop derived from the Turbomeca Arriel and WZ-8 turboshaft engines
A Chinese C919 jet arrived in Hong Kong on Tuesday in the Chinese-made plane's first foray outside of mainland China as its manufacturer prepares to take on Airbus and Boeing in the market for ...