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The wide-body age of jet travel began in 1970 with the entry into service of the first wide-body airliner, the four-engined, partial double-deck Boeing 747. [13] New trijet wide-body aircraft soon followed, including the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and the L-1011 TriStar. The first wide-body twinjet, the Airbus A300, entered service in 1974. This ...
The Comac C939 is a planned long-range wide-body twinjet airliner family being developed by Chinese Comac as a competitor to the Boeing 777 and Airbus A350. [1] It is designed to be larger than the other two models in its domestically produced aircraft line: the Comac C919 and Comac C929.
High-thrust engines for wide-body aircraft, worth 40–45% of the market by value, will grow from 12,700 engines to over 21,000 with 18,500 deliveries. The regional jet engines below 20,000 lb (89 kN) fleet will grow from 7,500 to 9,000 and the fleet of turboprops for airliners will increase from 9,400 to 10,200.
In June 2011, it was reported that Comac was studying the 290-seat C929 and 390-seat C939 wide-body aircraft. [2] In June 2012, Russia and China entered talks to set up a joint venture between UAC and Comac to develop a successor to the Il-96. Development was expected to take at least seven years and cost $7–12 billion, with a production ...
Launched in the summer of 2016 by United Engine Corporation through Aviadvigatel and NPO Saturn, the 35 tf (77,000 lbf) thrust PD-35 was to be developed until 2025 [29] for 180 billion rubles ($3 billion) including 60 billion for test benches and laboratory equipment, to power future wide-body aircraft including the since-shelved Russo-Chinese ...
Turbofan engines (13 C, 7 P) Turbojet engines ... Hush kit; Hy-V; Hyper engine; I. ... United States military aircraft engine designations; W.
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Douglas Aircraft also studied a smaller double-decker design in the 1960s for the aircraft that would eventually become the DC-10. [5] [6] The first flight of the MD-12 was to take place in late 1995, with delivery in 1997. [3] Despite aggressive marketing and initial excitement, especially in the aviation press, no orders were placed for the ...