The original article mentioned Huang Weina, who is the chief designer for WS-19 and WS-21. And just as @siegecrossbow said, she is not known to be the chief designer of any other engine.
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The original article mentioned Huang Weina, who is the chief designer for WS-19 and WS-21. And just as @siegecrossbow said, she is not known to be the chief designer of any other engine.
Strictly speaking, the article you quoted exactly says that Ms Huang designed multiple ( 多型, usually more than 2 in Chinese way of describing) models of engines. One possibility is that maybe one of the large UAVs is powered by mid-thrust engine designed by her as well. So let our fingers be crossed before any more precise information is available.
The article specifically mentioned that warplanes that are powered by the two new engine models which she was the lead designer for actually flew over Tiananmen that day.
Note the bolded phrases in the quoted sentence:
As a matter of fact:
- No drones ever flew over Tiananmen Square during the parade as part of the flypast column.
- None of the WS-10 family, WS-15 family, WS-18 family, or WS-20 family is a product of Guizhou, let alone designed by Huang Weina.
- None of the turboprop and turboshaft engines that were powering aircraft and helicopters that flew over Tiananmen Square during the parade were products of Guizhou.
- Nobody would ever use the 呼啸而过 and 掠过上空 phrases for those drones that were mounted on the flatbed trucks and were driven through Tiananmen Square at no more than 50-60 km/h.
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J-35 propulsion contract given to AECC Guiyang research institute. they have designed so far only three major low bypass Engines. WS-13/WS-21 and WS-19.
Ms Huang was in UK for higher studies in propulsion Technologies when WS-13 development completed. she returned to China and immediately joined AECC Guiyang. as per own statement from Guiyang she has more than 30 years experience and worked in multiple programs before. this is related to ''member of a design team'' not as a chief designer coz back then all major Engine programs were under AVIC and had male leaders.
when AECC established in 2016 she is promoted as Chief designer of newly formed subsidiary AECC Guiyang. since then two major projects launched one is WS-21 on the base of previously designed WS-13 with modification and second is a clean-sheet design which is now called WS-19. she has designed two low bypass Engines as a chief designer and the same thing article also mentioned.
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in 2022, Ms Huang first time revealed WS-21 officially and announced J-35 has this Engine and single unit thrust is around 9 tons. she also revealed WS-19 and told. we are the first Engine institute in China to digitalized the design process of Engine which significantly reduced its development cycle.
now in 2024..
this statement is directly from AECC Guiyang institute. now guess which aircraft successfully equipped with Chinese heart in 2024 when WS-21 already fitted on J-35 years ago and she was moved to tears ? obvious its WS-19.
Lady Huang totally transformed AECC Guiyang from cultivated local talent to supply chain of critical parts. coz of her service to the nation she is elected the member of Chinese academy of Engineering last year. out of 72,000 members in all AECC Subsidiaries only 9-10 people are the members of Chinese academy of science and Academy of Engineering.
Naval 35 has wider wings so it is not unexpected.
What do you mean by begun??? They’ve entered service in Anshan in the form of mixed unit last winter if I recall correctly.
Entschuldige, wenn meine Frage mal wieder nicht klar genug formuliert war bzw. ich einen Hintergedanken hatte, den ich nicht erwähnt habe: Also, meiner Meinung nach sind die bislang gesehenen J-35A Batch 00 aka LRIP ... but why only four? Similar the four known J-35A are Batch 01 but again why only four!
Since then (September 2025) we haven't seen a single new serial number for both J-35 or J-35A and only - at least as far as I remember - new-built J-35 since early January.
So to me it seems, those seen in January are the first full serial production aircraft, but all of them are J-35 and at least I don't remember to have seen new green J-35A ... at best maybe this one!
