China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft
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2nd one is probably AI, none of the features match up. It's likely they took the close in photo and used AI to "expand" it.
But this would mean concerning the second confirmed flight yesterday ONLY this Image is real?
So called "Y-30" spotted again. More on weibo.
This might also be real, the AI picture is likely someone trying to expand this image into a picture of the entire plane using AI hence everything that is added in like the wingtip and the other half of horizontal tail is all wrong.
This photo also might be fake
The only real prototype has China’s red flag on the vertical tail fin. So this is also fake!
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Going by what he/she mentioned and assuming that the information is (close-to) accurate, then ~80-90% of MTOW at 80 tons would mean an MTOW figure range of 88.9 tons - 100 tons for the Y-15.
For reference, the Y-9's MTOW is about 65-70 tons.
In the comment section:
Going by what he/she mentioned and assuming that the information is (close-to) accurate, then ~80-90% of MTOW at 80 tons would mean an MTOW figure range of 88.9 tons - 100 tons for the Y-15.
For reference, the Y-9's MTOW is about 65-70 tons.
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I don't see why 80 tons wouldn't be MTOW. It's a perfectly servicable figure for a Y9 replacement. Quite useful and in line for a 4 engine turboprop of said size. The fact that the plane's fuselage is wide should not be any indication of mtow. Rather, that useful cargo to mtow ratio is lower than for a narrow body plane. Meaning less cargo weight carried than in a narrow body transport. But that is perfectly okay because that's exactly what one wants from a transport plane - volume rather than weight, if one has to be prioritized.