The main hurdle preventing the sales of the C919 overseas is actually the lack of a global servicing and maintenance network. For the time being COMAC's maintenance network only covers a few major domestic airports. This limits route options and affects the aircraft availability rate.
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A tilt-rotor assembly on display. It could be a turbine-electric hybrid: we'll have to find out more once the Tianjin Helicopter Expo starts.
This has been confirmed to be a hybrid tilt-rotor drive system in the 100kW class, intended for VTOL aircraft in the 2- to 4-ton range.
AECC official website has updated.
The entire front page is covered in one sentence:-
"Providing a series of commercial high-bypass turbofan engines and corresponding services, becoming one of the world's leading manufacturers of commercial aircraft engines!"
one more thing, CJ-2000 is now officially CJ-2000A. it means we have now more than one prototype of CJ-2000A. looks like full scale testing is underway.
The entire front page is covered in one sentence:-
"Providing a series of commercial high-bypass turbofan engines and corresponding services, becoming one of the world's leading manufacturers of commercial aircraft engines!"
one more thing, CJ-2000 is now officially CJ-2000A. it means we have now more than one prototype of CJ-2000A. looks like full scale testing is underway.
All the people freaking out about WS-15 several months ago should come here and apologize.
Why, because people somehow get the idea that China being able to make an F119 equivalent is absurd?
An FAA certificate would have boosted nothing. The FAA suck. The US government fired FAA inspectors en masse many years ago. Boeing is expected to self-police themselves. Which is how we got the 737MAX and other shit like it. The FAA even initially claimed those 737MAX crashes were due to pilot error. They are not trustworthy.
The US is not going to allow Chinese planes to be sold in the US anyway. They don't even allow the sale of Chinese cars with their 100% tariff.
The only thing preventing that is lack of production and support for Chinese aircraft.
i.e. everywhere that matters. The duopoly won't allow competition in their home turf.
Boeing killed Bombardier and Mitsubishi.
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FYI, they have already sold C909 to foreign customers like TransNusa and Lao Airlines without FAA certification. And Vietjet is leasing two Chinese-made COMAC jets to be used on the Hanoi to Con Dao Island route.
Air Asia is in advance talk in C919 purchase, despite it not having FAA certification.
COMAC jets have been flying in air spaces of Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Mongolia, Vladivostok in Russia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Agree i think the main limitation for China and COMAC is production availablity, scale and lack of support/maintainance facilities for COMACs planes(C909 and C919) . Since they arr still very new in the industry and havent set up a large enough production amd maintainance base yet. Thats rhe main issue. Hopefully this coming decade they will improve more in this area and scale up production(which is still very low today). They should be able to at least produce as much if not more planes eveey year than Embraer. That will be a good company to compare and benchmark themselves against for now. Beoing and Airbus are too large and entrenched to be able to compete with them directly for now.