Tweet China, one of the world’s fastest growing economies, plans to unveil its first home-made jumbo jet engine in 2016. The engine will outfit the locally developed C919 aircraft and put them in competition with global players Airbus and Boeing. “China is expected to complete the research on its first jumbo jet engine in 2016 and begin […]
China, one of the world’s fastest growing economies, plans to unveil its first home-made jumbo jet engine in 2016. The engine will outfit the locally developed C919 aircraft and put them in competition with global players Airbus and Boeing.
“China is expected to complete the research on its first jumbo jet engine in 2016 and begin to apply for aviation certificate from the state aviation authority,” the official Xinhua news agency cited the engine maker as saying. “We hope the home-made engine will fly together with the home-made large aircraft,” Zhang Jian, general manager of the Shanghai-based AVIC Commercial Aircraft Engine Co Ltd, was quoted as saying. Developing aircraft engines will help China break the monopoly of foreign suppliers such as GE, Rolls-Royce and the Pratt and Whitney Group, the reports said.
Although the first batch of home-made jumbo jets are likely to be powered by foreign-made engines, Chinese engines will be used in later models, Wang Zhilin, deputy general manager of the engine company, AVIC, was quoted as saying.
China will exhibit a model of the C919 next month at the Asian Aerospace International Expo and Congress in Hong Kong, the state-run China Daily reported Thursday.
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when i remember the right way theyjust ordert a big quantity of jumbos again. Maybe they use them only for study