Chapter 1308 C929 Detailed Design Review

At the end of December 2007.

Liu Tao came to the 011 Aviation Base again.

It was the detailed design work of the C929 domestically produced aircraft that was reviewed by experts.

Liu Tao once again served as the leader of the review expert group and participated in this review meeting.

Prior to this, China already had two domestically produced large aircraft in the passenger aircraft field, the Yun-10 and the C919.

Among them, the Yun-10 is a four-engine large jet airliner, and it is also the first large jet airliner designed and manufactured by China with complete independent intellectual property rights.

The successful development of the Yun-10 aircraft has made China the fifth country to independently develop large jet airliners after the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia and France.

From its first flight to delivery, and then to now, the Yun-10 has achieved great success.

But no matter what, the development team of the Yun-10 aircraft was originally based on the Boeing 707. Even if it was improved based on China's technology later, it was not advanced as a whole.

C919, this is a jet medium-range trunk passenger aircraft with independent intellectual property rights developed by the development team based on Huaxia's technology. From the beginning, it was developed in accordance with international airworthiness standards and designed for the 150-seat single-aisle narrow-body aircraft market.

It can be said that C919 is excellent and successful.

But its positioning is a medium-range trunk passenger aircraft, a 150-seat single-aisle narrow-body aircraft!

Huaxia, of course, cannot be satisfied with only Yun-10 and C919!

So, there is C929!

From the beginning of its design, C929 was positioned as a wide-body medium- and long-range passenger aircraft, that is, a long-range wide-body passenger aircraft between the Boeing 767 semi-wide-body passenger aircraft and the Boeing 787 passenger aircraft.

The indicators determined at the beginning were that the maximum take-off weight was 180 tons to 230 tons, and the number of passengers was 200 to 230 seats. The range indicator is in the range of 7,000 to 12,000 kilometers.

This is one-third more than the number of passengers on the C919 passenger aircraft, and the range has also been greatly improved.

The development indicators of C929 are larger than the current Boeing 767 passenger aircraft, but slightly smaller than the Boeing 787 passenger aircraft currently being developed by Boeing.

In terms of technology, the C929 wide-body medium- and long-range passenger aircraft is definitely the most advanced twin-engine long-range wide-body passenger aircraft in the world. Neither Airbus's A330 nor Boeing's 777 can compare.

After years of hard work, the C929 wide-body passenger aircraft has finally ushered in the detailed design review stage.

The country attaches great importance to the C929 wide-body passenger aircraft, because this is a passenger aircraft that will fly intercontinentally, and it is a large aircraft that can fly directly from China to the United States, South America or Europe.

From the perspective of national defense and security, this kind of aviation transportation should naturally be firmly in the hands of the Chinese. After all, if a secret door is left, the loss of a plane crash is very shocking, and the casualties will be very heavy.

To put it in a darker way, an Airbus or Boeing aircraft is no different from a large missile at a critical moment.

To see how much damage a passenger plane can cause, just look at the losses in the United States during 9/11.

There is no tall building in the world that can withstand a passenger plane crash.

In the past, there was no other way. China had to purchase Airbus or Boeing aircraft to meet China's growing aviation needs and promote China's civil aviation industry.

Since China has successively developed regional aircraft and trunk aircraft, the number of domestic aircraft in civil aviation has increased.

For example, now China's regional aircraft are all passenger aircraft models of Yun-13, Yun-8, and Yun-9, among which Yun-13 passenger aircraft is the most. And after the successful development of Yun-10, the number of Yun-10 aircraft of China Civil Aviation Company has been increasing every year.

The same reason also appears in C919.

If you can use domestic passenger aircraft, you will not purchase the same type of Airbus or Boeing aircraft.

On the other hand, this is also from the perspective of cost-effectiveness. The same model of domestic aircraft is much cheaper than Boeing and Airbus aircraft.

Of course, there is another very important reason, which is for the development of the aviation industry.

The aviation industry is definitely a high value-added industry with a long industrial chain and high profits. Only when there are more high value-added industries can more high-paying jobs be provided.

Japan has never given up on large passenger aircraft, but after investing heavily, it has not seen any shadows until now.

The expert group this time can be said to be quite large, and experts in various professions are all top experts in China.

Liu Tao is also very satisfied with the progress of C929. If nothing unexpected happens, C929 can be finalized during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" and mass production and delivery can be carried out during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan".

By then, the entire Chinese aviation industry will be larger and more advanced.

And you must know that C929 is not the end point. When C929 is successfully developed, C939 will inevitably be developed.

C939 has been approved and is a long-range wide-body passenger aircraft.

As for the C949 developed during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", it will be an ultra-large wide-body passenger aircraft, benchmarking Airbus's A380 passenger aircraft and Boeing 747 passenger aircraft.

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If one more Y-10, C919, C929, C939, or C949 is sold, Airbus and Boeing can sell one less plane, which can weaken the other by one point.

One gains while the other loses, and eventually wins in the competition.

Liu Tao is looking forward to it. In a few years, China will be able to manufacture a super-large double-decker long-range passenger aircraft like the A380. That will definitely be a very proud thing.

The detailed design review of the C929 passenger aircraft is expected to last for seven days.

This also means that everyone will be busy with the review work during the three-day New Year's Day holiday.

However, no one will complain, after all, this is a great thing.

After the review meeting officially started, Liu Tao made an important speech, in which he expressed satisfaction with the development of the C929 wide-body long-range passenger aircraft.

In his speech, Liu Tao affirmed the work of the development team and also asked Guifei and other units to strengthen marketing and publicity efforts to get more orders for the C929 wide-body passenger aircraft. At the same time, they should do a good job in the production of the prototype of the C929 wide-body passenger aircraft and the construction of the production line.

By now, the production capacity of the C919 passenger aircraft is already very strong.

The development of the industrial chain and employment opportunities driven by the production of the C919 passenger aircraft are very considerable.

By next year, the annual production of C919 passenger aircraft will reach 100, and this production capacity is still climbing.

Although the outbreak of the US subprime mortgage crisis has deeply affected Europe and Japan, the world seems to be in an economic development crisis, and even China is greatly affected.

But in fact, China's development speed is not slow.

As the country promotes the stimulation of the domestic consumer market and stimulates the scale of the domestic consumer market, through tax cuts and subsidies, residents are more willing to consume, which makes a lot of production capacity originally used for export turn into internal consumption.

All countries envy China very much. On the one hand, residents' savings are very huge, so huge that China's habit of saving money has not changed until now; on the other hand, China's national debt ratio is very low, debt is very low, and financial conditions are good. No matter what happens, it will appear calm.

Like now, through macro-control measures to stimulate residents' consumption, the impact of the US subprime mortgage crisis can be minimized.

Although there is still some impact, it is no longer relevant to the overall situation. (End of this chapter)