After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukraine War, Russia encountered a series of sanctions from the Western camp. The Russian aviation industry was also forced to switch to its own engines in full due to the cut off supply of Western engines. After seeing the recent experiences of Russia, my country has also begun to take action and suddenly accelerated its pace in the field of commercial aero-engine .
According to the official official account of China Aviation Development Company, just after the National Day holiday, the company organized a special mobilization meeting to accelerate the airworthiness evidence collection work of the Yangtze River 1000A commercial aviation engine. And Yangtze River 1000A is the "heart" of my country's future domestic large aircraft C919.
At present, American and European companies still occupy an absolute dominant position in the international commercial aerospace industry market. Especially in the field of dual-engine narrow-body single-aisle passenger aircraft with the most widely used and the largest market demand, almost all passenger aircraft in this category use two engines: the PW1000G series of the United States Pratt & Whitney Company and the LEAP series produced by the US-France joint venture CFM International. my country's large domestic aircraft C919 currently uses the LEAP-1C engine.
Figure Note: LEAP engine
. Like my country's development of C919, Russia has been vigorously promoting the development of its domestic passenger aircraft MS-21 in recent years, but when the MS-21 was initially developed and formulated, Russia did not have a suitable commercial engine at hand. Therefore, like our country, Russia chose to use Western engines first and then switch to domestic engines.
But slightly different from my country is that Russia chose Pratt & Whitney's PW1000G series engines, but after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Pratt & Whitney was unable to provide engines to Russia under pressure of sanctions. Russia could only switch to its own PD-14 in advance. Russia's experience also proves to the world that although under the wave of economic globalization, the manufacturing of commercial passenger aircraft and other products is increasingly focused on international division of labor. But under the new geopolitical conditions, as long as you still want to maintain independence, you must ensure that you have certain domestic capabilities in key areas.
Picture Note: MS-21
equipped with Pratt & Whitney engines is worth noting that in the field of civil aviation, my country has some advantages that Russia cannot match. That is, my country's civil aviation industry has a better development prospect. The international civil aviation industry generally predicts that in the next 20 years, China will become the world's largest civil aviation market, with the demand for more than 50 new passenger aircrafts, with a total market value of up to US$1.4 trillion.
Therefore, the business prospects of C919 are far stronger than those of MS-21. As long as C919 can gain a foothold in the domestic market, ComAC will have hope in the future with the two giants Boeing and Airbus .
By then, the United States and Europe will inevitably not take up sanctions weapons again, starting from the field of aerospace engineering to hinder the production of C919. Therefore, only if the Yangtze River 1000A completes airworthiness evidence collection and allows the C919 to be equipped with a "domestic heart", can my country completely avoid the occurrence of dangerous situations. This also explains why China Aviation Development Company will hold a mobilization meeting to promote the airworthiness evidence collection process of the Yangtze River 1000A.
Picture Note: Yangtze River 1000A
In addition, aviation engines have always been a relatively weak link in my country's aviation industry. Although in the military field, my country has successfully developed many engines such as turbofan 20 that can match the world's top-level engines, before Yangtze 1000A, my country did not have any commercial large bypass ratio turbofan engine. Therefore, completing the airworthiness evidence collection of the Yangtze River 1000A one day earlier will allow you to accumulate valuable experience in related fields as soon as possible, laying the foundation for the AEF-3500 project with stronger momentum in the future.
After all, in addition to the C919, which is benchmarked against narrow-body passenger aircraft such as Boeing 737MAX and Airbus A320neo, CR929, which competes with long-range wide-body passenger aircraft such as Airbus A330\A350, Boeing 777\787, has also been put on the agenda. As the Russian aviation industry department has focused its main focus on projects such as MS-21 and clearly stated that it will reduce the participation of CR929 projects, my country will take the lead in the CR929 project. By then, the heart problem of CR929 needs to be solved by AEF-3500, which is in line with the Yangtze River 1000A.
Figure Note: CR929
Judging from the recent actions of the Chinese and Russian aviation industries, with the frequent wave of the "sanction stick" by the Western camp led by the United States, the international division of labor based on the background of economic globalization has been affected. But when camp confrontation has long become the political correctness of the West, it is so difficult to let the West understand that its actions threaten the stability of the global economy.
Therefore, although the first batch of C919 produced using CFM engines is expected to be delivered to domestic airlines for use within the year, my country can still obtain engines from the West in a short period of time, the earlier it is replaced with the Yangtze River 1000A, the more beneficial it is to our country. I believe that with the convening of this mobilization meeting, China Aviation Engine will bring us good news sooner.
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