China's first jumbo jet to take off in 2014

[no_name]

I'm sorry, but for the year 2010, Candians are 11x richer than Chinese and 39x richer than Indians.

The worth of 1 Canadian life = the worth of 39 Indian lives.

How many ordinary peasant's life is Bernard Madoff worth?

 

[Akasa]

I actually think the Canadian economy is going to do well over the next 50 years. As commodity prices go up, our economy is on solid footing in terms of natural resource export. We'll like the Arab oil states but with a balanced society and a thriving private sector.

Told my parents to get some of their USD to CAD at 0.78 and now it's sitting at 1.03.

Natural resources in terms of timber, yes. But please don't mention the mess we got our oil sands into.

Our economy is strong in terms of the potential, but we are tapping that away if we keep let foreign energy companies to invest in our resources in Alberta. Our private sector depends on US foreign-based companies too much.

But hope for the best that it will remain strong and rich.

 

[milvipes]

Probably safer than Russian jets.

 

[ptldM3]

^^^ Unless this aircraft receives international certification due to close collaboration with some of the leading aerospace companies such as Boeing, Snecma and many more I doubt that it is safer than, something like the Super jet 100. Also are you implying that Chinese aircraft engines are safer than Russia's?

 

[tanlixiang28776]

Unless this aircraft receives international certification due to close collaboration with some of the leading aerospace companies such as Boeing, Snecma and many more I doubt that it is safer than, something like the Super jet 100. Also are you implying that Chinese aircraft engines are safer than Russia's?

It is working with GE, Honeywell, and Parker.

Uses CFM series engines

 

[ptldM3]

The Sukhoi Superjet 100 also worked with some of those companies and much more, more importantly it has passed a number of tests for its international certification. And at the end of the day Sukhoi is the big boy of aviation.

Seems like the Taiwanese Mexican homeboy needs to do a little better reasearch before he makes assumptions.

 

[CardSharp]

Six Dead as An-148 Plane Crashes in Southern Russia


All six people on board were killed when an Antonov An-148 airplane on a test flight crashed Saturday in the village of Garbuzovo in southern Russia's Belgorod region, an Emergencies Ministry spokesman said.

Two Russian pilots (Yu. P. Zubritsky and V. I. Yasko) and two flight engineers (A. S. Samoshkin and A. A. Korolyov), as well as two Myanmar nationals (Htein Lin Aung and Zaw Htun Aung) were on board the aircraft.

No one on the ground was killed, according to the Emergencies Ministry.

The aircraft, which belonged to the Voronezh Aircraft Plant, went off the radar screens at 10:40 Moscow time [07:40 GMT] and crashed shortly afterwards.

The plane was being tested prior to delivery to Myanmar, which ordered two last year for government use.
Russia's Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on charges of violation of flight safety regulations resulting in the negligent homicide of two or more people, RIC representative Vladimir Markin said.

The Prosecutor General's Office said it had launched its own probe.

Transport prosecutors from the Belgorod and neighboring Lipetsk regions are headed for the crash site.

The An-148 is a twin-turbofan powered regional airliner, seating up to 100 passengers.

The An-148 made its maiden flight in December 2004 and tests continued through December 2006.

There have been five serious technical incidents involving the aircraft, including landing gear and control system malfunctions.

On June 4, 2010, there was an autopilot failure on board an An-148-100 flying at 10,600 meters en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg. It landed safely at the destination airport.

In March 2010, an An-148 originating from St. Petersburg crash landed in Samara after its landing gear became stuck. There were no injuries in the incident.

Last year, Russian state airline GTK Rossiya strongly criticized the reliability of its An-148 aircraft, which are produced by the Voronezh plane maker and Ukraine's Kiev Aviation Plant AVIANT, citing problems with door locks, as well as engine and APU failures.
MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)

 

[tanlixiang28776]

The Sukhoi Superjet 100 also worked with some of those companies and much more, more importantly it has passed a number of tests for its international certification. And at the end of the day Sukhoi is the big boy of aviation.

Seems like the Taiwanese Mexican homeboy needs to do a little better reasearch before he makes assumptions.

No need for personal insults.

As for sukhoi it can go right ahead. In civil aerospace safety as well as price are king.

 

[ptldM3]

Six Dead as An-148 Plane Crashes in Southern Russia


All six people on board were killed when an Antonov An-148 airplane on a test flight crashed Saturday in the village of Garbuzovo in southern Russia's Belgorod region, an Emergencies Ministry spokesman said.

Two Russian pilots (Yu. P. Zubritsky and V. I. Yasko) and two flight engineers (A. S. Samoshkin and A. A. Korolyov), as well as two Myanmar nationals (Htein Lin Aung and Zaw Htun Aung) were on board the aircraft.

No one on the ground was killed, according to the Emergencies Ministry.

The aircraft, which belonged to the Voronezh Aircraft Plant, went off the radar screens at 10:40 Moscow time [07:40 GMT] and crashed shortly afterwards.

The plane was being tested prior to delivery to Myanmar, which ordered two last year for government use.
Russia's Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on charges of violation of flight safety regulations resulting in the negligent homicide of two or more people, RIC representative Vladimir Markin said.

The Prosecutor General's Office said it had launched its own probe.

Transport prosecutors from the Belgorod and neighboring Lipetsk regions are headed for the crash site.

The An-148 is a twin-turbofan powered regional airliner, seating up to 100 passengers.

The An-148 made its maiden flight in December 2004 and tests continued through December 2006.

There have been five serious technical incidents involving the aircraft, including landing gear and control system malfunctions.

On June 4, 2010, there was an autopilot failure on board an An-148-100 flying at 10,600 meters en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg. It landed safely at the destination airport.

In March 2010, an An-148 originating from St. Petersburg crash landed in Samara after its landing gear became stuck. There were no injuries in the incident.

Last year, Russian state airline GTK Rossiya strongly criticized the reliability of its An-148 aircraft, which are produced by the Voronezh plane maker and Ukraine's Kiev Aviation Plant AVIANT, citing problems with door locks, as well as engine and APU failures.
MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti)

Nice attempt to troll but Antonov is Ukrainian. Further, the discussion was about Sukhoi, more precisely the Super jet 100.

 

[cross1993]

At least for now, we are not qualified to show off to Russian.
Plz wait for China-jumbo-jet after the birth, talk about it.

 

[ao333]

Nice attempt to troll but Antonov is Ukrainian. Further, the discussion was about Sukhoi, more precisely the Super jet 100.

There's no contention here. The Chinese C919 is an assembly of parts sourced from across the world. They don't make the engines, the radars nor the avionics. It's more like Airbus, whereby the company sources its parts from across Europe, than Boeing, which produces the majority of plane parts by itself. The Chinese can't even make AL-31s without significantly lowered durability. Do you really expect them to produce civilian turbo fans?

I think the Chinese here are over enthusiastic about their pretensive scientific accomplishments.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

There's no contention here. The Chinese C919 is an assembly of parts sourced from across the world. They don't make the engines, the radars nor the avionics. It's more like Airbus, whereby the company sources its parts from across Europe, than Boeing, which produces the majority of plane parts by itself. The Chinese can't even make AL-31s without significantly lowered durability. Do you really expect them to produce civilian turbo fans?

I think the Chinese here are over enthusiastic about their pretensive scientific accomplishments.

Please, get lost.

When did China ever make the AL-31 engine?

 

[pluto]

it is no shame confessing that it is a low tier plane. not as good as Boeing or Airbus.
but it is a step forward, meaningful. and the international markets have more choices, at least the prices bid by Boeing and Airbus will drop, good for all.
did this remind you of Huawei and ZTE which run into the same situations when they appear to be a competitor to western telecommunication companies like Alcatel, Siemens, Lucent, Northtelecom? see, they are giants now.

One dares not to take a small step forward, he can only dream. so good work, Chinese industry. they are progressing, ain't they?

 

[Aramsogo]

I think the Chinese here are over enthusiastic about their pretensive scientific accomplishments.

I would cut the Chinese people some slack. The C919 is a miraculous achievement for China. When Boeing started designing the first 747, Chinese people were doing this (Great Leap Forward):

 

[marshall]

There's no contention here. The Chinese C919 is an assembly of parts sourced from across the world. They don't make the engines, the radars nor the avionics. It's more like Airbus, whereby the company sources its parts from across Europe, than Boeing, which produces the majority of plane parts by itself. The Chinese can't even make AL-31s without significantly lowered durability. Do you really expect them to produce civilian turbo fans?

China buys AL-31s from Russia, it doesn't make them. It makes an AL-31 class turbofan, the WS-10A which is used on its newer J-11s.