Two days ago, I was busy, and some magazine friends could not make the trip because of the epidemic, so I could only invite me to write a 14th Zhuhai Airshow 10,000-word report for their magazine, and hurriedly completed, in the process of writing, there are really many discoveries, such as the theme we talked about today, counting down, it is really a lot, which also shows that even if so many sessions have been held, these two years have been held continuously, and many of them are coming for the first time, and there are really many good things.
The first is our domestic large aircraft C919, which first flew on May 5, 2017, and participated in the 14th Zhuhai Air Show in November 2022, which is quite good for the first trunk aircraft produced by COMAC. From the perspective of the air show, elegant, beautiful, fortunate to board the visit, the degree of completion is very high, although it is the last prototype, but it is in full state, looking forward to the day when C919 is officially delivered to China Eastern Airlines, it should be in December, next year we can board.
Army aviation this time is also the first time to participate in the exhibition, I remember the helicopter painted with the military emblem seems to have come around 08, it seems that it may not be the military to participate, the army aviation has been participating in the helicopter air show held in Tianjin before, in 2018 I met Major General Tao Binglan, then deputy commander of the Southern Theater Army and special pilot, he said firmly in an interview with me: The army must fly!
The straight-10, straight-20, and straight-8L participating in the air show this time are all from an air assault brigade of the 75th Army of the Army, the performance is based on low-altitude raid combat operations as a template, the flight action is rapid, the airborne rope landing is clean and sharp, close to the actual combat and emphasizes the ornamentation, it is worth noting that the active Z-10 has been the same as the export type Z-10ME, the exhaust port has been changed to an upward exhaust, it seems that additional armor is also installed, and the new engine is quite powerful.
Next, I have to talk about the J-16 fighter that performed the first flight show in Zhuhai, whether it was the J-11B/BS/BH or the J-16, these Chinese descendants of the Su-27, have not performed at the Zhuhai Air Show, the 13th in 2021, the J-16D is the first time to come to Zhuhai, but there is no performance, this J-16 takeoff performance, can not help but recall the Russian "Warrior" flight display team, the earliest 3 air shows There are also Russian Gromov test flight institute Su-27 and Su-30, Whether it's the performance action, the roaring engine (the turbofan-10 "Taihang" and the AL-31 should be different, but this time it sounds like the fury that tears the air), or the dazzling throwing jamming bombs, it is reminiscent of the early Zhuhai air show.
The J-20 has participated in 4 air shows so far, and has become everyone's old acquaintance, but landing at Zhuhai Jinwan Airport is the first time, which was unimaginable before, the 11th session in 2016 was only 100 seconds amazing, and now it is almost a static exhibition, but also plus takeoff and landing, for a type of the most advanced fighter, the open scale is very large, because the static exhibition reveals a lot of details, such as this time, and careful aerial photographers found a subtle difference between the two J-20s, Why is it so generously displayed?
It can only be said that the J-30 may have taken shape.
I remember half a year ago still mysterious Y-20, this time it was generously exhibited for the first time, to put it bluntly, if the secrecy can only mean that the quantity is too small, now the production capacity of Y-20 is estimated to be much stronger than the annual production capacity of the C-17 produced in the United States that year, so the Y-20 will soon be in service in large quantities, and the short board of large tankers is tightly filled.
In terms of unmanned aerial vehicles, the detective-10 is also the first time to participate in the exhibition, this name is the name after service, previously called Yunying in the manufacturer's booth, that is the export type, single-engine design, self-use is twin-engine, it is also the world's first unmanned electronic reconnaissance aircraft put into service, can carry out electronic reconnaissance, electronic countermeasures, mounted anti-radiation weapons dry wild weasel mission.
Just count the first time to participate in the exhibition is so much, in fact, there are many more, every time I come to the air show is full of harvest, and this time the pictures are much better than before, and the giant cannon masters who shot several T's are not comparable, but every day idle to flip through the pictures, is a very pleasing thing, next time to talk!