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Difficult research and development of domestic large aircraft
For many years, the development of domestic large aircraft is one of the dreams of many people, C919 has made this dream come true, but just recently, some people said that the production of domestic large aircraft has encountered difficulties, and the more orders, C919 troubles have followed, what is going on?
For a long time, the domestic and even the world's aviation market has been monopolized by large European and American aircraft, and the flight in the sky is either Boeing or Airbus.
In order to break the monopoly of the West, as early as 2006, the mainland listed the special domestic large aircraft as one of the key scientific research projects, and it is bound to develop China's own large aircraft.
Don't look at large aircraft seems to be very common, but in fact, the development and manufacturing of large aircraft is a large-scale project with extremely high requirements, which not only requires extremely fine technology, but also has strong assembly capabilities.
You must know that there are millions of engineering parts for a large aircraft, and each part is indispensable, and there must not be the slightest mistake in assembly, otherwise it will cause unimaginable disasters.
Therefore, the R&D and manufacturing of large aircraft is actually a huge test of a country's scientific research ability and industrial system, and it is responsible to say that today, there are no more than ten countries in the world that have the ability to manufacture large aircraft, and China is fortunate to have become one of them in recent years.
In 2008, Continental established Commercial Aircraft Co., Ltd. and began to intensively plan the research and development of domestic large aircraft.
From the beginning of research and development in 2008 to the delivery of the first batch of C919 large aircraft in 2022, for more than ten years, scientific researchers have worked hard every day to overcome thousands of problems, and finally created our own large aircraft.
In 2022, Continental's first batch of C919 large aircraft was delivered. As the first self-developed large aircraft in the mainland, the C919 is not only not inferior to foreign Boeing and Airbus in terms of performance, but has even made breakthroughs in some technologies.
According to the researchers, in the research and development process of C919, the researchers have made great efforts and made major breakthroughs in hundreds of key technologies, such as "double-sided curved windshield", "supercritical wing" and so on.
The birth of C919 not only represents another breakthrough in the Western blockade in the aviation industry, but also an important milestone in the mainland's industrial system.
Since Boeing and Airbus have seized most of the global aviation market in the past, even if domestic large aircraft have been introduced, many people are still pessimistic about the prospects of the C919 in the international market.
It is widely welcomed by all countries
Some people believe that old aviation giants such as Boeing and Airbus have occupied most of the aviation market, and the C919 will be difficult to compete with them in any way.
Some countries in Europe have seen China's success and can't sit still at all, such as Luc Titgart, the acting director of the European Aviation Safety Agency, who publicly stated that the certification time of China's C919 large passenger aircraft may take decades.
This is not just a simple business competition, but also a political game between China and the West. If C919 wants to go global, it must break the blockade of the West.
In addition, there are many uneasy and well-intentioned Westerners, whether in aircraft construction or other fields, there are many places that make China stumbling behind their backs, and even maliciously smear the performance of the C919.
Although the competitive pressure is indeed huge, if you understand a little about the market changes in the past two years, you know that we do not need to be too pessimistic about the future market of domestic large aircraft.
Even we can conclude that the demand for C919 in the aviation market will not be less, and it is the general trend for domestic large aircraft to fly to the world. The reason why we dare to make such a conclusion is mainly because of the following two points.
First of all, there is a huge gap in the mainland market, and many people subconsciously ignore China when talking about the aviation market, but they don't know that China is one of the largest aviation markets in the world.
According to survey statistics, in 2021 alone, the mainland will have nearly 4,000 passenger aircraft in operation, of which nearly 3,200 are narrow-body passenger aircraft, and according to Boeing and Airbus estimates, with the continuous growth of China's aviation market, the mainland will need at least 6,700 narrow-body passenger aircraft in 2040.
In other words, by 2040, the mainland's aviation market needs to increase by at least 3,500 passenger aircraft, what a large market share!
And in order to revitalize Chinese aviation, these aircraft will inevitably be filled by C919.
In this way, it seems that the domestic aviation market alone is enough for the C919 to show its powers, but the domestic large aircraft must not stop at the domestic market, and it is our goal to go to the world.
It is much more difficult to achieve this goal than dominating the domestic market, but don't worry, C919 is also determined to go international, some people may ask where the confidence is, the answer is the good performance of C919.
As mentioned before, the C919 has made major breakthroughs in a number of key areas, so it is only stronger than the Boeing and Airbus series in Europe and the United States in terms of performance.
For example, the airliner adopts an aerodynamic design, which can effectively reduce the carbon emissions of the aircraft during the flight, reduce fuel consumption, improve flight efficiency, and greatly help reduce flight costs.
Another important point is that when the C919 was designed and developed, the model was designed as a "high prototype" model suitable for domestic airports.
The so-called "high-prototype" model refers to an aircraft that can adapt to highland routes and highland airports. After testing, it is known that C919 can not only adapt to plateau airports, but also to "high plateau airports", that is, airports above an altitude of 2438 meters higher than ordinary plateau airports.
As we all know, the continent is vast and the terrain is complex, and the C919 can be adapted to high altitude airports, which means that it can be adapted to airports located in all terrains and all altitudes.
This is the biggest advantage and selling point of C919, on this point, the demand for domestic large aircraft in the world aviation market will definitely not be less.
In fact, it is indeed in accordance with this trend, since the delivery of the first batch of C919 passenger aircraft in 2022, orders from all over the world have hit, and today, the total number of orders has reached 1,200, exceeding many expectations, but after the order increases, it has encountered a lot of trouble.
Difficulties in mass production
In this year's Singapore terminal, the mainland's C919 passenger aircraft made a big show and was favored by many international airlines. After the air show, the C919 received orders for more than forty aircraft, and so far, the total order has exceeded 1,200 aircraft.
This marks that the mainland's domestic large aircraft has entered the global market, which was originally a happy thing, but soon some people raised questions.
It turned out that since the first batch of C919s was delivered at the end of 2022, only five C919s have been successfully delivered in a year and a half, which has to be too slow.
It has been calculated that at this rate, it will take at least 20 years to complete the current order for 1,200 aircraft.
This is undoubtedly unacceptable, so what is the reason for all this?
First of all, as I said before, the manufacture of large aircraft is a huge project, and the industrial system required is very powerful.
Although the mainland already has the ability to manufacture large aircraft, but because the C919 has just been born, at present our manufacturing is still based on ensuring quality, without a practical grasp of the situation, we can not blindly pursue quantity, if there is a problem with an aircraft, it is undoubtedly a major blow to the reputation of domestic large aircraft.
In addition, the production and assembly of large aircraft is a rather delicate and complicated work, and the mainland has not yet established a corresponding production line for the mass production and assembly of large aircraft.
According to the production staff, the current mainland C919 assembly workshop is located in Shanghai, but the production of each part is distributed throughout the country, separated by thousands of miles, so when assembling large aircraft, it is necessary to deliberately transport parts from all over the country to Shanghai for assembly in order to complete the final production, which greatly slows down the progress of production.
From the current point of view, it is not realistic to complete the serial production of the C919, but we do not have to be discouraged about it.
More than ten years ago, almost no one believed that China could develop its own large aircraft, and today, we have not only achieved this goal, but even promoted the domestic large aircraft to the world, which is already a leap that many people can not imagine!
I believe that as long as we do not give up our efforts, we will be able to achieve the goal of mass production of large domestic aircraft in the future.
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Resources:
China Daily: C919 overseas debut adds a new model to international cooperation
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Finance: China Eastern Airlines' fifth C919 domestic large aircraft was delivered
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Baidu: Orders exceeded 1,000, but delivery was slow, where is the difficulty in C919 delivery?
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CNR: Civil Aviation Expert Interpretation: How complicated is it to make a C919 large aircraft?
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