The C919, manufactured by the government consortium Commercial Aircraft Corporation, has capacity for 160 passengers.
The big challenge for China to EADS and Boeing already has launch date: 2014. That's the year will begin flying the first airliner that could compete directly with both selling the sector: the A320 and 737.
A duopoly in which you want to get the C919, made by the government consortium Commercial Aircraft Corporation (Comac) and has capacity for 160 passengers. Its aim is to gain share in the segment of medium-haul, the more will grow in the medium and short term. On the table, a business is at stake than the 480,000 million dollars, which is the value of China's demand in this sector in pr oximes twenty years, as estimated by the manufacturers.
Comac The deputy general manager, Guanghua Wu, project leader of large aircraft in the country, said today the official Global Times newspaper that the C919 "is running smoothly and that the design Preliminary aircraft was completed last year, in a statement obtained by Reuters.
also reported that this year will continue to progress in the design, but in more detail to increase in future, the number flight test to verify the prototype, certify the airworthiness of the aircraft and deliver it on time to customers. The development of large aircraft requires a huge engineering, materials research and development of special systems.
C919 researchers and resolved several technical problems and managed to overcome key technologies based on the same day. The C919 is on the market in 2016, when it plans to obtain formal certification of operation.
Industrial Partnerships The Asian company has won the final backing for the project after sealing deals with a group of airlines of the same country (such as Air China and China Eastern Airlines), but also with the leasing division of General Electric (Gecas), which has shown interest in purchasing this model. Comac already adds more than a hundred requests, but does not reveal the total amount of contracts.
This initiative will also work in the U.S. and European suppliers, which include CFM International, a joint venture between General Electric and France's Safran, which was awarded a contract for 7.358 million euros for the C919 engine manufacture.
A competition announced
EADS and Boeing maintained a dispute over seven years by illegal aid to launch aircraft in the WTO, where they agree on what should be the rules of this business. Meanwhile, emerging countries seriously threaten their duopoly. Next to the Chinese model, the Embraer grows in U.S. medium-range aircraft and an aircraft manufacturer Bombardier composite materials to compete with the two giants.
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