Posted on 05/02/2024 12:50:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
China’s first home-grown narrowbody passenger jet has passed a battery of “deep level” safety tests as part of a step that is expected to help the C919 find overseas markets as its rival Boeing wrestles with a list of mechanical woes.
China Eastern Airlines Technology, a subsidiary of the group that owns C919 operator China Eastern Airlines, concluded four days of “A-inspection” tests on Monday at a hangar in Shanghai, the Civil Aviation Administration said on Tuesday.
The aircraft is required to undergo safety checks after either every four months, 700 flight hours or 500 flight cycles – meaning the operation of an engine from take-off to landing – depending on which threshold is reached first.
A crew of more than 60 checked the aircraft – referred to as B-919A by China Eastern Airlines – and tested its engines, landing gear and all equipment in the cabin, according to the regulator.
“The Chinese aircraft builder has a chance to compete with Boeing,” said Alexander Vuving, a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies in Hawaii.
“The Chinese will offer a better price, and of course they will advertise their aircraft of similar quality as Boeing and capitalise on all the scandals that Boeing has run through in the last couple of years.”
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AVIATION PING!...................
“.....they will advertise their aircraft of similar quality as Boeing.......”
Not if they want to sell any...................
Who benefits from making maintenance problems look like manufacturer problems?
At this time I would still fry Boeing or airbus. Chinese quality is till rife with corruption and non spec parts.
Boeing sucked up to Chicoms big time, especially back in the Clinton era.
I’m sure they gave Chicom s all their trade secrets.
Fake-spec parts are a big problem in aviation.
Fake-spec parts generally do not come from USA, Canada, or Europe.
I'll give you three guesses as to which very large east-asian country is the usual source ...
“ Chinese quality is till rife with corruption and non spec parts.”
The take home message.
ahhhhh....there’s a clue....
think sabotage instead
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”....
now that they can knock off the boeing, all they need to do is eliminate the competition.
and that explains why boeing is being taken down systematically.
this.
eliminate, disable, impede, slander, etc...
Fry. Snick
10% of this for the Big Guy could add up pretty quickly.
“ Boeing To Resume Operations At Chinese Facility”
“ The majority of demand will likely be for single-aisle aircraft like the 737 MAX. These, in particular, have been plagued with issues that led to a global production suspension of the aircraft; the hope is that the resuming of operations will remedy these issues more efficiently to avoid future conflict.”
“ Boeing is attempting to stave off losses with diversified investments across China. The Zhoushan facility, a joint venture with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) established in 2018, delivered its first Boeing 737 aircraft in early 2019. The facility was created to address the rising demand for Boeing aircraft domestically within China and its flourishing domestic travel industry, as well as across the Asia-Pacific region. Boeing also has a composite parts factory in Tianjin, a services center, and a training campus in Shanghai.”
IMHO the Chinese versions can fly more efficiently since their inside vertical space doesn’t have to be more than five and a half feet.
Boeing will reap what it sows. If I remember correctly, Boeing gave its wing technology away to the Chicoms during the Clinton days.
Boeing is committing suicide with their DEI woke pandering crap.
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