Could you please click on 'Follow' to facilitate your discussion and sharing, as well as bring you a different sense of participation? Thank you for your support!Having gone through a historyEditor | went through a historyAs the two major aircraft manufacturers in the world, Boeing and Airbus almost monopolize the civil aviation market worldwide,China is no exception, as it pays up to $20 billion annually to Western countries for the maintenance of passenger aircraft alone.In order to break free from the monopoly position of the two major hegemons, China and Russia announced cooperation on the CR929 aircraft project, in order to break the dominance of Boeing and Airbus

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As the two major aircraft manufacturers in the world, Boeing and Airbus almost monopolize the civil aviation market worldwide,China is no exception, as it pays up to $20 billion annually to Western countries for the maintenance of passenger aircraft alone.

In order to break free from the monopoly position of the two major hegemons, China and Russia announced cooperation on the CR929 aircraft project, in order to break the dominance of Boeing and Airbus.

However, this cooperation did not go smoothly. Due to differences of opinion, Russia officially announced its breakup with China, and China began to develop independently. However, this move has been questioned by many Western countries.

Why did Russia terminate its cooperation with China? Can China successfully break the monopoly of Boeing and Airbus?

01

Sino Russian breakup

For a long time, China has been under the hegemonic rule of two major aircraft manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus, in terms of civilian aircraft, and Russia shares the same situation with China.

In order to break free from the rule of Boeing and Airbus, China began its own exploration of civilian aircraft technology,In May 2017, the C919 aircraft, independently developed by China, successfully completed its first flight.

This also marks a technological breakthrough in China's civil aircraft industry,However, China is still just a novice in the passenger aircraft industry, and it still lags far behind Western countries in terms of core components such as engines and other components.

However, during the development process of C919, China has also accumulated a lot of experience in core components,In order to work together to break the monopoly, China announced cooperation with Russia.

China and Russia will work together to develop the CR929 aircraft. As China and Russia have been helping each other for a long time, they have gained a certain understanding of each other. Therefore, there will not be so many problems or significant conceptual differences in cooperation.

Shortly after the successful test flight of C919, China Russia International Commercial Co., Ltd. was officially established, and the CR929 project was also successfully launched.

However, this collaboration was not smooth sailing. During the development process of the CR929 project,Quickly, there were disagreements between China and Russia. As China was a newcomer in this area, core technologies such as engines mainly relied on Russia.

However, as a partner, Russia has always been secretive and unwilling to share engine technology with China. China can already be willing to spend more money, but Russia is doing this to China.

Afterwards, Russia wanted to reduce its investment in the CR929 project, and they believed that there was a solution that could help them reduce costs, which also made it difficult for China to accept.

And the decisive factor in this is the conflict between Russia and Ukraine,In 2022, there was a sudden conflict between Russia and Ukraine, where Russia directly kicked out all Western suppliers.

This incident directly resulted in the impossibility of purchasing this aircraft without the use of components from Western countries,So isn't it meaningless to develop this aircraft?

If we continue to maintain cooperation with Russia, even if this aircraft is successfully developed, it will become unpopular and no one will buy it at all. It can only be smashed into our own hands.

Due to various reasons, the differences between China and Russia are widening,In the end, Russia announced its withdrawal from the CR929 aircraft project, and after Russia's withdrawal, China did not stop the research and development of the project.

02

Be questioned

After renaming the CR929 project to the C929 project, China began to conduct its own independent research and development. However, after Russia withdrew, China continued to conduct research,Foreign media mocked this and said, "Without Russia providing engines, China's desire to build airplanes is simply a dream

Although the words were hard to hear, their words really hit the nail on the head. After China parted ways with Russia, engine problems did cause China to stagnate several times.

But since ancient times, China has always been the kind where the more you question me, the more I have to hit you in the face,Faced with doubts from multiple foreign countries, China has not chosen to speak out about this.

After Russia withdrew,Although the engine issue is a headache for China, it has also made China deeply realize the importance of engines.

If one cannot master engine technology on their own, it always depends on the faces of others, so the matter of engine technology cannot all rely on the help of other countries. Therefore, China has made up its mind to rely on itself to conquer engine technology no matter how difficult it is.

Due to the fact that Western countries entered the Industrial Revolution hundreds of years earlier than China, they were far ahead of China in various aspects of technology, which was the result of their continuous exploration and accumulation.

And China has lagged far behind them in the aviation industry for many years, so there is a big gap in technology. However, China has already made up its mind to conquer engine technology.

Under the continuous efforts of researchers, what they didn't expect was that the technology related to engines did not seem as difficult as imagined.

This is because the principle of aviation engines is actually to compress air to supply combustion,And now conventional fuels are already the limit of humanity, and no country can break through this limit because there are theoretical limits to some things.

It can also be seen that although Western countries started several hundred years earlier than us,But now they have almost reached the bottleneck of engine technology, and it is basically impossible for them to break through, as if they have already stagnated.

So China's technological breakthroughs in engine technology are gradually narrowing the gap with Western countries. With the continuous efforts of R&D personnel day and night, China has developed the CJ-2000 engine.

This engine performs very well. It is the most advanced high Bypass ratio turbofan engine in China,The propulsion power of the CJ-2000 engine is also twice that of the originally planned Russian PD-35 engine.

Even in terms of thrust to weight ratio and energy consumption, it has more advantages. Its thrust can reach 35 tons, and two CJ-2000 engines can fully push the C929 aircraft with a weight of 220 tons.

The CJ-2000 engine has fully met international safety standards and has been able to successfully rank among the world's most advanced generation of civilian turbofan engines, at the same level as foreign engines that have been leading us for hundreds of years,It has also successfully propelled China Airlines to the forefront of the world.

03

Shocking the world

With the continuous efforts of Chinese aviation researchers, the CJ-2000 engine has been successfully developed, and the C929 aircraft will also be equipped with the engine developed by China spontaneously.

This news has already been spread, causing a huge uproar worldwide. They expressed disbelief that China can complete such top-notch engine development work in a short period of time.

After all, their country is many years ahead of China,But now China is on par with them in terms of aviation engine technology, which is also difficult for them to accept.

This news also announced to the world that China's aviation technology will henceforth be able to stand at the forefront of the world like Western capital countries.

Before the successful release of the C929, China's successful development of the C919 narrowbody aircraft posed a threat to the dominance of Boeing and Airbus.

For this reason, the United States has also specifically framed Chinese made aircraft as having great potential safety hazards, so it refused to issue Airworthiness certificate,But what China is best at is slapping the face. With the successful success of C919 in China, it completely broke the rumors spread in the United States.

By the end of 2022, the C919 had been ordered by a total of 32 customers, with orders even reaching 1035 units and a total amount of 670 billion yuan.

It is worth mentioning that Boeing, as the hegemon, only sold 774 aircraft in the same year, nearly 300 fewer than the C919, which also makes the world understand why the United States is so slandering Chinese made passenger planes.

The success of C919 has also made China the fourth country in the world to manufacture large aircraft, with the other three being the United States, France, and Russia.

The C919 aircraft is actually only a small and medium-sized aircraft, and the C929 is the true large aircraft. It is a wide body aircraft with a body length of about 53.5 meters and can accommodate 290 passengers. However, the C929 has not yet been released.

But we have successfully solved the most difficult engine problem, and the remaining ones are the fuselage problem and avionics problem,And the fuselage and avionics are not a problem for China at all, so the core parts of the C929 have all been completed, and the first flight is only a matter of time.

In recent years, China has not only made significant breakthroughs in the aviation industry, but has also started to shine in multiple fields, greatly enhancing China's global influence.

I believe that on the day of the first flight of the C929 aircraft, it will once again cause a great uproar around the world, surprise those countries that once questioned China, and also show the world the rise of China's aviation technology!

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