Chapter 1552: Ultimate ambition

The planned C929 passenger aircraft is 55 meters long, has a fuselage diameter of 5.6 meters, a wingspan of 48 meters, a maximum take-off weight of 200 tons, a maximum load of 120,000 liters of fuel, a maximum cruising range of more than 12,000 kilometers, and can perform trans-Pacific For flight missions, the executive cabin adopts a 2-2-2 layout, and the economy cabin adopts a 2-4-2 dual-aisle layout. In the case of a standard 3-level cockpit layout, it can carry 293 passengers. It is planned to use two 25-ton thrust The engine is driven and meets the FAA's "double-engine extended flight" ETOPS 180 minutes standard.
Those who have a little knowledge of the civil aviation industry can see at a glance that this aircraft is aimed at Boeing’s mid-range and long-range model 767, and Airbus just completed its first flight at the end of last year and has not yet officially put into commercial use, the competitive model A330. Go to the market of passenger planes!
Sure enough, after the authorized manufacture of "BAC" aircraft and the successful development of "BACII" and "C919" aircraft, China Commercial Aircraft finally exposed its ultimate ambition to compete in the global mainstream passenger aircraft market!
And this decision will undoubtedly seriously threaten the monopoly of Boeing and Airbus in this market, including the current China Mid-Long-distance transnational and intercontinental passenger aircraft market that is truly open to Europe and the United States!
As soon as the news was announced, there was an uproar in the international aviation industry!
The civil aviation industry is an industry with extremely high thresholds, and it has high requirements for participating companies. This high level refers not only to the technology and financial strength of the company, but also to whether the company can obtain the full support of the government of the country and the region. , And, the basic market that the company owns.
Let’s put it this way, the civil aviation industry has never been a 100% commercialized industry that truly achieves full competition. Otherwise, there will be no need for the European Community to take advantage of the "Mc. Road" to be split up. Its civil aviation The case that the department was acquired by Boeing needed the opportunity of the European Community to approve the anti-monopoly, and bargaining with the U.S. countrymen before finally gaining access to the U.S. market. It will not appear in another time and space. China has a large order. , The so-called "Boeing Diplomacy" and "Airbus Diplomacy" have been conducted with the United States and the European Union.
Both the United States and Europe have been delayed and ambiguous about the signing of the standard mutual recognition agreement with the China Civil Aviation Administration and the granting of the C919 airworthiness certificate because they firmly believe that although China has this type of aircraft, The range of this aircraft is limited and it can only meet the needs of China's domestic routes. At most, it will fly to several neighboring countries. However, on transoceanic and transcontinental routes, China has to buy Boeing or Airbus products. Similarly, airlines other than China have concerns when purchasing this type of aircraft, because the C919 without JAA or FAA airworthiness certificate cannot fly in the skies of Europe and North America, which will greatly restrict it. These customers' purchase needs for this type of aircraft.
Once the C929 is successfully developed, the situation will be fundamentally changed. China has a self-developed mid- and long-range passenger aircraft that can fly transcontinental and transoceanic routes, and will issue CAAC suitable aircraft to Boeing and Airbus in the future. During the flight pass, the space that can be manipulated is naturally much larger...Well, the worst result is that it’s a big deal, right?
Although the probability of this worst-case scenario is extremely low, if you really tear your face and do the last one, you will sharpen your head and want to get a route to China if you see the rapid growth of China's aviation capacity market. For the airlines of various countries, it is simply terrible news. JAA and FAA, which are the management agencies of the airlines, will definitely be under great pressure!
Besides, not all international routes go to Europe and North America. What about South America? What about Africa? There are also many countries in Asia that don’t take FAA standards too seriously. These are markets that can be explored as much as possible. Oh, by the way, there is a big customer, including Rakshasa and other independent alliances. The routes of other countries also need this kind of large aircraft capable of flying medium and long distance routes. Although the current Rakshasa is suffering from a second illness and is dreaming of joining the European Community and even NATO, Tan Er has already used his iron teeth. Bronze Teeth’s Crow’s Mouth gave them a fortune. This matter belongs to the Lifetime series...
By the way, about Raksha’s application to join NATO, although it sounds a bit weird, this is really not made up by the author. In fact, as early as 1954, the year of the 5th anniversary of the establishment of NATO, Soviet Russia The leader of Khrushchev formally submitted a letter to NATO, applying for NATO membership. Khrushchev stated that the existence of NATO is provocative for Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia, but if Soviet Russia is accepted as a member of NATO, this nature will change immediately. After the United States and NATO members met, they issued a statement and officially refused. Nine days later, the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries established the Warsaw Pact, and the global cold war officially began.
After that, after the formal split of the former Soviet Union and Russia, Raksha President Ye Liqing believed that since the Cold War has ended and the Warsaw Pact and the former Soviet Russia no longer exist, Rakshasa has completed self-transformation in accordance with the political system and thinking of the Western world. , Then the Western world should accept Raksha as a "partner", right? So in 1991, he applied to NATO again for "participation"...
According to Tan Zhenhua’s evaluation, this behavior fully exposed the political naivety of this Raksha leader. For the U.S., a Raksha with thousands of nuclear weapons, a land area larger than the U.S. and a population of over 100 million, still It has the potential to develop into a big country that can challenge the hegemony of the United States. For such a country, it must be completely destroyed and strangled. The best result is to promote its continuous division and split into cell-sized countries, just like " "Broken Europe" is the only way to completely lose the ability to compete for global hegemony...
Therefore, Raksha’s wishful thinking application was ruthlessly rejected. Not only was it rejected, NATO, led by the United States, also stepped on the so-called "spirit of contract" that it had always promoted, and blatantly violated the previous agreement with the former Soviet Russia and started NATO. The eastward expansion, the sword pointed to Rakshasa, opened the so-called "dark cold war" era.
In another time and space, Rakshasa's later famous "tough guy leader" also applied to join NATO three times in 2000, 2003 and 2008 after he took office. Needless to say, in fact, it was not until 2008. After that, the "tough guy leader" finally gave up his last illusion of taking refuge in the Western world, and it was only after that year that he finally made up his mind to develop a strategic alliance with China.
Speaking of the return of civil aviation aircraft, when China Commercial Aircraft Corporation announced its decision to develop C929, people in the international aviation industry began to secretly assess how likely it is for China to realize this plan. After all, the development of such an aircraft would not For enterprises, they are all investments with considerable risks. Or is it possible that Huaxia people are just bluffing and adding a bargaining chip to the ongoing standard mutual recognition agreement?