China’s COMAC has begun design work on the C939, a large 400 seat wide-body transport that will compete with the Boeing 777X and Airbus A350-1000 at the top of the airliner market according to a report in the South China…
Various specialized and social media have reported on two new versions of the C919 that Chinese airframer COMAC unveiled at two separate events earlier this month. COMAC intends to grow the C919 family to include a stretched and shortened version. Are…
Rostec reports today: “The United Engine Corporation (UEC, part of Rostec State Corporation), as part of Aviation Expo China 2017, has signed a memorandum with the Chinese company AECC Commercial Aircraft Engine Co., Ltd. (AECC CAE). The Memorandum determines the…
Reports (here and here) indicate that COMAC and UAC have signed documents to formally register a joint venture to develop a widebody jet. The concept was first mulled in 2014. That announcement included an image of what the aircraft might…