Plane jointly developed by China, Russia gets name

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By Wang Ying in Shanghai | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-09-29 21:01

The wide-body commercial jet co-developed by China and Russia was named CR929 on Friday.

During a naming ceremony held at Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC), China-Russia Commercial Aircraft International Co Ltd (CRAIC), a Shanghai-based joint venture between COMAC and Russia's United Aircraft Corp (UAC) established in May also announced the logo of the jetliner.

The letter C and R stand for China and Russia respectively, 9 is the largest single number and means long-lasting in Chinese, and 2 refers to the two parties working together in developing the aircraft.

The logo in red and blue is a combination of the dominant color of China's national flag and UAC's logo.

The joint venture is tasked to push forward the research, development, operation and sales of a wide-body aircraft in the next decade.

Research and development for the 280-seat wide-body aircraft with a range of 12,000 kilometers was launched, according to He Dongfeng, president of COMAC, at an aviation safety conference earlier this year.

Original post: chinadaily.com.cn

CR929

China's commercial long-range wide-body aircraft chief designer Chen Yingchun:

It should be said that the initial technical program to determine the basic range of 12,000 km, according to the standard three cabin, take the first class, business class, economy class, three The cabin layout is 280 seats. The maximum passenger capacity, that is, the economy class, can reach more than 400 seats, you can achieve cross-ocean flight, for example, from Beijing, we can fly directly to the west coast of the United States.

　　CR929 design is known as a dual-channel wide-body aircraft, which means that passengers boarding, you can walk through the two channels in the cabin. Its takeoff weight can be close to 300 tons. In contrast, just the first flight of the large aircraft C919 aircraft cabin only designed a walking channel, so called single-channel narrow-body aircraft. In addition, CR929 also retains the C919 emphasis on ride comfort design. Source: world.huanqiu.com

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