The news of domestic C919 came, and Japan's cessation of large aircraft research and development attracted attention.
I can't stand the news of the domestic C919, Japan announced the termination of the project!
The domestic C919 large passenger aircraft has gone from tepid to global attention, which has lasted more than ten years. You know, when China began to announce that it was going to build its own big planes, many foreign countries sneered and bluntly said that we were doomed, but the reality slapped them in the face.
In fact, when the project was just launched, due to the lack of talents and technical reserves in China, coupled with the intention of European and American countries to block related technologies, we faced great challenges in the early stage, and the project also appeared"Bankruptcy"but luckily we succeeded in the end. Not long ago, the news about the national C919 came out, according to Zhang Yujin, deputy chief engineer of COMAC, the national C919 large aircraft has received more than 1,200 orders, and it is expected to reach an annual production capacity of 150 aircraft in the next five years!
This is undoubtedly a remarkable achievement, marking that China has completely broken the monopoly of Boeing of the United States and Airbus of France in the field of large commercial aircraft, and has achieved independence!Nevertheless, unlike the great success of China's domestic airliner C919, our neighbor Japan has gone bankrupt in the development of large passenger aircraft.
Not long ago, Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced the suspension of the research and development project of the space jet domestic passenger aircraft. It is understood that as early as 1957, Japan officially established the project, announced the development of civil airliners, this project is called YS-11, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the project, Japan also gathered a large number of elite talents in the aviation industry at that time, and in the following years, successfully developed the first civil airliner YS-11.
However, the fate of this aircraft was very bumpy: shortly after it rolled off the assembly line, it was criticized by many people for its high fuel consumption and high noise, and then there were safety problems. With 26 accidents in ten years, the aircraft became the king of accidents, so the aircraft was discontinued in 1972, with only 180 units in total.
Later, in 2004, Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation was unwilling to fail and continued to create new aircraft designs, so the MRJ regional aircraft project was born, after 11 years of research and development, Japan's MRJ regional aircraft successfully made its first flight, but the fate of this aircraft in the United States was also bumpy, and the test flight was stopped by the United States Airworthiness certification until it failed.
But Mitsubishi was still unwilling, and later created the SpaceJet project on the basis of MRJ, but after more than ten years of research and development, the project was announced to be frozen in 2019, until some time ago, Mitsubishi finally couldn't hold it anymore and announced the termination of the project. Japan's three famous aircraft, but three times can not be completed, this is indeed very embarrassing, some foreign media pointed out: this third failure may also indicate that Japan has completely abandoned the field of civil airliners.
Japan is known as Asia"Little America"It is said that its scientific and technological strength is indeed very strong, but even so, Japan's plan to build a national aircraft has frequently failed, which in the author's opinion reflects the difficulty of the national C919.
You know, during the Second World War, Japan was able to manufacture aircraft independently, and it was the country with the largest aircraft production capacity in the world at that time.
In my opinion, although Japan's aircraft industry has been suppressed for a while, the camel is at least bigger than the horse, but despite this, Japan finally surrendered in the field of civil airliners, which is really embarrassing. On the contrary, we have not had enough technical background, but we have finally succeeded, which can also better demonstrate our country's strong strength in the field of science and technology.