Boeing in the United States has frequent accidents, so can we take advantage of Boeing's illness to kill it?
After all, the core engines of the C919 domestic large aircraft are imported from abroad, so how can there be a breakthrough?
However, judging from the current level of domestic aircraft manufacturing, there will definitely be a big breakthrough in scale within three to five years.
Boeing has frequent accidents
For Boeing, the new year can be described as "the house leak coincided with overnight rain, and the ship was late and encountered a head wind".
Its own "death flight" Boeing 737 MAX finally survived until the ban was lifted, but there was bad news of a "hole in the air".
On January 5, 2024, a Boeing 737 MAX passenger plane of Alaska Airlines suddenly occurred in the fuselage on its way to Ontario, California.
From the social **revealed**, it can be seen that a piece of the fuselage of the plane is missing, and the originally sealed hatch suddenly "says goodbye", a big hole is broken in the cabin, and the passengers are so frightened that they dare not move.
Following the accident, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 9 operated by American Airlines or within the United States, followed by regulators and airlines around the world.
And that's not all, less than a week later, Boeing has another accident.
On January 13, local time, an ANA flight from New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido, Japan to Toyama Airport was torn during the flight, and the flight then returned to New Chitose Airport.
It is reported that the aircraft is a Boeing 737, but fortunately, neither the crew nor the passengers were injured.
As the saying goes, this person is unlucky to "stuff his teeth when he drinks cold water", and Boeing is even more troubled.
Just one day later, two Boeing planes collided at the Chicago airport in the United States.
On January 14, a Boeing 777 aircraft owned by All Nippon Airways of Japan collided with a Boeing 717 aircraft owned by Delta Air Lines in the United States while taking off and taxiing at Chicago O'Hare International Airport in the United States.
Well, it's really not a family, and it doesn't enter a family.
According to the report, there were no reports of people in the accident, and the Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the accident, and it is unclear whether the accident is related to a manufacturing defect in the Boeing aircraft.
Then, on the 17th, when U.S. Secretary of State Blinken returned to the United States from the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the Boeing 737 passenger plane he was flying on had an oxygen leak failure before takeoff and had to be replaced.
On the 18th, a Boeing cargo plane of Atlas Air in the United States suffered an engine failure after taking off from Miami International Airport and was forced to return to the aircraft urgently.
In the past, the door of the American Emirates Airlines plane was disconnected, and now there are plane failures one after another, and it seems that Boeing has a lot of problems.
It is estimated that if this is the case, the executives who go to the factory to make screws will not be able to withstand it!
Although this year has just begun, Boeing is destined to have a hard time at this pace.
In terms of financial reports, as of the third quarter of 2023, Boeing has total liabilities of $151 billion and total assets of $134.3 billion, making it insolvent.
To this end, in order to maximize the company's efficiency, Boeing has outsourced the production of a large number of parts and components, and only undertakes the final assembly work.
Some analysts even concluded that Boeing, as a leading brand that was once "made in America", now has frequent failures, all revealing that the American manufacturing industry has declined.
Advantages of domestic C919 aircraft
Boeing is sick now, so can we try to kill it?
Just like electric vehicles cut into the intelligent track, and eventually make foreign oil vehicles more and more marketable.
Some people will be worried about whether this is a bit exaggerated, you know, although the domestic production rate of the current domestic C919 large aircraft has reached 60%, but some core components are imported from abroad.
For example, engine, avionics, fuel, hydraulics, flight controller, landing gear, APU, etc. In particular, the engine uses the LEAP-X1C engine developed by the joint venture between General Electric of the United States and Safran of France.
But this problem, in fact, the leaders have long noticed, after all, if this "heart disease" is not solved, it will be stuck in the neck of foreign countries sooner or later.
At present, the self-developed domestic CJ-1000A engine also ushered in good news, and it is reported that it can be assembled to the C919 aircraft as soon as 2024.
Then in 2025, the C919 will complete the airworthiness certification, and then it can fully enter commercial operation.
According to the information released so far, the thrust of the CJ-1000A turbofan engine is 13 tons, which is the same as the performance of the LEAP engine currently used in the C919, especially in terms of fuel consumption and reliability.
What's more, the domestic C919 is cost-effective, and it is reported that the unit price of a C919 is equivalent to 6 yuan5.3 billion yuan, while the Airbus A320 is 7300 million yuan, Boeing B737MAX is 80.3 billion yuan.
According to COMAC data, as of January 2023, China's self-developed commercial large aircraft C919 has successfully received a total of 1,200 orders from Germany, Thailand, Nigeria and other countries, and many airlines are striving for orders.
There are many orders, indicating that more and more countries are very recognized for C919.
For the C919, the biggest issue now is capacity.
According to the information previously released by COMAC, an annual output of 50 aircraft will be achieved in 2025.
In other words, even at this rate, it will take 20 years of production to meet the demand for more than 1,000 orders.
Compared with before, for example, Airbus Boeing, their current monthly production capacity reaches 40-50 aircraft, and it can reach about 400 aircraft in a year.
So, everyone, this is the gap.
Despite this, what we are best at is to scale the production capacity of an industry, and at present, the industrial chain and industrial matching are not a big problem for us.
It is important to know that China is currently the only country in the world that has all the industrial categories in the United Nations Industrial Classification, including 41 industrial categories, 207 industrial medium categories, and 666 industrial sub-categories.
It is a high probability that Boeing will cripple itself through this wave of operations, and it will be very difficult to turn over in the future, and the reason is here.
Therefore, when the opponent makes a major mistake, then it is an opportunity for us, a chance to surpass the opponent, and the rise of China's electric vehicles is such a routine.
According to the current pace, if China wants to make a breakthrough in scale in the aviation manufacturing industry, it may be achieved in three to five years.
Once this breakthrough is made, the industrial chain will be upgraded again and will go to a higher level.
Ending
The United States is strong, but it will not always be strong, and now the decline of Boeing is an indisputable fact.
Therefore, it is not to take advantage of his illness to kill him, but to let them abandon their martial arts, as long as we are not in a hurry on the eve of the breakthrough and develop at our own pace.
Then "dare to teach the sun and the moon to change the sky" is also a matter of high probability.