The world's largest amphibian performed its first flight

The world's largest Chinese amphibian AG600, designed to extinguish fires, today successfully completed the first test flight, reports RIA News CCTV message.

“The plane took off from the airport of Zhuhai city of southern Guangdong province in 09.38 local time (04.38 Moscow time). The aircraft spent minutes in the air 64, the maximum flight height was 3 thousands of meters, ”- said in a statement.

The aircraft accompanied the aircraft with a team of technical staff on board.

Aircraft manufacturers completed the assembly AG600 in July last year, the aircraft was built in the city of Zhuhai.



It is reported that the aircraft is the largest among samples of such technology, not only in China but also in the world. It is designed to extinguish fires and conduct rescue operations on the water. In addition, "AG600 can be equipped with additional equipment for monitoring the marine environment, passenger and freight traffic, as well as mineral exploration."

The publication reminds that AG600 is equipped with four turboprop engines, the aircraft is capable of collecting onboard 12 tons of water in 20 seconds. Its maximum take-off weight is 53,5 tons, the hull length is 39,3 meters, its wingspan is 38,8 meters, the maximum range is 4,5 thousand kilometers.

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[Karakut]

Glad for the Chinese ..! Well done .. Ours clearly helped them.

[arane]

Quote: Karakut

Glad for the Chinese ..! Well done .. Ours clearly helped them.

The aircraft spent 64 minutes in the air, the maximum flight altitude was 3 thousands of kilometers, ”the report said.

Definitely. This is the result! Yes on the screws! Typo, but cool!
Or just blunted?

[tol100v]

Quote: Karakut

.Our clearly helped them.

Ours did not help!

Quote: Karakut

The aircraft spent 64 minutes in the air, the maximum flight altitude was 3 thousand kilometers "

TNKT named after Beriev does not have such technologies, especially in terms of flight altitude! Our somehow completely forgot, abandoned A-40 "Albatross". Sadly, but .....

[Thrall]

Be-200 will be more beautiful, and the same 12 tons of water are gaining.

[Spec]

But the Be-200 is not the A-40?

[Piramidon]

Quote: Spez

But the Be-200 is not the A-40?

A-40 in take-off weight and carrying capacity is two times more than the Be-200.

[Spec]

Yeah thanks. already looked.

[iaroslav.mudryi]

Quote: Tol100v

TNKT named after Beriev does not have such technologies, especially in terms of flight altitude! Our somehow completely forgot, abandoned A-40 "Albatross". Sadly, but .....

Not forgotten, neglected, and it is gratifying:
Maritime aviation will receive A-2020 seaplanes by 40
By 2020, Be-12 anti-submarine amphibious aircraft will be replaced by A-40 hydroplanes. This was stated by the chief of naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet, Colonel Gennady Zagonov, RIA Novosti reported.
Earlier, in July of 2015, a senior source in the Navy leadership claimed that the military would order an anti-submarine aircraft based on the Be-200 amphibian, which, in turn, was created in the 1990 years using the backlog of A-40 aircraft.
Anti-submarine amphibious aircraft A-40 (Be-42) "Albatross" was developed at the beginning of the 1980-s in the USSR to replace the Be-12. For the first time the car took off in the 1986 year, in the 1990 it was put into service, but it never got into mass production (only two copies were produced). In 1998, the Be-200 civilian aircraft appeared (in fire and search and rescue versions), created on the basis of the A-40.
The machine with a take-off mass of about 90 tons was equipped with two D-30KVP turbojet engines (a variant of engines from the Il-76 aircraft). The aircraft developed a top speed of 760 kilometers per hour and carried up to 6,5 tons of payload. The airborne armament could include three AT-3 Orlan anti-submarine torpedoes, four APR-2 Hawk anti-submarine missiles or six Eagle-3 APR, as well as mines, depth charges and sonar buoys.
Source: https://lenta.ru/news/2016/03/03/albatros/

[svp67]

Quote: Karakut

Ours clearly helped them

And his wing doesn’t remind you of the An-12?

[Karakut]

Quote: svp67

Quote: Karakut

Ours clearly helped them

And his wing doesn’t remind you of the An-12?

And I'm talking about this and powerful engines from the same series as well .. Why reinvent the wheel.?

[svp67]

Quote: Karakut

Why reinvent the wheel.?

And the Chinese beautifully use what they have ... Well done.

[Spec]

Moreover, it has long been tested and recognized as suitable.

[Lexus]

They are all busy with business, each with his own, but together they do one thing in common. And with us - demagogy. Governors comment on the adoption of fighters, and plant directors on roads and social programs. And then they are amicably looking for the “switchman” when the terms are shifted to the right.

[Grits]

Aircraft builders will tell you that in order to increase the lifting force of the wing, it is desirable that the air flow is forced under the wing in its front part. Or vice versa, it was sucked from above from its back. That's exactly what was done on the Be-200. And the Chinese have screws stupidly standing in the middle of the wing. Therefore, the Be-200 will be more effective in terms of lift

[Cook]

Here you are wrong, the larger the area of ​​the wing blown by the screws, the section of the wing, the greater the lift. The fact is that the speed of the air flow from the propellers is higher than the speed of flight. And the lifting force of the wing, as you know, depends on the speed head. By the way, on the An-12, with a similar engine installation scheme, the wing area is blown by screws 80%. And on the Be-200, this arrangement of engines is more likely due to the need to protect their input devices from the ingress of large amounts of water during planing. The area with which the engine will suck out the air flow is painfully small.

[dauria]

Why reinvent the wheel.?

Well, the auxiliary floats are not removed, it seems. And on the “Catalina” of World War II they took shape along the sweep, becoming the endings. Why didn’t they repeat the good decision?

[svp67]

Quote: dauria

Why didn’t they repeat the good decision?

It’s more reliable - it won’t break.

[dauria]

It’s more reliable - it won’t break.

That's the plane. Everything is on the verge of "breaking" with a margin
only one and a half. But licking for the sake of range gliders, engines, and then giving it all to the resistance of some trifles is a pity.

[Piramidon]

Quote: svp67

Quote: Karakut

Ours clearly helped them

And his wing doesn’t remind you of the An-12?

This aircraft, in fact, reminds me of an An-12 hybrid with a torpedo boat. But it flies. Once, during my service in the Air Force of the SF, we and the Be-12 called "aerodynamic disgrace", but, for its time, it was a good car.

[svp67]

Quote: Piramidon

we and the Be-12 called "aerodynamic disgrace", but, for its time, it was a good car.

"Pterazavr" is a terrible machine. But really flew, and even HOW

[avt]

Quote: Karakut

..Our obviously helped them.

Brains do not have enough to work with a search engine ?? Only claudia mastered and rather scribble on the counter for rating?

[Karakut]

Quote: avt

Brains do not have enough to work with a search engine ??

On wiki ..? Or google? he he

Quote: avt

Only claudia mastered and rather scribble on the counter for rating?

Well, the rating is not interesting to me for a long time, unlike you .. hehe
Write essentially a blue shark .. (you can complain ..)))

[avt]

Quote: Karakut

Write essentially

In fact, it is necessary to start that from school, but Az was not hired to teach the sinful mitrofanushek.

Quote: Karakut

On wiki ..? Or google?

Well, if the site’s search engine could not be mastered, judging by the brackets of the type depicting laughter, and equating Wikipedia with the search engine, medicine is powerless here, not that Az is sinful.

[Karakut]

Quote: avt

Quote: Karakut

Write essentially

In fact, it is necessary to start that from school, but Az was not hired to teach the sinful mitrofanushek.

Quote: Karakut

On wiki ..? Or google?

Well, if the site’s search engine could not be mastered, judging by the brackets of the type depicting laughter, and equating Wikipedia with the search engine, medicine is powerless here, not that Az is sinful.

Well done..! They live so long ... They climbed out before the elections! Now whining will begin on the site

[avt]

Quote: Karakut

.. We climbed out before the election! Now whining will begin on the site

Oh to me these quackery Well, here - ,, I don’t want to study, but I want to get married "But really - why? I mastered the buttons and clicks, and the rest, how does the google differ from Wikipedia ..... Come on, burn on. But with short chants

[Karakut]

Quote: avt

Quote: Karakut

.. We climbed out before the election! Now whining will begin on the site

Oh to me these quackery Well, here - ,, I don’t want to study, but I want to get married "But really - why? I mastered the buttons and clicks, and the rest, how does the google differ from Wikipedia ..... Come on, burn on. But with short chants

The blue shark, you suddenly activated ..? I remember you and people like you, who lay at the bottom .. hehe

[loginovich]

Quote: Karakut

Glad for the Chinese ..! Well done .. Ours clearly helped them.

Polite people?

[Karakut]

Quote: loginovich

Quote: Karakut

Glad for the Chinese ..! Well done .. Ours clearly helped them.

Polite people?

Not yet, just experts from Russia!

[avt]

Quote: Karakut

Not yet, just experts from Russia!

Great, great Lavrov with his - ,, DB. "When did Japan become a federal part of Russia? Name it.

[Karakut]

Quote: avt

Quote: Karakut

Not yet, just experts from Russia!

Great, great Lavrov with his - ,, DB. "When did Japan become a federal part of Russia? Name it.

Rest for now .. shark!
We will deal with such then .. A lot of you pop up from 2012

[avt]

Quote: Karakut

We will deal with such then .. A lot of you pop up from 2012

Hare in the hop! Grow first, sorting out. "

[APASUS]

Coming to the end of the Be-200 era, China will now supply the whole world with unique aircraft for extinguishing fires. This was worth the wait. Next is the production of ekranoplanes

[jolly deckhand]

Well what are you, sir ... Our local experts put a fat cross on the ekranoplans

[faridg7]

Quote: APASUS

Coming to the end of the Be-200 era, China will now supply the whole world with unique aircraft for extinguishing fires. This was worth the wait. Next is the production of ekranoplanes

Well, I probably wouldn’t abruptly put a cross on the Beria machine. Of course, I am not a specialist, but I have the impression that the Chinese machine is rather weak in terms of seaworthiness, in the sense that for normal take-off and landing, you will need calm sea-low propellers above the surface.

[donavi49]

There is no Be-200 era in extinguishing fires. Sadness. But now there is an era of CL-215 / 415 + conversion Herkuls and other conventional aircraft. Why? Because they are cheap. It burns far from every year, it is very expensive and impractical to maintain aircraft for this. Especially amphibians. Especially reactive.

Therefore, Bombardier was able to sell 200 + of her kids (4 and 6 tons of water). But Be-200 still flies for the gingerbread cookies for especially large fires, but there are no particular contracts.

[faiver]

but there are no particular contracts

- so those that are at the time are not fulfilled ...

[APASUS]

Quote: donavi49

keeping planes for it is very expensive and impractical. Especially amphibians. Especially reactive.

In a country where 1200000 km of rivers and roads are not everywhere with asphalt, where there is a normal route to Vladik, an airplane that can be perfectly converted can be used for rescue operations, ambulances, and just sits on a strip.
I recall Shoigu proposed creating a Euro squadron to help the EU in extinguishing fires, and then it turned out that the Ministry of Emergencies has only 2 BE-200s and this is from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad.
The problem of the Be-200 is not in the absence of orders, but in its production.

[avt]

Quote: APASUS

China will supply the whole world with unique fire fighting aircraft.

What is the uniqueness of the design developed already since 1952 and taken up in the air in 1968 ????

[Net]

Produce. They built a large ekranoplan for the Navy. Apparently, the Yankees are going to drive.

[Alexander 3]

Well done Chinese quickly create, quickly copy, quickly build. We should learn from them.

[kapitan92]

Quote: Alexander 3

Well done Chinese quickly create, quickly copy, quickly build. We should learn from them.

The AG600 has four WJ6 turboprop engines with a take-off power of 5100 hp each. (copy of the Soviet AI-20 engine, manufactured by China National South Aviation Industry Company (CNSAIC) in Zhuzhou, Hunan) with six-bladed propellers.

For the construction of pilot and production aircraft, the AG600 CAIGA and AVIC carried out a complete reconstruction of the ZYAC plant in Zhuhai. Nevertheless, this plant is still essentially an assembly platform for amphibians. For prototype 001, the center section, middle and front of the fuselage and wing were manufactured by AVIC Xi'an Aircraft Industry (Group) Company in Xi'an, the tail of the fuselage and tail were manufactured by AVIC Hanzhong Aviation Industry Group Company in Hanzhong, and the nacelles were made by the Chinese company Flying North This cooperation will continue in the future. In total, about 600 institutes and research centers and 150 enterprises of the PRC industry are involved in the development and production of AG70.

http://www.arms-expo.ru/news/inostrannye_razrabot
ki / kitayskiy_samolet_amfibiya_ag600_v_chzhukhae /

[svp67]

The publication reminds that AG600 is equipped with four turboprop engines, the aircraft is capable of collecting onboard 12 tons of water in 20 seconds. Its maximum take-off weight is 53,5 tons, the hull length is 39,3 meters, its wingspan is 38,8 meters, the maximum range is 4,5 thousand kilometers.

And is this the BIGGEST seaplane?
Yes it's a "baby" compared to Hughes H-4 Hercules
Crew: 3 person
Length: 66,45 m
Wingspan: 97,54 m
Height: 24,08 m
Fuselage height: 9,1 m
Wing area: 1061,88 m²
Maximum take-off weight: 180 tons
Payload weight: up to 59 kg
Fuel capacity: 52 996 L
Engines: 8 × air cooled Pratt & Whitney R-4360-4A, 3000 hp each from. (2240 ​​kW) each
Propellers: 8 × four-blade Hamilton Standard, diameter 5,23

[aszzz888]

... and this Hughes H-4 Hercules does he take water aboard by "self-capture"? ... after all, our Be takes from the surface of reservoirs, this is the trick ...

[PN]

The largest of the present, but not in history ...

[donavi49]

It's about what flies now. Howard's boat does not fly.

[Dalailama]

She did not fly. The last photo shows the maximum achievable height. Mozhaisky plane flew higher.

[NordUral]

What year pictures?

[Dalailama]

This is not a plane, he could not leave the screen.

[svp67]

Quote: DalaiLama

This is not a plane, he could not leave the screen.

Okay, but these ..
Dornier do x

Blohm & Voss BV 238

Kawanishi H8K

Martin mars

Be-10

[Dalailama]

Are they exclusive to national pride?
Does anyone in a heated hangar cost 70 years?

[svp67]

Quote: DalaiLama

Does anyone in a heated hangar cost 70 years?

A couple of Martin Mars before the beginning of 2000 flew quite a while and extinguished fires, even later ...
Here are the videos of 2014 and 2015


You understand that "mausoleums" are not built for everyone

[Dalailama]

You again are not talking about H-4.
Why did you have to put it there? It would be better to restore the Hindenburg.

[Dalailama]

He would not be a good clean ekranoplan.

[Rurikovich]

EMNIP, the largest flying boat was the Howard Hughes giant H-4 Hercules
Just at the moment, the Chinese is the largest, which is a dwarf in comparison with the above ...

[Dalailama]

Gliders also sometimes fly better than the H-4, but they don’t welcome it and then there is little left to put in the museum.

[Ryabtsev Grigory Evgenievich]

Chinese Air Force News: Amphibious Aircraft in Space!

"“ The plane took off from the Zhuhai city airport in southern Guangdong at 09.38 local time (04.38 Moscow time). The aircraft spent 64 minutes in the air, the maximum flight altitude was 3 thousand kilometers, ”the report said.

Victims of the exam, damn him!

[svp67]

Quote: Ryabtsev Grigory Evgenievich

Victims of the exam, damn him

"Coekakers" were always, even at the time of the "great and mighty ..."

[Dalailama]

Koeckaker most in the USA. Even in the face of Hughes. There were no Stalin purges.

[svp67]

Quote: DalaiLama

There were no Stalin purges.

But there was its own - the "great depression"

[Dalailama]

This is a phenomenon of the opposite nature.

[zivXP]

In the news on TV they said about the flight range, that's for sure, but I don’t remember the number.

[AlexVas44]

Quote: faridg7

... I have the impression that the Chinese machine is weak in terms of seaworthiness, in the sense that for normal take-off and landing, you will need calm sea-low propellers above the surface.

But China can collect them in such quantities and at a price that the BE-200 probably never dreamed of. And there have been so many fires lately that the Chinese amphibians are like a green light.

[Mountain shooter]

Do not exaggerate their capabilities. Already, it was not very cheap in China. Salaries are growing fast. In Russia, much has become cheaper to do

[Simargl]

We still have an advantage in technology.
As soon as the Chinese pull up a science school - that's it!

[Dalailama]

Will they really learn how to sew clothes properly?

[Golovan Jack]

Quote: DalaiLama

Will they really learn how to sew clothes properly?

They always knew how and can do it now.
It’s just that "Chinese" that you are probably used to seeing is ... not even a "second freshness."
But the engines for the fighters, they never really learned how to do it. And soon will learn

[Dalailama]

If you don’t climb out of the Forbidden City, where everything is covered in silk, then I willingly believe it.

[Golovan Jack]

Quote: DalaiLama

If from the Forbidden City where everything in silks do not climb out

I don’t get out ... because I’ve never climbed there
A couple of, ahem, arguments:
My father had a cloak, Chinese, when I was still petty. the coat was worn for a very long time and was an order of magnitude higher quality than similar products made in the USSR.
I know an office that sells, including sportswear (for snowboarding, for example). So, their main producer is China. Moreover, the quality ... very, say, decent.
But the prices are completely horse
Something like that.

[Dalailama]

Doesn't the office have an office in Hong Kong?

[Golovan Jack]

Quote: DalaiLama

Doesn't the office have an office in Hong Kong?

In Moscow, as I understand it.

[Dalailama]

At the Chinese supplier.

[KaPToC]

Quote: Simargl

As soon as the Chinese pull up a science school - that's it!

So they don’t pull it up.

[Simargl]

Come on!
Yes, there is no fundamental there so far, but the application blooms and smells!
As soon as they begin to develop the fundamental, they will not catch up, lagging behind the generation, but go about keeping up.

[Mountain shooter]

Well, whatever you say, something “clumsy” is on this plane. Well, take-off weight is big, but it takes as much water as Berievsky. And the look ...

[zivXP]

Have the Chinese era of gigantomania begun?

[Dalailama]

They began with them many thousands of years ago. Not all are over yet. But if you start to bake boats like pies.

[Azazelo]

Altitude 3000 km .... famously. And the whole world does not know how to make a shuttle rated, and the Chinese can display satellites on amphibians.

[Dalailama]

This is a secret Chinese project to develop hydrocarbon deposits on Titan while American pepper shakers travel around Mars in search of Helium-3.

[Azazelo]

Well done and done ... what srach to breed? Let's see how it shows itself.

[NordUral]

An example of how the Communist Party controls capitalism. An example of the symbiosis of a planned and market economy. It is time for Russia to come to its senses. And I’m ashamed of the country, reading about the successes of our neighbors to the joyful cries of Urya-Patriots about our achievements in the future.

And for the moderators of VO - edit the articles at least as little as possible so that there are no blunders like 3000 km in the articles?

[Vadim237]

Yes, it’s really time to do in China - to abolish pensions in general and make the country a capital industrial printer, let them plow until their death.

[Mimoprohodil]

There are pensions in China. For those who work in industry

[pafegosoff]

China now has exactly the same pension system as it does in Russia. This is 60-30 years ago in China, employees of state institutions, state enterprises and military personnel received pensions. But we, racing with Ukraine, are running towards China half a century ago ...

[Vadim237]

And 300 million beggars - a third of the population, a truly developed country.

[pafegosoff]

We have 50%, so what? Shovels in hand and to the site! Help parents, grandparents, although I also have to help my grandchildren and a 97-year-old parent.
And then! We have unofficial unemployment five times more than official. And pensions - 14,5 - the average maximum, 8,5 - the minimum. A budget weather observer gets 11-12 thousand, without which sudden hurricanes are a common thing (hundreds of weather stations are cut around Moscow, and then the vovchik clown blames the weather bureau for everything. Schwonder found himself. He needs to knock on the back of his head, as Prof. Preobrazhensky said.

[Vadim237]

We have beggars only 14%.

[Vadim237]

Not official unemployment - yes, these are those who do not work officially and do not pay any taxes, but to raise pensions for all 40 million pensioners at least up to 30000 a month, you must have an additional budget of 14,5 trillion rubles for this - this raises the question of where and at the expense of what to take such money because - some taxes are not paid, others work in the gray and lower their incomes, still others steal - this is total across Russia. Of course, in such a situation, those who hapanul or created and developed their business will live with dignity.

[Vadim237]

For you - in China now only 2% of the population receive pensions.

[Mentat]

Quote: APASUS

Coming to the end of the Be-200 era, China will now supply the whole world with unique aircraft for extinguishing fires. This was worth the wait. Next is the production of ekranoplanes

Himself not sick of the tasteless, absurd and ignorant slogan in an attempt to capitalize on the pros with an extended clave?

[Nikolay R-PM]

In my humble opinion, the generic features of the Y-8 are visible in the car: recognizable forkil, straight wing. Here are just a fuselage as if half-enlarged and instead of the power floor made redan. In general, it is often heard that the Y-8 is a licensed copy of the an-12, but in my opinion this is not so. For example, the Chinese on extreme modifications have a full cargo ramp, while our an-12 (at least those that flew into our unit) two narrow ramps that are installed manually. Although, probably, it is not quite correct to compare the older An-12s and the Y-8 family - nevertheless, the Chinese path of development of this aircraft passed at a later time and could take into account the trends and experience in operating the base model. In general, in the hands of the Chinese, the An-12 turned into a completely different machine.
I do not share concerns about the "avalanche of Chinese amphibians." The most widespread Chinese aircraft received in countries with a limited military budget, under political pressure (sanctions, UN embargo, etc.) or not directly affiliated with large military blocs. If they are allowed to enter the civilian market in Europe, then only to certain countries with the permission of local EASA branches. The American market is generally closed to them. Only the military and civilian markets of South America and Africa remain. Separate deliveries to the Russian Federation are not ruled out (our aviation authorities have a particular weakness for foreign technology).
However, it is unlikely that these will be mass postaki — something specific.

[avt]

Quote: Nikolay R-PM

In my humble opinion, the generic features of the Y-8 are visible in the car: recognizable forkil, straight wing. Here are just a fuselage as if half-enlarged and instead of the power floor made redan.

Not . Well, it’s really direct some kind of viral brain disease transmitted by the Internet droplet path! There is a real epidemic on the branch with a mania of attempts to academically analyze Well, for those especially gifted, although I have repeatedly asserted myself in the adherence to folk wisdom - “To teach fools to only spoil”, not to fumble the vulnerable brain of know-it-alls who do not seem to want to find anything from the principle of a search engine. artistic whistle in a minor with a flat! Then bring the rest to the masses about

Quote: Nikolay R-PM

nevertheless, the Chinese path of development of this aircraft took place at a later time and could take into account the trends and experience in operating the base model. In general, in the hands of the Chinese, the An-12 turned into a completely different machine.

[Nikolay R-PM]

Thanks for the criticism)

[avt]

[quote = Nikolay R-PM] Thank you for your criticism) [/ quote]
Yes, not really deigned to work as a search engine? Progress, however, is not an example [quote = Karakut]: Yes, in fact today, NOBODY even moved on a Japanese theme.

[tinibar]

Quote: Thrall

Be-200 will be more beautiful, and the same 12 tons of water are gaining.

By the way, the A-40 Albatross will be bigger than the Chinese ... Forgot? Something fast ....

[pafegosoff]

Engines, probably modernized old men AI-20.
When diving, the distance of the blades to the water is something 1-1,5 meters. and ka when excited such a giant? The same Be-12 has a “seagull” wing and AI-20 engines on top of the wing and two engines. Let's see how this giant will be tested on water. And how will it surpass the A-40 (Be-42) in practice with a maximum take-off weight of 90 tons?
The biggest one, say? Well, yes, if the length of the aircraft is the main, and not the maximum take-off weight, then the designer is a great specialist in kites.

[Vadim237]

I propose to return to the creation of a super-heavy seaplane ekranoplan Be 2500 the price of the issue is 500 billion rubles, for ten years, the very real task of creating it. The lion's share of the cost - R&D will take the creation of engines with a thrust of 120000 kg of forces.

[Dalailama]

Where did such a big price come from? But you can not take smaller engines in larger numbers?
All R&D on it were ready 100500 years ago.

[Vadim237]

“All R&D was ready for it” - Yes, conceptual design was ready, but there was essentially no design, and such a price appeared when calculating R&D, creating new production facilities, as well as an engine for the creation and production of which it will take 280 billion rubles - NK 114 engine.

[Dalailama]

Such a price and such arguments were taken to prevent the project from taking place.
Why can not you use the old areas?
The one who designed it simply did not have sketches.

Quote: DalaiLama

But you can not take smaller engines in larger numbers?

[Vadim237]

Why can not you use the old areas? - Because the dimensions of this aircraft are 115 meters long and the wingspan is 125 meters, and from full load it will weigh 2500 tons. Fewer engines complicate maintenance.

[Dalailama]

This is for final assembly.
Does not lead. In this case, it leads to greater reliability, and the ability to get the result (quickly). But do you really need it?

[Vadim237]

I apologize - a larger number of engines leads to more complicated design and maintenance.

[Dalailama]

On flying boats, on the contrary, it simplifies and lowers the requirements for its quality. On Do-X for example.

[pafegosoff]

120 thousand? This is only with new approaches, such as pulsating ...

[Vadim237]

No, it’s like this double-loop screw - a fan GE9x with a thrust of 47000 kg of forces only enlarged 2,5 times

[Vadim237]

For the new Boeing 777