Shanghai Y-10

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Y-10
Role Narrow-body jet airliner
Manufacturer
Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory
Designer Shanghai Aircraft Research Institute[1]
First flight 26 September 1980[1]
Number built 3
Model
Commemorative plaque

The Shanghai Y-10 or Yun-10 (

Federal Aviation Regulation (Part 25, 1970 edition).[2]

Due to unavailability of the intended

co-pilot, flight engineer, navigator, and radio operator.[1]

History

Development work, given code name 708, began in Shanghai in August, 1970 for

Eleventh Five-Year Plan, periodic strategic socio-economical development plans drawn up by the Chinese government.[1]

Three aircraft were built by the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory (now known as

Urumqi, Zhengzhou, Hefei, Guangzhou, Kunming, Lhasa and Chengdu before its retirement in 1984.[1]

The Y-10 is an indigenous Chinese design.

Hetian, Xinjiang to study it.[5] While the planes were reverse-engineered copies of the Boeing 707—one report claimed that after Chinese engineers disassembled a 707 to study it, neither the reassembled original nor the copy would fly[6]—both the Y-10's designers and Boeing denied this. While the Y-10 resembles the 707, its dimensions are closer to the Boeing 720 than the 707, and the internal design is very different.[4]

By the time the prototype was first flown, debate about its viability surfaced, based on a design that was already 30 years old. CAAC, which already owned a modest Western fleet, would not purchase the plane. China was beginning to embrace trade with the West, and some saw the isolationist design as an inefficient throwback to Maoism. China in the early reform era was ruled by rehabilitated cadres previously persecuted in the Cultural Revolution by Wang Hongwen, the project initiator, resulting in the cancellation of the project in 1983, officially due to cost and market concerns. During its maiden flights, no governmental officials attended the ceremonies for fear of the connection to Wang Hongwen and the Gang of Four. By 1985, Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory had been granted production licensing for the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and shifted all efforts towards that program.

A model of an AWACS variant has been seen, resembling the Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft.[1]

  • Panels
  • Cockpit
    Cockpit
  • Overhead
    Overhead
  • Flight engineer's station
    Flight engineer's station
  • Navigator's station
    Navigator's station

Specifications (Y-10)

Data from Chinese Aircraft:China's aviation industry since 1951[1]

General characteristics

  • Crew: 5 (pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer, navigator, radio operator)
  • Passenger capacity:
    • High density: 178
    • All economy: 149
    • Mixed class: 124
  • Max payload: 16,700 kg (36,817 lb)
  • Length: 42.93 m (140 ft 10 in)
  • Wingspan: 42.24 m (138 ft 7 in)
  • Height: 13.42 m (44 ft 0 in)
  • Wing area: 244.5 m2 (2,632 sq ft)
  • Empty weight: 58,120 kg (128,133 lb)
  • Max takeoff weight: 102,000 kg (224,872 lb) (Some sources quote 110,227 kg (243,009 lb))
  • Fuel capacity: 51,000 kg (112,436 lb)
  • Powerplant: 4 ×
    Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B turbofan
    engines, 84.7 kN (19,000 lbf) thrust each

Performance

See also

  • COMAC C919
  • COMAC ARJ21

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era

Related lists

  • List of jet airliners

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-1-902109-04-6
    .
  2. ISBN 978 7 313 09555 8
  3. ^ "航空工业六十年：从运十到COMAC919". 民航资源网. September 27, 2009. Retrieved August 10, 2017. 路透社评论："在得到这种高度复杂的技术时，再也不能视中国为一个落后国家了。"
  4. ^ a b "Y-10". globalsecurity.org. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  5. ^ 运-10研制经纬谈.
  6. JSTOR 30173489
    .

Further reading

Taylor, W. R. (Ed.). Jane's All the World's Aircraft, 1980–81. (London: Jane's Publishing Company), pp. 40 ff.

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