COMAC: CRAIC CR929 gets 7 engine proposals
Sino-Russian commercial aircraft consortium CRAIC has received 7 proposals for engines for its CR929 widebody airliner, said COMAC, one of the partners. The responses follow a request for proposals issued in Dec 2017. COMAC has not named the proposers, but only General Electric and Rolls-Royce have been expected to be realistic bidders to provide an initial engine for the aircraft, which is due to go into service no later than 2027. Pratt & Whitney is not known to be working on an engine of the necessary thrust, which will be 78,000 lb., according to the other partner, United Aircraft Corp. Aero Engine Corp. of China and Russia’s United Engine Corp., both state organisations, were presumably two of the other proposers, but only to formally declare their hopes of eventually powering the CR929. <br/>
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COMAC: CRAIC CR929 gets 7 engine proposals
Sino-Russian commercial aircraft consortium CRAIC has received 7 proposals for engines for its CR929 widebody airliner, said COMAC, one of the partners. The responses follow a request for proposals issued in Dec 2017. COMAC has not named the proposers, but only General Electric and Rolls-Royce have been expected to be realistic bidders to provide an initial engine for the aircraft, which is due to go into service no later than 2027. Pratt & Whitney is not known to be working on an engine of the necessary thrust, which will be 78,000 lb., according to the other partner, United Aircraft Corp. Aero Engine Corp. of China and Russia’s United Engine Corp., both state organisations, were presumably two of the other proposers, but only to formally declare their hopes of eventually powering the CR929. <br/>
