Know 26 Facts about china’s Xian Y-20 military transport aircraft

Know 26 Facts about china’s Xian Y-20 military transport aircraft

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Name -  Xian Y-20 - is a large military transport aircraft

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Role - Strategic airlifter

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National origin - People Republic of China

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Manufacturer - Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation

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Primary User - PLA Air Force

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The official codename of the aircraft is Kunpeng

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Project was launched in year 2006

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The Y-20 prototype is powered by four Russian D30 series turbofan engines and the production aircraft will sport the WS-20 engines

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Cargo is loaded through a large aft ramp that accommodates rolling stock.

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The Y-20 is similar to the Boeing C-17 transport aircraft in general layout

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The aircraft made its maiden flight lasting one hour on January 26, 2013.

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General characteristics

a)    Crew: 3
b)    Payload: 66 tonnes [10] (145,505 lb)
c)    Length: 47 m (154.2 ft)
d)    Wingspan: 45 m (147.6 ft)
e)    Height: 15 m (49.2 ft)
f)    Wing area: 310 m² (3337 ft²)
g)    Empty weight: 100,000 kg (220,400 lb)
h)    Max. takeoff weight: 220,000 kg (485,000 lb)
i)    Powerplant: 4 × Soloviev D-30KP-2 or WS-18, in the future WS-20 turbofans

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Performance

a)    Cruise speed: Mach 0.7 (830 km/h)
b)    Range: 4,400 km with max payload (2,376 nmi, 2734 mi)
c)    Service ceiling: 13,000 m (42,700 ft)
d)    Max. wing loading: 710 kg/m² (145 lb/ft²)

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Y-20 is 47 meters long, 15 meters high and has a wingspan of 45 meters. Its maximum load capacity is 66 tons and maximum takeoff weight of 220 tons.

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Y 20 is domestically developed by china this is great achievement very few countries got this ability to make their own big military aircrafts.

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Y-20 can carry out long-range transportation missions even under complicated weather conditions.

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China began test flights on January 26 for the prototype of its first indigenously-developed heavy transport aircraft

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Y-20, a craft similar in size to the Russian IL-76 and somewhat smaller
than the US C-17.

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Test flight time: around 2:00 pm, January 26, 2013, from an airport in Yanliang, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province

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Y-20 is developed by Xi'an Aircraft Industry, a subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the country's leading military aircraft maker.

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Chinese media reported that Escorted by a J-15 fighter and numbered “20001,” China’s domestically produced Y-20 transport aircraft successfully completed  its maiden flight on Jan. 26 at the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)’s China Flight Test Establishment in Sha’anxi province, remaining airborne for an hour
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The Y-20’s first flight suggests that China is on the way to joining the U.S., Russia and Ukraine as the fourth nation to independently develop and fly a heavy military transport aircraft

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Its capacious cargo hold can “carry the vast majority of combat and support vehicles of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA),” including the PLA’s heaviest tank, the 58-ton Type-99A2
It can transport them even to underdeveloped “airstrips”

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As per media reports
Y-20 will have to undergo a minimum-three-year-long flight test and a minimum-five-year-long comprehensive test period,” the PLA experts cited on the People’s Daily website state. “Therefore, 2017 is the earliest date by which the PLA Air Force will have home-made large transport aircraft

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Watch Video

China Y-20 Long Range Strategic Heavy-Lift Aircraft First Flight



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China Y 20 Military Aircraft Photo

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