China unveils world's largest amphibious aircraft

[rtwjunkie]

It Still flew and above spec's show its bigger

Howard Hughs was instructed to only perform taxi trials and "Smirk" thats all he was supposed to perform
A little to much throttle and it cruised for about a mile in the air ( yes that was ground effect in Action ) he never was given the chance of FULL FLIGHT TRIALS
but yes it Did Fly

You read my mind. Chinese propaganda at work. This may be the largest amphibious aircraft now, but not EVER. Spruce Goose was larger. And, looking at this thing, I'm going to search because I can vaguely think of one or two others that were bigger as well.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

This aircraft is AMPHIBIOUS.

The Spruce Goose was not an amphibious aircraft.




EDIT.......Search


Seaplane
Flying Boat
Amphibious Aircraft

They are all different aircraft types

 

[Caring1]

This aircraft is AMPHIBIOUS.

The Spruce Goose was not an amphibious aircraft.

Correct, the Spruce Goose was a sea plane, it could not travel on or land on a runway.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

it could not travel on or land on a runway.

and could barely travel in air..........it was however quite an effective winged boat.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Reading comprehension, he clearly said "not everything made in china is junk".
"not everything is junk" does not mean "Not everything is junk therefor everything is great and perfect and flawless"

Speaking of reading comprehension, I was talking about being narrow minded in respect to being opening minded about China's products. To put it in English you can understand, you have to take the good with the bad, but to say everything is only good is wrong too. In essence, I was agreeing with him. SSTUYAASI

Not everything is junk means that they do also make really good products and that is simply true, "made in china" nowadays has some negative connotation because of dumbasses, when 99% of what you use is made in China.
Also China's copying is getting better and better and better, I would highly recommend you watch Top Gear's China episode where they specifically focus on the car industry in China and how it evolved over time, credit where credit is due.

The "made in china" negative connotation has history behind it, that reputation was well earned in the past, that doesnt mean it didnt change. It did, China has improved its reputation with better quality products. But you cant convince everyone to drop the negativity, some people look at that "made in China" label as a loss of jobs in the USA so will never give up those hard feelings and attitudes. Yea its shame but what can you do. eh?

Its like going to bat in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs, if you hit a home run, you're a Hero, if not, you're a dud. If this plane can save a bunch of trees, its a win-win.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Speaking of reading comprehension, I was talking about being narrow minded in respect to being opening minded about China's products. To put it in English you can understand, you have to take the good with the bad, but to say everything is only good is wrong too. In essence, I was agreeing with him. SSTUYAASI


The "made in china" negative connotation has history behind it, that reputation was well earned in the past, that doesnt mean it didnt change. It did, China has improved its reputation with better quality products. But you cant convince everyone to drop the negativity, some people look at that "made in China" label as a loss of jobs in the USA so will never give up those hard feelings and attitudes. Yea its shame but what can you do. eh?

Its like going to bat in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs, if you hit a home run, you're a Hero, if not, you're a dud. If this plane can save a bunch of trees, its a win-win.

I know what you were trying to say, but you worded it as a counter when there was nothing to counter.
Ill have to repeat myself, all he said was "not everything in China is junk" that automatically means that there is variation in the quality of products (not everything is junk, not everything is great, not everything is average) so your comment of how not everything is good either is completely redundant and shows a lack of understanding of the statement OP made.
You attached a value to "not everything is junk" that isn't there, the "but to say everything is only good is wrong too." is something you read into his statement, which was not there and that is why you need to work on reading comprehension.

On the second part, which is why I said 99% of what you use is made in China, its incredibly short sighted to give China's product any kind of reputation as some general consensuses.
China is gigantic and makes 99% of what you use, all that stuff nobody ever pays mind to because it just works? yeah, made in China, but when one of your many many Chinese products finally fails its something you notice because the made in China keeps coming up because, again, EVERYTHING YOU OWN is made in the China.
If your American drill bit breaks you wont over time lose faith in American products because less then 1% of your products are from America so its no repeating pattern.
Its all about scale and people not realizing that because...well...they are stupid.

 

[Jetster]

Largest? I don't think so. Okay it wasn't amphibious 320Ft wing span though

http://www.evergreenmuseum.org/the-spruce-goose

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh...........

LARGEST AMPHIBIOUS



NOT largest ever, or even the ONLY amphibious.

As the title says "Worlds largest amphibious aircraft "





for comparison here are some small aircraft, none of which are amphibious

http://jalopnik.com/the-ten-smallest-human-operated-aircraft-ever-to-fly-1736381580

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Seaplane
Flying Boat
Amphibious Aircraft

Actually...

• Seaplane - fixed wing aircraft that can land on water.
  • Floatplane - Weight is predominantly suspended above floats.
  • Flying Boat - The fuselage is mostly in the water.
• Amphibious - Meets the requirements for seaplanes and is also capable of terrestrial landing. There are amphibious float planes (wheels deploy out of the floats) and amphibious flying boats (like this Chinese aircraft).

 

[Jetster]

So just belly landing doesn't count?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

In summary.



This Chinese plane is f*****g amphibious and Spruce Goose is a f*****g flying boat.

 

[Jetster]

calm down I get it. It was a mistake

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

calm down I get it. It was a mistake

LMFAO.....ta

 

[FordGT90Concept]

So just belly landing doesn't count?

That would be a crash landing. Situations where aircraft fail to deploy landing gear for terrestrial landing are treated as crash landings too. They put a bed of foam out to reduce the resistance but it's never a good situation especially if there isn't room beyond the runway for it to safely come to a stop.

And Sully Sullenberger is a hero. Water landings with non-seaplanes is a really, really, really bad situation.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

VTOL, Amphibious, Russian......not especially big though....

Bartini Beriev VVA-14

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartini_Beriev_VVA-14

 

[FordGT90Concept]

That defies classification. It doesn't have landing gear from what I can tell but it can still land on ground because of its ridiculously big floats and VTOL capability. It is technically amphibious but it really doesn't fit in that broad of a category.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

It falls into the category of a ground effect aircraft. They never managed the VTOL bit.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle#Ekranoplan_wing


Heres the biggest one...until im proved wrong of course....

Here is the largest STOL aircraft

 

[cornemuse]

This 'boat' will fit nicely in chine plans within their "nine dash line" hegemony scheme in the south china sea, , , ,

 

[dorsetknob]

This 'boat' will fit nicely in chine plans within their "nine dash line" hegemony scheme in the south china sea, , , ,

As mentioned in post 16 and 17

another possibility is Air Transportation to and from those New Islands that seem to be appearing in the south China Sea's
not all are yet big enough for a Land based Runway to be Built

When I first saw it posted, these are exactly the things I read in between the lines. I'm not really concerned about the former (namely because US subs are badass) but the latter is likely the motivation for China commissioning it.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

AG600, the world's largest amphibious aircraft in production, took to the skies on Sunday for its maiden flight.

The plane, codenamed 'Kunlong' according to state news agency Xinhua, took off from the southern city of Zhuhai and landed after roughly an hour-long flight.

With a wingspan of 38.8 metres (127 feet) and powered by four turboprop engines, the aircraft is capable of carrying 50 people and can stay airborne for 12 hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIC_AG600