Interesting fact regarding China's Y-20 aircraft

[Mani2020]

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Back in 2005 two Flight colleagues -- Brendan Sobie and Andrew Doyle broke the story that China's Xian Aircraft Corp was developing a four-jet freighter sized between a C-130 and a C-17.


Nearly four years later, the always fantastic China Military Aviation site has posted the first images of the Y-20

It's perhaps worth noting that a California jury in July convicted Dongfan Chung, a former Boeing employee, of selling secrets about the C-17, among other things

According to Chinese web site, the Y-20 will weigh more than 400,000lb, placing the transport in an interesting gap between the 585,000lb C-17 and the roughly 311,000lb A400M

Source: C-17 and A400M had a baby ... in China - The DEW Line

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