"Weilong", "Kunpeng", "Auspicious Bird" ... the aircraft industry releases aircraft product brand naming rules

The picture shows the J-20 "Weilong" (Photo Conferring of China Aviation Industry Group)

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 1st (Reporter Hu Yan, Song Chen) On July 1, China Aviation Industry Group Co., Ltd. first announced the name of aircraft product brand naming rules and released the names of various types of products in 18 brand series. It covers eight types of machines, bomber, bomber, transport aircraft, special aircraft, trainer, helicopter, general aircraft and drones.

The 18 military-civilian aircraft brand series released this time include: the "Dragon" series of land-based fighters, such as the J-20 as "Weilong"; the "Shark" series of carrier-based fighters, such as the J-15 as the "Flying Shark" ; "God" series bombers, such as the -6k-6K as "God of War"; "Peng" series of military transport aircraft, such as Yun-20 as "Kunpeng"; "Thousands of Eyes" series of warning/investigating aircraft, such as Air Police-500 as "Thousand Miles Eye Eye Eye Eye -500; "Sea Eagle" series of anti-submarine patrol aircraft, such as Yun-8 anti-submarine patrol aircraft "Sea Eagle-8"; "Thunderbolt" series of communication confrontation aircraft, such as Yun-9 communication confrontation aircraft "Thunderbolt-9"; "Eagle" series of coaching aircraft, such as L15/Education-10 as "Falcon"; "God Eagle" series of tactical general helicopters, such as straight-20 as "God Eagle-20"; "Perak Fire" series of special armed helicopters Rudao-10 is "Thunderbolt-10".

The civil aircraft series includes: "Auspicious Birds" series of civil helicopters, such as AC-313 as "Auspicious Bird-313"; large-scale water and land amphibious aircraft AG600 named "Dragon", high-end universal aircraft named "Lingxiang", ordinary type The general aircraft is named "collar geese", and the airships and aura are named "Xiangyun". In addition, civilian transport aircraft are still named after the "Xinzhou" series. Military and civilian drones have retained the brand names of the three series of "pterosaur", "cloud shadow" and "Xuan Ge".

[Editor in charge: Jiao Peng]

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