Russian Civil Aviation: News #2

Austin wrote:Great Decision , They found launch customer for 100 aircraft , Hope they go for PD-7 engine and not American one

SINGAPORE: Sukhoi considering PW1000G power for Superjet shrink

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/singapore-sukhoi-considering-pw1000g-power-for-sup-445615/

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) has launched a major "shrink" derivative of the Superjet – and the variant could be powered by Pratt & Whitney's PW1000G geared turbofan when it enters service in 2022.

SCAC president Alexander Rubtsov revealed to FlightGlobal at the Singapore air show that a launch decision for the 75-seat derivative was made "last week" following a 100-aircraft commitment from an undisclosed Russian airline....

100 planes commitment from single Russian carrier alone? That's pretty impressive. Which one could it be?
I don't think Aeroflot does small stuff so it's most likely someone else but who knows?

Engines are secondary issue, there is plenty of time since they are optional anyway. What matters is that planes are manufactured and sold. They can always replace engines later.


I know Sukhoi promo team is currently touring Pakistan and Singapore with SSJ-100 so there also could be something there.

https://rg.ru/2017/11/14/superdzhet-100-stanet-menshe.html


Also, when they mentioned ''Superjet shrink'' in headline I thought they were sending that plane to see a psychiatrist.

Quotation Korotchenko with figures: The volume of financing for the development of the ground infrastructure of civil airports in 2000-2016 . amounted to about 497 billion rubles . 103 airports were modernized, 64 runways were reconstructed. To develop the ground airport infrastructure of remote and northern territories on the basis of 66 local airports and 15 landing sites , 7 federal state enterprises were created . According to figures, it should be about the number of about 800 local airports and landing sites. However, it is obvious that so many will not be invested and the issue will again be stretched to infinity.

By comparison for 2010, there were 15095 airports in the United States and accounted for 70% of the world's domestic air transportation.

franco wrote:Quotation Korotchenko with figures: The volume of financing for the development of the ground infrastructure of civil airports in 2000-2016 . amounted to about 497 billion rubles . 103 airports were modernized, 64 runways were reconstructed. To develop the ground airport infrastructure of remote and northern territories on the basis of 66 local airports and 15 landing sites , 7 federal state enterprises were created . According to figures, it should be about the number of about 800 local airports and landing sites. However, it is obvious that so many will not be invested and the issue will again be stretched to infinity.

By comparison for 2010, there were 15095 airports in the United States and accounted for 70% of the world's domestic air transportation.

The usual context-free propaganda BS. The vast majority of those US airports are rinky dink Cessna venues and not actual major airports that can service all sorts of aircraft. The same goes for 70% of all domestic transportation. This is mostly Cessna level private flight. No shit Russia does not have this culture. It was under 70+ years of communism and then a massive economic collapse from which it is still
recovering.

Just to be clear, that was a translation of a Russian article talking about another Russian article. Posted it for the non BS and propaganda ie numbers.

franco wrote:Just to be clear, that was a translation of a Russian article talking about another Russian article. Posted it for the non BS and propaganda ie numbers.

In spite of all the rabid claims in NATO how Russia's media is "state run", a huge part of it is pro-NATO and full of BS talking
points. The purpose of repeating this meaningless statistic is to spread anti-Russian propaganda about how vastly
undeveloped Russia is and how far in the Heavens is the precious west. An example of such NATO bootlick media in
Russia is Kommersant. This "respected" rag formerly owned by Berezovsky (the gangster oligarch) was busy trying to
bolster the claims of Syrian jihadis that they destroyed 7 Russian jets on the ground by trotting out totally irrelevant
photos of some aircraft damage (clearly not from mortar blasts). Job number one is to support Russia's enemies.

Austin wrote:Looks like Sukhoi has cancelled the SSJ-NG in favour of SSJ-75 , they mention its a business decision so as not to compete with Bombardier in the 130 seater market.

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Not just Bombardier, it would also overlap with 200 seat version of MS-21.

SSJ for 100 seats or below, MS-21 for above 100 seats. Makes sense.

Russia plane crash raises new questions about safety of Antonov jet

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-russia-crash-investigation-20180212-story.html

...One An-148 crashed during a training flight in Russia in March 2011, killing all six crew members on board. Investigators blamed pilot error....

Pilot error my ass, they probably dropped it on the pilot in order to keep ''joint'' useless political project running.

...In 2010, another An-148 operated by a Russian carrier suffered a major failure of its control system, but its crew managed to land safely.

In September, one engine of a Saratov Airlines An-148 shut down minutes after takeoff, but it landed safely. And in October, another An-148 that belonged to a different Russian carrier suffered an engine fire on takeoff but also managed to land. Engine shutdowns have occurred on several other occasions....

This thing is a flying coffin and disaster waiting to happen.

On top of everything it's existence probably hindered introduction of SSJ-100 in the earlier phases which would have saved lives.









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First  L-410 delivered to civilian operator

https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/103847/

The second flight of the first prototype of the Ka-62 helicopter?



https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3097287.html

Looks like company that plans to order 100 SSJ-75s is S7 Airlines

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3553922?from=hotnews

This is same company that bought SeaLaunch

Remember that fully composite An-2 derivative called TVS2-DTS?

Well, it just got it's first order, Mongolian Hannu Air ordered​ 6 of them.

http://tass.ru/sibir-news/4990449

Militarov wrote:[.....

Sad part is its using Honeywell TPE331-12UAN engine and Hartzell Propellers... Austrian gearbox...etc, etc. For now at least.

True but new engines were never project end goal, priority was creating composite aircraft based off existing design which they nailed 100%

Fun part is what comes next: they are well into doing same with Yak-40, composite body and two engines instead of three like in original version

That one will be something, I posted differences​ between types several pages back and if they hit anywhere near those numbers, oh boy...

miketheterrible wrote:.......

Went back a few pages, cant find it.

That would be awesome, fully composite Yak-40.

Here, page 19 actually, took me a while to find it, it's been longer than I remember:

https://www.russiadefence.net/t6295p450-russian-civil-aviation-news-2#191645

Under photo of SSJ

Sad part is its using Honeywell TPE331-12UAN engine and Hartzell Propellers... Austrian gearbox...etc, etc. For now at least.

The reality is that the original engine of the An-2 is a licence produced Wright engine anyway... if they want to replace all existing An-2s with this bird then it is well worth developing a custom designed engine for it, and perhaps a gearbox and props for its specific role/purpose...

From what I have read the reduction in weight and increase in power means its stall speed has gone from 48km/h to very very low... so in a 50km/h headwind it could fly backwards under full flight control...