Russian Civil Aviation: News #2

Looks like Iran will finally bite the bullet unless there is a fine print somewhere

Iran to buy 40 Russian SSJ-100 airplanes

"Iran Airtour" and "Iran Aseman" airlines will each get 20 SSJ 100

http://avia.pro/news/iran-pokupaet-40-rossiyskih-avialaynerov-ssj-100

Superjet. 10 years in the sky! , Unseen Photos

https://fotografersha.livejournal.com/991125.html

@GarryB - true form economic point of view, nonetheless US elites can sacrifice any economical profit of own companies to fight Russia. Simply because Russia is an existential threat to US (their own words) and money lost are not vital to Us economy.

That is probably true, though the elites we are talking about are very very rich people who did not become rich by turning down opportunities to make money.

No, these elites are very careful... they will sacrifice things european companies make and sell to Russia for which the make or own the property rights to economically minor but otherwise critical components on... they lose money not selling those components while someone else misses out on major contracts...

The sanctions the US has demanded and the west has imposed has hurt Russia but has probably hurt Europes bottom line the most.

I fully agree with Song Hongbing (Currency Wars) - first build a parallel economy i.e.not dollar based so you give other a chance to escape from uncle scum then fight otherwise you might get almost as hard as Us when $ goes to drain.

Indeed... something the US never learns... don't break something until you have a replacement at the ready... otherwise you end up with chaos... of course they could not care less about the Libyan people or the Iraqis for that matter... fortunately for Iraq they sorted their shit out.... no thanks to uncle sam.

They do not make money they print money. they wan power, resources slaves.

More accurately the US as a country prints money... the elites directing the steering of the ship don't and can't... they have to steal their money from the American people... you know... cheap foreign labour, not paying their fair share of local or foreign taxes... plain old corruption... you know the stuff.

Just look at Google... you buy a share but do you read the fine print?

They don't pay dividends on shares and they value each share at 0.0001 dollar US... so the only value you can get in the US stock exchange is to try to sell your worthless share to some idiot who does not realise it has no value... you know... the basis of a pyramid scheme... keep selling and don't be the last one holding the potato or you get burned.

Do you really think Soros, Rockefeller or JP Morgan

I try not to think of them at all...

If they loose 20 or 50 billions in trade war with Russia it doesn't matter. Thsi is not vial for economic survival. However if Us wins all Siberia and arctic ir+ educated population is ultimate prize.

They way they treat Russian people why would they ever think about winning anything in that region except a guerilla war?

Shrunk Superjet to have more commonality with MC-21

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/shrunk-superjet-to-have-more-commonality-with-mc-21-448757/


Sukhoi assessing engine options for 'Russified' Superjet

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/sukhoi-assessing-engine-options-for-russified-supe-448567/


S7 expects initial Superjet 75 design proposal by year-end

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/s7-expects-initial-superjet-75-design-proposal-by-ye-448121/

Russia's S7 confirms interest in up to 75 shrink Superjets

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/russias-s7-confirms-interest-in-up-to-75-shrink-sup-448059/

If it happens, that is huge for SSJ series jets. Hopefully they can find more interested parties outside. I think initial 40 from Iran is good, but I would imagine many of the smaller nations south of Russia in Caucuses would be interested in the SSJ and MS-21 seeing as they would fit quite well for their needs.

New civilian helicopter VRT500

https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/107464/

https://fotografersha.livejournal.com/992385.html

That cockpit looks God damn unifinished like Lasta 95.

Craic CR929 Now Larger Than Airbus A330
May 23, 2018 Bradley Perrett and Maxim Pyadushkin | Aviation Week & Space Technology

The Sino-Russian Craic CR929 widebody airliner has grown during development and now requires greater thrust than envisaged before program launch last year. The aircraft, comparable with the Airbus A330-900 in a 2015 concept design, is now rather larger: It is approximately the same length as the Airbus aircraft but has a wider fuselage, enough for nine-abreast economy seating.

An engine type generating 78,000 lb. thrust is now needed; in 2015, thrust per engine was 71,226–75,000 lb.

Craic is a consortium of Comac and United Aircraft Corp. (UAC). Comac has released basic data for one preliminary design iteration; UAC unit Sukhoi Commercial Aircraft has provided figures for another, evidently the latest one. Differences presumably reflect progress in refining characteristics.

Dimensions and thrust have crept up from the original concept design’s

But Comac and UAC are sticking to 12,000-km range

Range in both available design iterations remains as it was in the 2015 concept: 12,000 km (7,460 mi.), about the same as for the A330-900 and Boeing 787-10. This is enough to cover 95% of medium- and long-haul routes, says Comac.

In the design described by Sukhoi, seating in a three-class cabin arrangement is 281. The A330-900 has a typical three-class capacity of 287, says Airbus, but the comparison is almost meaningless, because of the great number of variations in premium cabins in long-haul aircraft.

More telling are fuselage dimensions. These show that the CR929 will carry more passengers than the A330-900 for a given seating standard. The aircraft is now 63.25 m (208 ft.) long, says Sukhoi. That is just 45 cm (18 in.) shorter than the A330-900.

The Russian company does not give the width of the fuselage, but for the preliminary design described by Comac the figure is about 5.9 m. This can be judged from the proportions of a drawing of that design. For the 2015 concept design the precise measurement was 5.92 m, obviously intended for nine-abreast seating. Width is unlikely to have changed much in the design for which Sukhoi provided figures.




The A350, designed for rows of nine seats, has almost the same width, 5.96 m. The A330, by contrast, is wide enough for only eight-abreast seating. Craic has rejected the choice Boeing made with the 787: to design a fuselage that could take rows of eight comfortably wide seats and aisles or nine narrow seats in a squeezed arrangement.

The CR929 is evidently intended mainly to replace the A330-300, which has the same fuselage length as the A330-900, says Sash Tusa from analysis company Agency Partners in London. A330-300s have become the workhorses of China’s busiest domestic routes over the past decade; they will be ripe for replacement in the years after 2027, the latest point at which the CR929 is supposed to be ready for service.

Comac and Sukhoi may have increased the size of the CR929 because they expect airlines to want more seats for A330-300 missions by the time aircraft of that type retire. The design may have been enlarged twice. The chief designer for the CR929 at Comac, Chen Yingchun, said in September 2017 that 75,000 lb. was required. That was at the top end of the band in the 2015 concept design; now an even higher figure is specified.

Comac showed one preliminary design iteration on May 15 at an aeroengine conference in Shanghai organized by Galleon. Sukhoi subsequently provided details at Aviation Week’s specific request, so its figures should relate to the latest design. (In the table shown the two sets of data—from Comac and Sukhoi, respectively—are only arbitrarily labeled as Design Iterations A and B; official names for them are unknown.)



Aviation Week published details of the concept design in late 2015 (AW&ST Oct. 12-25, 2015, p. 37). It was defined only approximately by ranges of values, but figures for fuselage dimensions, weight and thrust indicated that the aircraft’s size was in the ballpark of the A330-900’s. Fuselage length is now at the upper end of the concept-design ranges, and the increase in thrust suggests that weight has correspondingly increased.

Span has apparently risen in at least two steps: in the design described by Comac it is in the upper half of the 58-61-m band planned in 2015; in the design detailed by Sukhoi, it is well beyond that band. Indeed, at 63.86 m it is barely less than the values for the A330-900 and A350.

To compete, Craic first needs a Western engine for the CR929, and it requested proposals in December. GE Aviation or Rolls-Royce are the only contenders, because Pratt & Whitney is concentrating on engines for narrowbody aircraft. Chinese and Russian engine companies have proposed alternatives; a merged Sino-Russian engine program is also possible.

In 2016 UAC assumed Rolls-Royce or GE would each offer an engine of about the same technology level as was then available for Airbus or Boeing aircraft. GE’s candidate would probably be a version of the GEnx, which in its GEnx-1B76 standard produces 76,100 lb. thrust for the 787-10. Rolls-Royce is likely to offer a version or derivative of the Trent 7000. This is rated at only 68,000–72,000 lb. for the A330-900 but is closely related to the Trent 1000 TEN of the 787, which the FAA has certified at 78,129 lb.

A consideration for the engine-makers is that Craic is likely to want the chosen turbofan to have spare thrust for the planned stretched version of the CR929.

—With Guy Norris in Los Angeles

This article has been updated to indicate that Craic is developing the CR929 and that the fuselage width for Design Iteration A is about 5.9 m (19.4 ft.).

How does 787-9 has longer range and higher MTOW compared to CR929 when their dimension are all but same ?

All the 3 variant show the same range 12,000 but CR929 has a MTOW of 208-234 T while 787-9 has MTOW 254 T and 14,000 km range , Rest all parameter remains same.

So why does 787-9 has higher MTOW and longer range than CR929 when dimensionally both are similar

Results and prospects of flights SSJ-100 for 10 years

Подробнее на ТАСС:
http://tass.ru/ekonomika/5215317

Interview: Head of UAC: we are discussing the issue of attracting private capital to the company

http://tass.ru/pmef-2018/articles/5236334

Austin wrote:All the 3 variant show the same range 12,000 but  CR929 has a MTOW of 208-234 T while 787-9 has MTOW 254 T and 14,000 km range , Rest all parameter remains same.

So why does 787-9 has higher MTOW and longer range than CR929 when dimensionally both are similar

20 tons heavier (larger fuel tanks) = more range.

Good Interview on Superjet Program

"We are switching to new materials and other aerodynamics"

http://expert.ru/expert/2018/23/myi-perehodim-na-novyie-materialyi-i-druguyu-aerodinamiku/

Boeing says it will not deliver any aircraft to Iran

Boeing will not deliver aircraft to Iran in light of US sanctions, effectively aborting a pair of large contracts with Iranian carriers, a Boeing spokesman said today.
By: AFP | New York | Published: June 6, 2018 11:02 PM

https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/boeing-says-it-will-not-deliver-any-aircraft-to-iran/1196332/

This yet again presents the Russian aircraft industry with a good sales prospect and its knocking the doors a second time.
The idiots should stop promoting and presenting the Sukhoi SSJ100 for each and every requirements in the international market and should realise that there is a slot above that of SSJ and Russia have an aircraft in that class in the form of Tu-204. So promote the Tu-204 to the Iranians and make some good deals rather than pushing the SSJ where it is not meant to and waiting for the MS-21 to come online.

Tu-204-300 with one of the best livery that I have seen.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3229468.html

Yes, Tu-204 had a lot of prospects. And it was all Russian. Had a lot of newer stuff in it too. Should be modernized again with what learned from SSJ and then offer it to Iran. Not just offer it, but even offer production in Iran.

The modernised and latest variant of Tu-204 is the Tu-204SM, which had its first flight in 2010. Unlike the earlier Tu-204, it have a two-pilot crew. But no sales as of yet which is really very bad, but this mainly has to do with the aircraft not getting the required support in the form of promoting it to home and international customers.


http://www.tupolev.ru/en/civil_aviation/tu-204sm

Boeing in December 2016 announced an agreement to sell 80 aircraft valued at USD 16.6 billion to Iran Air. Boeing also announced a contract in April 2017 to sell Iran Aseman Airlines 30 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft for USD 3 billion, with purchase rights for another 30 aircraft.

Iran presents a good market and with the Boeing deal likely not going through, it presents a good opportunity for the Russian aircraft. Hope this time, the opportunity that came knocking the door is not wasted.




There is also another opportunity to get good numbers, which is by investing in the Air India disinvestment. Get hold of stake in Air India and in due time order Tu-204SM.

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/future-course-for-air-india-disinvestment-to-be-decided-by-group-of-ministers-suresh-prabhu-2585399.html

The deadline for submission of Expression of Interest (EoI) ended on May 31, with not a single bidder evincing interest in the airline.

In nearly two decades, this is the second time that Air India stake sale has not taken off.

The government has proposed to offload 76 per cent equity share capital of the national carrier as well as transfer the management control to private players, as per the preliminary information memorandum.

The transaction will involve Air India, its low cost arm Air India Express and Air India SATS Airport Services Pvt Ltd.

Under the proposed disinvestment process, around Rs 33,000 crore debt would have remained with Air India. The national carrier's debt burden was about Rs 50,000 crore at the end of March 2017.

Govt to pursue Air India stake sale this fiscal, revised bidding norms likely soon
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/govt-to-pursue-air-india-stake-sale-this-fiscal-revised-bidding-norms-likely-soon-2585205.html

Russia should put up some special fund and order a few dozen Tu-204/-214 for all its agencys and ministries that still fly outdated planes like Yak-40/-42, Il-18, Tu-134 and so on.