Russian Civil Aviation: News #3

China is no real ally of Russia, it is just an opportunist. In many ways it is better than the yanqui dominated west, but it ain't no
angel.

I think that the current "love affair" with Russia is a ploy to find a new accommodation with the west. China is fighting to assert
itself. Once it reaches a new deal with the west it will turn on Russia as part of their camp.

kvs wrote:China is no real ally of Russia, it is just an opportunist. In many ways it is better than the yanqui dominated west, but it ain't no
angel.

I think that the current "love affair" with Russia is a ploy to find a new accommodation with the west. China is fighting to assert
itself. Once it reaches a new deal with the west it will turn on Russia as part of their camp.

Correct

Fortunately any new deal that US would offer would be neatly packaged sodomy so Chinese will be waiting for a long time for acceptable one

Full report:

Il-114-300 completed its first flight
Published by 16.12.2020, 15:57 | 214

Following the MS-21-310 with the Russian PD-14 engines, which rose into the sky the day before in Irkutsk, on December 16, 2020 at the airfield of the Flight Research Institute. Gromov, a new regional passenger turboprop aircraft Il-114-300, tail number 54114, made its first flight in Zhukovsky.

The aircraft was piloted by a crew consisting of Chief Pilot of PJSC "Il", 1st class test pilot, Hero of Russia Nikolai Kuimov and 1st class test pilot Dmitry Komarov, 1st class onboard test engineer Oleg Gryazev. The flight task involved checking the operating modes of the power plant, the stability and controllability of the aircraft, as well as the functioning of its systems.

“The end of the year is rich in aviation premieres. As you know, yesterday the MC-21-310 medium-range liner with PD-14 engines took off for the first time. Today the Il-114-300 turboprop took off for the first time - another aircraft in the passenger line, which our aircraft manufacturers will offer to carriers in the near future. The new aircraft is especially relevant for our country: it is not picky about the level of airfield equipment, it is adapted to operate in the harsh conditions of the North, Siberia, the Far East, and due to the optimal cabin capacity it can become the basic vehicle for the development of regional transportation. In 2022, UAC plans to complete the certification of the Il-114-300, and from 2023 - to begin serial deliveries, ”said Sergei Chemezov, CEO of Rostec State Corporation.

“In total, the program plans to manufacture and sell up to 100 aircraft of the Il-114-300 type for the period up to 2030 for delivery to civil aviation, government customers, and for export. With the receipt of the type certificate in 2022, the first production aircraft will be prepared for delivery, ”commented the head of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.

Earlier, at the end of November, photographs appeared on the Web where the Il-114-300 was taxiing and jogging along the runway with a separation of both the nose landing gear and with an approach of several centimeters above the runway.

“The first flight of the Il-114-300 is the result of the colossal work of tens of thousands of people - scientists, engineers, specialists - working in the design bureau and at the plants of the United Aircraft Corporation, at the enterprises of our suppliers and partners. The emergence of a new regional turboprop aircraft opens up new prospects for the Russian civil aircraft industry, ”said Yuri Slyusar, General Director of the United Aircraft Building Corporation.

The IL-114-300 propulsion system is represented by two TV7-117ST-01 engines with a takeoff power of up to 3100 hp. each. The power plant together with the engines includes a new high-thrust AV-112-114 propeller and a new automatic control system using a combined modernized engine control unit and a BARK-65SM propeller. This joint control allows you to maximize the potential of the characteristics of the engine and propeller, and generally increase the efficiency of the power plant.

Il-114-300 is the most anticipated passenger aircraft in Russia. Especially small regional airlines that operate the An-24/26 aircraft count on him. This hard worker, who took to the skies in 1959 (!!!), has no replacement yet - due to the lack of a domestic aircraft of this class, airlines have to buy turbojet airliners of Canadian and French production.

With the start of flight tests of the Il-114-300, the prospects for its commercial operation are getting closer. The media have more than once reported that Polar Airlines are waiting for him in Yakutia, KrasAvia in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and in Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, and Cherepovets, they will not give up on it, wherever an economical and unpretentious plane is needed ... There are also plans in the Russian Ministry of Defense to replace the Il-38 Novella anti-submarine aircraft with an Il-114-300 in the appropriate configuration.

The difficult and difficult year 2020 ends. We can only congratulate our aircraft and engine builders on the two most significant events of the outgoing year and thank them for their hard work and great news!

https://aviation21.ru/il-114-300-vypolnil-pervyj-polyot/

Just love the sound that turboprops make.

The Il-114-300 production forecast to 2030 averages one a month.

Chinese arrogance is notorious. They also look down on the west but like the Japanese respect it because of its apparent singular
power. They want to ascend to such global influence and are jockeying for a spot with the "mighty" west.

As for Russia's GDP. It is much greater than Texas and California combined. That comparison should tell you, no offense intended,
what an absurd estimate there is of Russia's nominal and PPP adjusted GDP. The PPP adjustment is based on the civilian sector of
the economy and not even all of the civilian sector. It is a fancy version of the Big Mac index where consumer prices are compared
for similar products. The problem is that most civilian products in Russia have prices similar to those in the west. This applies
to all electronics goods. Food is cheaper but not by a large factor. This pseudo-analysis gives a PPP factor between 2 and 2.5.
Clearly this factor totally fails to account for Russia's MIC.

The current PPP also fails to account for large civilian activity such as infrastructure. Russia does not spend $6 billion to upgrade
some airport. It can build a new one from scratch for much less. The cost of the Kerch Strait bridge would be way more than a
factor of 2 higher if built in the west. I have posted a cost comparison of the Paris metro expansion and that of an actually greater size
in Moscow (which is already built) in another part of this board. A real evaluation of Russia's PPP index would put it over 5 and
it is still missing critical qualitative differences. Texas + California is not a viable country and its raw GDP size hardly has the
diversity and sustainability of Russia's (and America's) GDP. The GDP scales with the population for obvious reasons assuming a
developed economy. So one would expect Russia to have half the GDP due to having half the population. But the US GDP also
reflects its global footprint via transnational corporate activity. Russia does not have such a footprint so its GDP will be smaller.
However, these differences are not important for its capability.