Il-112V/Il-212 light military transport

Yes, I remember reading that... they had planes built specially for the mission and they were specially fitted out at extra cost and then they decided not to use them so they kept them in storage at extra cost.

Didn't hear what they ended up doing with them though.

Why mention them... this new plane is about to go into production in Russia to replace ex Soviet planes in Russia and it seems India is interested in producing this aircraft too, and not to mention countries around the world who are or were using ex Soviet planes of this type and are either still using them or have had to change to western equivalent aircraft and want to go back to cheaper simpler Russian designed planes... there is quite a market for Russia... the Ukraine does not even come in to it because they chose to cut Russia off.

Russia was happy to buy replacement aircraft from the Ukraine and was doing so, but the Ukraine thought they could do some damage to Russia, but in the end they have only destroyed their own aircraft and engine production capacity by cutting off their main customer and also forcing their now ex customer to make rival aircraft and engines superior to the ones Ukraine can no longer make...

The fat body allows more internal volume for large loads to be carried internally.

Small wings allow higher operating speeds with lower drag.

Not sure why a pencil thin plane with enormous wings would be useful for but it certainly wouldn't be for transport roles.

It's fat for its tiny engines. They need a bigger engine or cut the airframe

You want bigger engines to make it look better are you a fucking homo?

Ooh the plane has good performance but its ass is too big... if I flew on that plane all my boyfriends will tease me and I will be embarrassed.

Are you a gay 12 year old child of undetermined gender?

The body size and shape of an aircraft is determined by its load and internal dimension requirements.

The engine size is determined by its speed and performance requirements.

If anything having engines too small is perfection because small means less drag and lower weight... having big heavy engines is a bad thing.

Initially the aircraft was found to be a bit heavy and they reduced the weight accordingly in the two prototypes. I also saw somewhere that there was a balance issue? Normal growing pains - nothing disastrous.

It compares well to aircraft in it's class like the Italian G222 and CJ-27 Spartan and even the CASA 295/395 and all the specs compared to these planes seems to indicate that performance wise it will be fine.

It's engine are too small or the plane is too big.

Maybe it is a translation problem.

Are you meaning to say the engines are not powerful enough.

Having engines that are physically too small is not a problem.... it would be like saying a 3,000hp engine needs to be physically big and heavy... it does not and it is a better engine if it is not big and heavy.

Having a small low drag motor with lots of power is a good thing not a bad thing.

Having a big transport plane means extra drag which is bad, but means more internal volume for carrying more stuff which is a good thing.

The proportions boddy/wings/engines are weired when compared to other planes.

Big body means more internal space, small wing means higher flight speeds for the extra weight.

It was sent back in redesign because it was too big.

No it was not. The balance was wrong so they had to add a two ton ballast weight inside the aircraft to allow it to fly with the design at the time.

The redesign was about shifting the internal weight of the design to allow the ballast weight to be removed.

It is as big as it is to carry the payloads it needs to be able to carry.

It is something they should have seen during the design phase with digital simulations. They clearly did their work wrong.

If computer models were so wondering and perfect they could skip flight testing and just go to serial production.

In the real world they need flight testing and that will find problems the computer model is obviously not accurate enough to find, but flight testing can lead to finding errors in the computer model that can be further refined and made more accurate and realistic, so next time the flight test models will be more accurate and changes to the flight model become unnecessary.

She's not fat, she just likes to eat

Hahaha yes... she is a transport plane and has to eat her meals whole... imagine the result if she had to chew her food...