Russian Civil Aviation: News #3

Nibiru wrote:Russia has no need to redesign MC-21’s wing after imports substitution, says official



KAZAN, March 22. /TASS/. Russia won’t have to redesign the wing of the MC-21 airliner after the substitution of US composite materials by domestic components, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on Friday.


http://tass.com/economy/1050083

Airline Rusline is negotiating with JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and Ilyushin Finance Co. about leasing 18 SSJ100 aircraft for a period of 12 years, the newspaper said.Commersant". Negotiations have been going on for eight months already, the parties are planning to sign a preliminary agreement on the deal soon.

The signing of the contract was delayed due to the lack of clarity around the SSJ100 budget subsidy for leasing, which Rusline wants to receive. The company relies on expansion in the regions with the use of state support tools, while the risk of creating excess carrying capacity is not predicted, since In this market there is a shortage of both routes and airplanes.

It is assumed that the aircraft will be transferred to leaseback for 12 years, deliveries will begin in 2019 and will continue for five years. Now there are 18 CRJ-100/200 airplanes for 50 seats in the airline's fleet. Negotiations are underway to supply the SSJ100 to 108 seats. The company's management is considering two options for the development of the park: its doubling or gradual withdrawal of old CRJs as Russian-made aircraft arrive.

The head of Infomost, Boris Rybak, notes that the benefits and risks of the operating company largely depend on the size and degree of state support and the assistance of the lessor in providing technical maintenance for ships. “The operating experience of the SSJ100 is clear today, and the carrier knows what weaknesses the aircraft has and what it has to work with,” the expert says. He specifies that the excess carrying capacity is observed today on the main routes between Moscow and other cities of Russia, but the situation is different in regional directions.

The GSS confirmed the interest of the airline to the aircraft and the fact of negotiation. The manufacturer declined additional comments before signing the contract. In Rusline and IFC do not comment on the situation.

marat wrote:Adria Airways canceled LoI fo 15 Su-100. They have even started process of pilot and crew engagement and chosen first 2 planes but at the end they canceled Loi.

GunshipDemocracy wrote:Im wondering what civilian usage could  have il-112V, Borisov was advertising it as an universal platform also for civilian use.

Austin wrote:
During Natural Disaster can be use to Transport Civil Person along with equipment from remote areas of Siberia where normal civil flights may not be possible  , We use C-130 and Il-76 for this role in North East India

In case the MS-21 never finds customers, the VVS should reconfigure it to be an ASW aircraft. There's no reason not to do so.

GarryB wrote:

In case the MS-21 never finds customers, the VVS should reconfigure it to be an ASW aircraft. There's no reason not to do so.

The western sanctions forcing them to make it all Russian makes it much more attractive to the Russian military and it is a good size for a range of roles... it would be a rather good replacement for the Il-38 and Il-20 and Il-22 aircraft they have in service as well as their Tu-134 and Tu-154 and Il-62 based airliner transport types.

dino00 wrote:Rostec creates a 3D printer to print turbine blades for aircraft engines

Rostec is creating a 3D printer that will allow printing of engine parts for rockets and airplanes, including turbine blades, the press service of the company reports.

“The electron-beam 3D printer will make it possible to manufacture parts for jet engines of rockets and turbine blades for aircraft engines, individual medical implants, jewelry of complex shape, lightweight elements of architectural structures, as well as metal-porous thermal cathodes,” the message said.

It also emphasizes that the main advantages of printing using metal powders are high speed and accuracy of work, as well as low sensitivity to the quality of powders.

https://tvzvezda.ru/news/opk/content/2019481548-m1xpS.html

aviation21.ru wrote:The Prosecutor General’s Office warned the Ministry of Industry and Trade about the risk of disrupting the defense order if the Be-200 amphibious aircraft of the D-436TP Ukrainian-made engines were replaced with SaM146 engines with components from NATO countries. This follows from the report of the Prosecutor General Yury Chaika on the state of legality and law and order in the Russian Federation in 2018, received by the Council of the Federation, RIA Novosti reports.

"The Ministry of Industry and Trade, within the framework of development work for the needs of the Defense Ministry, costing about 13 billion rubles to remotorize the Be-200 amphibious aircraft, planned to replace Ukrainian-made engines with engines that use components from a number of NATO member countries. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office informed the risk of disrupting the defense order due to the imposed sanctions, "the report says.

The position of the supervisory authority was taken into account, the decision to actually replace one foreign engine with another has been canceled, the prosecutor general said.

Currently, the D-436TP engine produced by Motor Sich, Ukraine, is being installed on the Be-200 multi-purpose amphibian aircraft. The United Engine Corporation (UEC) in September last year announced plans to complete the aircraft remotorization by the end of 2020 by installing Russian-French engines SaM146, which is produced by PowerJet, a joint venture of the Russian NPO Saturn and the French company Snecma.

Thus, the Be-200 can only be remotorized with the advanced PD-7 engine. However, there is practically no information on this engine, it is also unknown at what stage its development is. The first official mention of him was in February 2018 in the context of the message of JSC GSS about the beginning of work on the Superjet aircraft for 75 passenger seats.

dino00 wrote:Rostec creates a 3D printer to print turbine blades for aircraft engines

Rostec is creating a 3D printer that will allow printing of engine parts for rockets and airplanes, including turbine blades, the press service of the company reports.

“The electron-beam 3D printer will make it possible to manufacture parts for jet engines of rockets and turbine blades for aircraft engines, individual medical implants, jewelry of complex shape, lightweight elements of architectural structures, as well as metal-porous thermal cathodes,” the message said.

It also emphasizes that the main advantages of printing using metal powders are high speed and accuracy of work, as well as low sensitivity to the quality of powders.

https://tvzvezda.ru/news/opk/content/2019481548-m1xpS.html

bolshevik345 wrote:

dino00 wrote:Rostec creates a 3D printer to print turbine blades for aircraft engines

Rostec is creating a 3D printer that will allow printing of engine parts for rockets and airplanes, including turbine blades, the press service of the company reports.

“The electron-beam 3D printer will make it possible to manufacture parts for jet engines of rockets and turbine blades for aircraft engines, individual medical implants, jewelry of complex shape, lightweight elements of architectural structures, as well as metal-porous thermal cathodes,” the message said.

It also emphasizes that the main advantages of printing using metal powders are high speed and accuracy of work, as well as low sensitivity to the quality of powders.

https://tvzvezda.ru/news/opk/content/2019481548-m1xpS.html

Will it be able to print composite turbine blades?

Also what hurdles in material science haven't the russian figured out that they can't make composite engine blades, but can make composite wings? Is it because Russian material scientists cannot figure out yet how to make composite materials withstand high temperatures and pressures while being flexible at the same time?