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Maiden flight?Hole wrote:
magnumcromagnon wrote:Maiden flight?Hole wrote:
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And if Russia won't act now, that's what is going to happen in a decade or so.
According to the press service of the state corporation "Rostec" on December 16, 2020 at the airfield in Zhukovsky, a new passenger regional turboprop aircraft Il-114-300 made its first flight.
This is why China does as much as it possibly can by itself and only reluctantly deals with Russia. We see this attitude with Iran also. And to a lesser extent India.
This attitude doesn't bode well for the aviation industry in Russia.
Chinese arrogance is notorious.
It would be nice to know how noisy and vibration prone it is inside for passengers.
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Maximmmm wrote:Lots of good news at the end of the year!
Aeroflot sold Aurora airline for one ruble
Published by 17.12.2020, 18:48
On December 17, 2020, a regular meeting of the Board of Directors of PJSC Aeroflot took place in the form of a video conference. One of the considered was the question of the participation of PJSC "Aeroflot" in JSC "Airline" Aurora ".
The Board of Directors decided to terminate Aeroflot's participation in Aurora Airlines by selling Aeroflot's 396391 shares (51.00133%) in Aurora to JSC Sakhalin Region Development Corporation at a total price of 1 ruble.
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”Everything we did was for real and we were equally serious about the 75-seater aircraft project. For its domestic market, Russia needs precisely a 75-seat aircraft, something similar to the Soviet Tupolev Tu-134 regional jet [now no longer in operation]. The SSJ75 could have become the replacement for this aircraft. Besides, the SSJ was initially designed with 75 seats and that’s the configuration we ordered back in 2004. But later it was stretched into a 100-seater,” Filev recalls.
He is also confident that shrinking the aircraft to its original size would actually solve some problems – in particular, the engines were designed for a lower aircraft weight, so with adequate loads would suffer fewer malfunctions. The same is true for the wing. The SSJ75 could become an efficient airliner, and win over many regional carriers, Filev concludes.
“S7 Airlines has never asked for any special privileges from the government, so there must have been some business logic behind their order,” reasons Boris Rybak, general director of Infomost Consulting. “The shortened Superjet would have lower operational costs and it would offer a decent range and some Russian regional routes are quite extended. It could also offer better economy on those flights where 100-seat aircraft could be under loaded. But it’s unlikely that the lower weight would help solve the engine issues,” he says.
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Rodion_Romanovic wrote:They can't ban the PD14 to operate worldwide, that would open the pandora's box.
Even during the cold war Soviet civil aircrafts were flying from Soviet union to the US...
Even banning Russian carriers to operate in the US (at the moment no version of the MC21 has the range to fly from Russia to US cities, at least until an extra long range version of the MC21-400 will be done) could have the consequences of having all US planes banned in Russia.
The aircraft would not find customers in the US anyway, but several central or south american states could be interested in it (at least Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela), and some of them fly to the US.
What they could do would be to prohibit sale of pratt&withney engines for the MC-21... that could actually be a blessing in disguise for Russia... they would have to step up engine production and build new facilities, possibly causing some delays, but they would also spend the money for the engine operation and maintenance on Russian firms instead on american ones...
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GarryB wrote:And when Russian planes stop using US engines they will complain that they don't use US engines any more...
They will complain to the WTO because Russian planes don't come with US or other foreign engines as options...
The reasons for using foreign equipment were sound enough at the time and to be honest now they probably have the technology and skill to replace those systems with equipment that will certainly be cheaper but also more capable than some of the western systems that are considered world standard...
KRET has likely gained a lot with this sort of BS... and now that they are putting new engines into production and scaling their design for a range of other aircraft things are actually looking good... it is probably a good think a pro Russia candidate is not anywhere close to getting into the white house...
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