Russia has begun developing an aircraft with an integrated arrangement of multiple engines. This was announced by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Director of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute named after N. E. Zhukovsky (TsAGI), Sergei Chernyshev.
According to him, such approaches provide scope for engineering creativity. In particular, they will help to implement new ideas for the configuration of the empennage, the location of engines, the placement of the cargo compartment and the passenger cabin.
TsAGI engineers are working on options for a new type of distributed power plant — with multiple engines located under, above the wing, in the front and rear of it. Such layouts provide greater flight safety, since a group of power units compensates for the failure of one or more of them.
They also considered an aircraft design that uses the supercirculation effect. In this case, the engines are located not in the lower part of the wing, but in the upper part, where they accelerate the air flow even more. This creates additional lift due to the artificial increase in the circulation of the wing surface.
Earlier, www1.ru reported that the VK-800 engine for the LMS-901 "Baikal" has begun testing on the Yak-40 flying laboratory.
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