The National Research Center "Zhukovsky Institute" is working on a supersonic civil aircraft project that will be a unique technological breakthrough. The center's General Director, Andrey Dutov, called the project a "set of super-technologies."
The supersonic aircraft will be able to fly long distances at acceptable noise levels and will also be equipped with a fundamentally new "dark cabin" — pilots rely on a synthesized image of the external space, transmitted from cameras and thermal imagers.
And today, Russians are ahead in this area. In the West, transferring complex technical solutions to startups did not play the role that competitors had hoped for. Traditional industry science was able to solve this complex problem. Moreover, this technology is applicable to other classes of aircraft: to expand the conditions for their safe operation.
Dutov added that in three to four years, one can expect the appearance of the "Strizh" flight demonstrator, which will incorporate all the advanced technologies. According to him, this will be an unmanned aerial vehicle — smaller than a real production aircraft. It differs from Western counterparts in its unique aerodynamic design with a large elongation nose.
The manufacturing of an innovative composite fuselage section with a mesh structural- силовая scheme and a built-in monitoring system based on fiber-optic strain sensors is underway.
In the summer, the Ministry of Industry and Trade announced a tender for the execution of research and development work aimed at creating promising mainline and regional aircraft. The total cost of the contract was estimated at 13.44 billion rubles.
It also became known that the promising Russian aircraft MC-21-500 with a capacity of 270 passengers will fly in the sky with new PD-26 aircraft engines. While work is underway on the project, in the foreseeable future it is not possible to talk about the implementation of the project.
Earlier, www1.ru reported that ODK has accelerated the welding of parts for PD-8 and PD-14 engines by 10 times.
