Russia will return to projects to create passenger supersonic aircraft, the country already has experience in this area. This confidence was expressed by Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev.
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He recalled that the domestic industry is currently busy creating fully import-substituted airliners - SJ-100 with PD-8 engines and MS-21 with PD-14 engines
I am sure that we will return to supersonic aircraft projects. We had such aircraft, the Tu-144, our domestic aircraft, 16 aircraft were designed, flew Moscow - Almaty in the Soviet Union. I think we will return to these topics.
Andrey Dutov, General Director of the National Research Center "Zhukovsky Institute", noted that the center is already working on a supersonic civil aircraft project, which will be a unique technological breakthrough for the country.
Earlier www1.ru reported that ODK has accelerated the welding of parts for PD-8 and PD-14 engines by 10 times.