Aviation

Kemerovo engineer invents airship with rocket engines and EW
Sergey Zubov patented the BUMERAD with a forward-swept wing and hydrogen

Indian Zero-Size Fleet: Who Will Buy 105 Il-114-300 Aircraft?
Three young airlines that don't even operate regular flights could become buyers of turboprops

Lyulka Design Bureau Develops 6-Stage Supersonic Engine Stator
The new HPC features supersonic blade profiles for the first two stages and an adjustable inlet

Uzbekistan Replaces Soviet An-26s with Brazilian C-390s
The first military transport Embraer was presented to the republic's Air Force, with another aircraft to be delivered later

Il-114-300 to be sent to India, while Russia will have to switch to trains
Viktor Gorbachev, a member of the Public Council under Rosaviatsiya, called the transfer of airliners abroad a great risk

Tu-214 vs. Boeing 757-200: Which Aircraft is Better?
The Kazan airliner lost in terms of fuel efficiency but wins in commercial payload.

Cessna 172 training aircraft crashes in Tatarstan: two dead
The aircraft hit a TV tower and fell into the garden of a private house in Shemordan

Three More Russian Airlines Start Accepting Digital Ruble Payments for Tickets
Purchases are made via QR code without using a traditional bank card

Third new Tu-214 transferred to flight test station
KAZ may launch two airliners at once for the first time in a year

Thousands of Scenarios Before Takeoff: How the Digital MC-21 is Tested
The model checks reactions to lightning strikes and engine failure before aircraft assembly

Why keep a helicopter in the rain for 40 minutes: Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant showed an unusual test
The enterprise refined the system for checking machines after problems with hermeticity in tropical climates

Russia had to transport the PD-8 engine to India for new international approval
Aviation expert Vladimir Popov: New Delhi will help the power plant overcome foreign market restrictions

MS-21 compared to an 80s aircraft: designer doubts superiority
Mikhail Rozhkov suggested evaluating airliners not by their design age, but by their real benefit to Russia

CIAM reveals RPD-150T parameters: Russian 150 hp engine prepared to replace Rotax
The power plant is designed for light aircraft or UAVs and has a service life of over 3000 hours
