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DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
January 21, 2011 Friday
ARMENIA WILL TAKE OFF AT SUKHOI
by Victoria Chernysheva
SECTION: MILITARY INDUSTRIES & CONVERSION; No. 151
HIGHLIGHT: THE FIRST SERIES-MADE LINER SUKHOI SUPERJET-100 IS SOLD;
The first series-made airplane Sukhoi Superjet-100 (the seventh in
total) produced by the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aviation production
association was acquired by Armenian air company Armavia. It is
planned to supply four other such airplanes.
The first series-made airplane Sukhoi Superjet-100 (the seventh in
total) produced by the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aviation production
association was acquired by Armenian air company Armavia. It is
planned to supply four other such airplanes.
Their catalog price fluctuates from $40 million to $60 million
depending on technical characteristics.
Superjet was completed in the painting workshop of Ulyanovsk-based
Spektr-Avia to which the airplane flew from Komsomolsk-on-Amur being
primed. New materials with a big content of the so-called dry sediment
were used in paining. Such finishing is more durable. Thus, the
Ulyanovsk-based company tested a new technology at the airplane of
Sukhoi. Superjet has a cockpit different from other Russian airplanes.
It does not have a familiar control wheel. Its role is played by a
joystick. Such control scheme is used in Airbus.
Test pilot of the first class Leonid Chikunov said:
- I hope that military pilots will be able to fly such airplanes from
now on. Formerly, the path to civil aviation was blocked for them
because of the difference in controls. I have tested Superjets since
the first flight on May 19 of 2008. The airplanes are comfortable in
controlling. Two seagulls crashed right into the engine during the
tests but this did not influence its work.
>From Ulyanovsk the airplane named Gagarin went to Moscow where it
would pass all certification procedures. After that it will go to
Armenia. The second airplane was built for Aeroflot. Now it is being
pained in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Source: Rossiyskaya Gazeta, January 18, 2011, p. 5
From: A. Papazian
January 21, 2011 Friday
ARMENIA WILL TAKE OFF AT SUKHOI
by Victoria Chernysheva
SECTION: MILITARY INDUSTRIES & CONVERSION; No. 151
HIGHLIGHT: THE FIRST SERIES-MADE LINER SUKHOI SUPERJET-100 IS SOLD;
The first series-made airplane Sukhoi Superjet-100 (the seventh in
total) produced by the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aviation production
association was acquired by Armenian air company Armavia. It is
planned to supply four other such airplanes.
The first series-made airplane Sukhoi Superjet-100 (the seventh in
total) produced by the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aviation production
association was acquired by Armenian air company Armavia. It is
planned to supply four other such airplanes.
Their catalog price fluctuates from $40 million to $60 million
depending on technical characteristics.
Superjet was completed in the painting workshop of Ulyanovsk-based
Spektr-Avia to which the airplane flew from Komsomolsk-on-Amur being
primed. New materials with a big content of the so-called dry sediment
were used in paining. Such finishing is more durable. Thus, the
Ulyanovsk-based company tested a new technology at the airplane of
Sukhoi. Superjet has a cockpit different from other Russian airplanes.
It does not have a familiar control wheel. Its role is played by a
joystick. Such control scheme is used in Airbus.
Test pilot of the first class Leonid Chikunov said:
- I hope that military pilots will be able to fly such airplanes from
now on. Formerly, the path to civil aviation was blocked for them
because of the difference in controls. I have tested Superjets since
the first flight on May 19 of 2008. The airplanes are comfortable in
controlling. Two seagulls crashed right into the engine during the
tests but this did not influence its work.
>From Ulyanovsk the airplane named Gagarin went to Moscow where it
would pass all certification procedures. After that it will go to
Armenia. The second airplane was built for Aeroflot. Now it is being
pained in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Source: Rossiyskaya Gazeta, January 18, 2011, p. 5
From: A. Papazian