Photo by © RIA Novosti Technologies for creating hybrid electric vertical take-off and landing eVTOL aircraft, as well as the energy sources for them, are rapidly developing all over the […]
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Category: Engines
Tu-155: a plane ahead of its time
April 15, 1988 took place the first flight of the experimental aircraft Tu-155 with an engine running on cryogenic fuel. The crew commander was test pilot Vladimir Sevankaev, co-pilot Andrei […]
UEC-Aviadvigatel will replace foreign IT-products for designers
Photo by © UEC Press Service Based on the results of the competitive selection process, the Perm company UEC-Aviadvigatel has won a grant of the Russian Information Technology Development Fund […]
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VK-2500 engines are not enough for production of Mi-8/17 helicopters
Photo by © ODK-Klimov Press Service Production of Mi-8 family helicopters is limited by the production volumes of VK-2500 engines, said Denis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the […]
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Samara will double production of components for NK-32-02 engines and Russian product
Bench tests of engine NK-32-02. Photo by © UEC-Kuznetsov Press Service The United Engine Corporation has launched three new production facilities at the Samara-based UEC-Kuznetsov where it plans to double […]
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The VK-800SM engine is planned to be certified by the end of 2024
Photo by © CIAM Press Service The information was provided by the Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA JSC) during the press tour, where journalists were told about the development of […]
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Luhansk plans to start servicing helicopter engines
Photo by © Luhansk Aircraft Repair Plant press service Leonid Pasechnik, the LNR’s acting head, said in social networks about plans to resume service of Mi-8 and Mi-17 helicopter engines […]
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UEC-Saturn will assess the quality of aircraft engine parts using neural networks
Photo by © UEC press service United Engine Corporation has implemented a new method of luminescent quality control of aircraft engine parts using machine vision and neural network technologies. The […]
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An-26 could not take off from Irkutsk due to spontaneous engine shutdown
Photo by © Anastasia Yushkevich / russianplanes.net On April 2, when the AN-26 aircraft of Angara Airlines was moving from its parking place to the pre-start, the right engine shut […]
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Hybrid propulsion systems
Photo by © Andrei Shmatko / russianplanes.net The search for new types of propulsion systems in aviation has been ongoing throughout its history. Often there were parallel tests of engines […]
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