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Today is Friday, September 3, 2010

On this date in Russian Aviation History.

1912 - Opening of the second Russian military airplane competition. Victors: I.I. Sikorsky bi-plane, "Dux" bi-plane (Farman), and the "Dux" monoplane (Nieuport-IV).
1929 - Test navigator V.K. Elizarov is born.
1930 - First flight of the TsAGI 1-EhA helicopter, the first domestic helicopter.
1984 - First flight of the experimental T10-25 (Su-27K) from a ski ramp at the Nitka complex, N.F. Sadovnikov.
1995 - Completion of round-robin flight by V.P. Kondrat'ev in an SM-92 airplane.
1995 - Aerial parade and celebration of 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War takes place in Vladivostok.

Today's News

Russia and India Discuss Pace of Joint Aviation Projects

The 24th regular meeting of the subcommittee for aircraft construction of the Russo-Indian Intergovernmental Commission on Military and Technical Cooperation (IRPA) took place in the period from 30 August through 3 September in Moscow.

The manager of the HAL corporation, Ashok Naiak, headed the subcommittee for the Indian side and the President of OAO OAK Aleksey Innokent'evich Fedorov for the Russian. Representatives of the Indian defense ministry and air force headquarters, representatives of Russia's FSVTS, Rosoboronehksport and managers of Russian aircraft building, engine building and aircraft instrument building enterprises also took part in IRPA's work.

Consultations of experts and discussions with Indian industry leaders and military with the leadership of Russian IRPA subjects, the visitation of the Indian delegation to the Flight Test Institute in Zhukovskiy and familiarization with the manufacture of Su-30MKI airplanes at the facilities of the Irkut corporation took place within the framework of the subcommittee's operation.

The sides examined the following basic questions during the meetings:

- projects for the joint development of a multipurpose transport airplane (MTA) and the fifth generation fighter (FGFA);

- status of fulfillment of contracts for licensed production in India of Su-30MKI airplanes and RD-33 aircraft engines, and also the development and manufacture of the AL-55I aircraft engine;

- the pace of the fulfillment of contact ((sic, may be "the contract")) for deliveries of MiG-29K/KUB airplanes for maritime basing for India's air force;

- fulfillment by the parties of contract obligations in the area of the upgrade of Russian manufactured aircraft equipment delivered earlier to India, and also a number of other projects.

Decisions on the basic agenda questions have been included in the IRPA final minutes and will be presented to the co-chairmen of the Russo-Indian Intergovernmental Commission on Military and Technical Cooperation - the defense ministers of Russia and India.

Source: 03.09.10, Aviation Explorer

Ukraine Completes Assembly of First An-32 Airplane for Iraq

GK Antonov has completed assembly of the first of six An-32 airplanes for Iraq, RBK reports. The aircraft has been painted in the colors of the customer and will be transferred to them in September after the execution of several test flights.

It is planned to finish two more An-32 in 2010. In 2011, Iraq is supposed to receive three such aircraft.

The specialized export firm Progress, a subsidiary of Ukrspetsehksport, signed the contract for the delivery of six An-32 airplanes to Iraq for a total of nearly 80 million dollars.

Source: 03.09.10, Avia.RU

Next Week's Russian Aviation News Translations

The Russian Aviation News will not be translated on Wednesday, 8 September. There also is a chance it will not be translated on Thursday and/or Friday of next week, though your friendly translator may not know before that time.

As always, anything missed will be caught up.

These news items are translated or gisted primarily from two Russian Web sources: http://www.avias.com/, which provides whole articles, but sometimes is several days or even weeks behind in publishing them for whatever reason, and< a>, which also sometimes posts in English itself.

The articles translated here include only information about new Russian aircraft, those under development or modification, foreign sales, etc. The original publication date and source name appear after each item, but not the Web-site source. All articles are copyright by the original source. To save time, some items are gisted and are not direct translations.

Any comments are in double parenthesis - ((comment here)). I am not responsible for typographical errors or errors in translation. The whole purpose of this page is to give readers the opportunity to learn about Russian aviation advances on a somewhat timely basis.

The translations are posted by 9:30 a.m. U.S. East Coast time. There are no items on weekends, Russian holidays, nor when I am away, but the feature "Today in Russian Aviation History"is automated and runs daily, 7 days a week. Information for this series comes from the two sources above, as well as:
http://www.royfc.com/http://www.rusavia.ru/calendar/date.html and/or http://www.royfc.com/http://ts.vpk.ru/www-vpk/netnews/

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