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Date Posted 15 August 2008

Rosoboronehksport Refutes Chavez Words on Completion of Delivery of 24 Fighters

((Sergey Chemezov, Rostekhnologiya general director, says all Su-30MK2 still have not been delivered. Not further translated.))

Source: 15.08.08, Lenta.RU

Document Signing on Final State Tests of AI-222-25 Engine Installed on Yak-130 Airplane Planned for Before Opening of Airshow in Gelendzhik

The Moscow Salyut machine building production enterprise and Ukrainian Motor-Sich motor building enterprise plan to announce officially the conclusion of state tests of the AI-222-25 aircraft engine at the Hydroaviation Salon 2008 which will take place the beginning of September in Gelendzhik.

"We anticipate signing the document about conclusion of state tests for the AI-222-25 engine which is installed on the new Russian Yak-130 combat training airplane before opening of the air salon in Gelendzhik," the MMPP Salyut general director, Yuriy Eliseev, said at a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday.

He noted that this engine is being built in close cooperation with the Ivchenko-Progress and Motor Sich Ukrainian enterprises.

The AI-222-25 engine is intended for installation on modern training and lightweight combat airplanes of the Yak-130 type. The engines can be fitted with vectored thrust nozzles and also an afterburning chamber at customer request.

As of today, contracts already have been signed for the delivery of 12 Yak-130 combat trainers for the Russian air force and 16 for the Algerian air force. The first Yak-130 with AI-222-25 engines will begin to reach customers in early 2009.

Maximum takeoff thrust of the non-afterburning AI-222-25 is 2,500 kilograms. Engine thrust in maximum power ((REZHIM)) at an altitude of 5,000 meters at Mach 0.6 equals 1,450 kilograms and in cruising power at an altitude of 10,000 meters and Mach 0.6 is 300 kilograms. A modification of the engine develops up to 3,000 kilograms.

The engine has been developed in a modular design which allows rapid replacement of modules nearing the end of the service life during use or which have been damaged.

Source: 15.08.08, Interfax-AVN

SPM-21 Engine for New Russian MS-21 Airplane Cheaper and Easy Project to Realize -- MMPP Salyut General Director

((Title says it all. Not further translated.))

Source: 15.08.08, Interfax-AVN

Date Posted 14 August 2008

RSK MiG Receives Order to Upgrade Peruvian Fighters

((Nineteen MiG-29 in all. In 1996, 16 single-place and 2 MiG-29UB had been obtained from Byelorussia. Peru obtained three new MiG-29S from Russia in 1998. Upgrades should increase service life an improve performance. Not further translated.))

Source: 14.08.08, Lenta.RU

Yak-130 Tests Continuing Apace

((Third airplane has joined tests at Zhukovskiy. The Sokol plant will start building the first Yak-130 for Algiers at year's end. The Gromov Flight Research Institute's runway is presently closed.))

Source: 13.08.08, AviaPort.RU

MiG Corporation's Orders Approaching Five Billion Dollars

((Includes upgrades and overhauls of foreign MiG-29s. Contracts include MiG-29K/KUB for Indian navy and upgrades of MiG-29 in India, Serbia and elsewhere.))

Source: 13.08.08, Gudok

Date Posted 13 August 2008

New Telemetry System Installed in Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute's T-101 Low Speed Wind Tunnel

A new telemetry system has been installed and tested in the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute T-101 low speed wind tunnel. The introduction of the new system will improve the value of its information and allow obtaining more precise test results.

The telemetry system is intended for the contact-free transmission of information from rotating elements during tests of different types of propellors. It can be used for researching airplane and helicopter propellers, the blades of turbofan engines, and also the impellers of wind-driven power plants.

The system is supplied with special equipment for monitoring vibrations and loads on propeller blades, including in "oblique blowing" and "vortex ring" regimes.

Tests of the new telemetry system were performed with a standard Mi-17 helicopter tail rotor. Its blades were equipped with special resistance strain gauges, using which the hinge and deflection moments were measured, and also the blade's twisting moments.

The continuously operating T-101 wind tunnel has an elliptical cross section operational area with axis dimensions of 24 and 14 meters. Maximum air flow speed in the tunnel is 50 - 60 meters per second.

The first run-up of the tunnel took place in 1939. Tests of models of such airplanes as the Tu-154, Tu-144 and Tu-204, as well as different mode of helicopters have been made in the T-101 wind tunnel.

At the present time, diverse experimental studies of large-scale models of various flight vehicles are under way in the T-101.

((A color photo of the T-101 tunnel is at http://www.avia.ru/news/?id=1218545792.))

Source: 12.08.08, Avia.RU

Date Posted 12 August 2008

Indian Air Force Pilots in Su-30MKI Taking Part in International Exercises in the United States

((India will have six fighters at the Red Flag exercises at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. India has not participated previously in Red Flag. Not further translated.))

Source: 12.08.08, ARMS-TASS

Date Posted 11 August 2008

Arsen'ev Aircraft Plant's Yak-54 Deliveries Being Delayed

((Because M-14Kh engine still has not been certified. The Yak-54 is a sports plane. Not further translated.))

Source: 11.08.08, AviaPort.RU, Correspondent: Dmitriy Kozlov

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