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 ...lopment.
ALEXANDER VELOVICH/MOSCOW
Alarge crowd of workers, designers and officials received an early, but welcome, Christmas present at Svyatoshino air field, Kiev, on 16 December, 1994, when
the Antonov An-70 took off for the first time.
It did so after a demonstratively short take-off
run. 1 Ialf an hour later, and earlier than initial
ly expected because of worsening weather con
ditions...
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 ...ft impasse
Germany's eye on
the East is set to
further tangle
Europe's tactical
transport web
DOUGLAS BARRIE/LONDON
THE SIGHT OF AN airlifter over Berlin used to be welcome. In the case of the Antonov An-70, making its Western show debut, there will be diose among the crowd
who wish it had remained in Ukraine.
The An-70 is being championed by none
other than Volker Ruhe,Germany's defence...
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Manufacturer
Aircraft
Mission
Comments
SHAANXI
Y-8X Cub
Transport
Powerplant
4 x South
Aeroengine
WJ9 turboprop
Max power
IlkWI
Max thrust
(lb)
3,...
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 ...NTONOV An-70
close to 6kg/cm2. Landing-gear clearance
is adjustable by levelling the cabin floor
to that of a truck, to ease loading/
unloading operations.
The An-70 has a wingspan of 44.06m
(4...
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 ...NTONOV An-70
The roll-out of the Antonov An-70 transport in the Ukrainian capi tal Kiev might be regarded as something akin to a miracle,
given the country's parlous economy and
soaring rate of in...
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 ...III helicopter and the
other by a McDonnell
Douglas F-18. The SLAM is
launched and controlled by
carrier-based aircraft.
An-70 crash threatens
programme's future
ALEXANDER VELOVICH/MOSCOW
THE ANTONOV AN-70 four-engine military trans
port-aircraft programme faces
collapse following the loss of the
prototype aircraft, only two
months after its first flight.
The propfan-powered aircraft ...
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 ...s have been complet
ed, and are undergoing al
titude and crosswind studies.
BMW R-R is aiming for cert
ification in the third quarter
of 1998, with first flight on a
Boeing MD-95 in June 1999.
Antonov An-70 has its
public debut at show
THE KIEV Aviant plant in Ukraine
has started to raise funds
to finance a commercial
version of the Antonov
An-70 four-propfan
military transport, the ...
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 ...ILITARY AIRCRAFT CENSUS
Antonov An-70
Non-NATO Europe
An-70
An-70
Non-NATO Europe
Antonov An-70
Antononv An-72/74 Coaler
Ukraine
Russia
total
total
Latin America & the Caribbean
An-74 Coaler Peru
Latin America &...
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 ...turboshaft family.
pre
PT6A-27 681 149 1.57 0.48 Turboprop. Pilatus PC-6
PT6A-60A 1,051 216 1.84 0.48 8.5 Turboprop. Pilatus PC-9 & PZK Orlik
PROGRESS
Despite the severe setbacks suffered by the Antonov An-70 programme with its accidents, the Zaporozhye-based Progress MKB (design bureau) remains confi
dent in the future of the airlifter and in the market for its self-funded D-2 7 contra-rota...
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 ...latus PC-6
Turboprop. Pilatus PC-9 and P2K Orlik
Turboshafl. Z-10 medium helicopter/re-engined
Bell UH-1 H Huey
Turboshaft
Turboshaft. Euromil Mi-38
Plans are in hand to increase funding of the Antonov An-70 programme and its
Zaporozhye-based Progress MKB self-funded D-27 contra-rotating propfan engine.
Motor-Sich has committed to deliver seven of the engines during 2002. The first
units,...
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 ...y
ofdefence.
The German Government,
which is trying to achieve
significant cuts in defence spend
ing, has yet to decide between
acquiring the A400M and a west
ernised version of the Ukrainian
Antonov An-70 known as the An-
7X. The UK, France, Italy,
Belgium, Spain and Turkey are also
A400Ms could be dropping in on a joint European transport force
looking at the A400M and US
products su...
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 ... 5,500lb-thrust engine - a 9,250lb AI-222-UVT, and a slightly
less powerful "medium afterburning" version, the -25KFK. Depite the limited pro
duction of D-27 contra-rotating propfans for a batch of Antonov An-70s for the
Ukrainian air force, the long-term prospects for the troubled programme look
gloomy. The Russian air force's latest review indicated a preference for the
Tupolev Tu-330 over ...
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 ...kraine is trying to
vin over Western
Europe with an
mproved An-70
MDREW DOYLE/MUNICH
PHOTOGRAPHS/MARK WAGNER
CHEDULED TO APPEAR at Paris, the
Antonov An-70 is competing for the
European common medium transport air
craft requirement, for which it is now
aown as die An-7X.
The German Government tasked Daimler-
i hrysler Aerospace (Dasa) w...
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 ... nears an end
DOUGLAS BARRIE/LONDON
JULIAN MOXON/PARIS
EUROPEAN Future Large Aircraft (FLA) partners are to
meet early next month to discuss
the outcome of a critical study into
considering the Antonov An-70 as
an FLA candidate.
The study, which is widely
expected to reject the An-70 as a
serious contender, is almost certain
to plunge die FLA into further tur
moil, say programme source...
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 ...MRMAM AEROSPACE
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Aermacchi MB339
Airbus A330-222
Airbus A340* Alenia G222
Antonov An-70"
Antonov An-74
Bell 407
Bell 412 HP
Bell 430
Bell AH IWSuperCobra
Bell BB609 (mock-up)
BellUH-IDHuey'
Boeing 747-400
Boeing AH-64A Apache
Boeing C-17 Globemasler III'
Boeing C...
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 ...04
Valmet L-90 TP Redigo
Vickers Vimy
Westland Lynx Mk9
The Breiding team
CAP 231
Yak-54
Yak-55
Extra 300S
Extra 300
Su-26
Su-31
The following are expected but have
yet to be confirmed:
Antonov An-70
Armscor/Atlas Harvard
Avro International RJ85
Beechcraft Baron A3 6/F3 3
Beechcraft Bonanza A36/F
Beechcraft King Air C90SE
Beechcraft King Air 3 50
Beechcraft Beechjet400A
Bell ...
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 ...0
D-18T >*
D-18T
D-27/27F
D-30
5,1600
14,986
D-36-1/1A/2A/3A/4A/5A 14,337
o-436 9HHHHHHM
D-436 16,539
D-436-T1/TP/TM 16,900
13,422
Turbofan - Antonov An-124, An-225
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Propfan - Antonov An-70, An-70T and An-180
Turbofan - Tupolev Tu-134
Turbofan - Antonov An-74T-300
Turbofan - D-436K Antonov An-72, An74, Yakovlev Yak-42, D-437T, Tupolev Tu-334;
Turbofan - Tupolev Tu-334-1...
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 ... An-12, llyushin IIL-18-18V, II-20 and IL-22
Turbofan - Tupolev Tu-324, Yakovlev Yak-48
Turboprop - Antonov An-24/26, An-30
Turbofan - Yakovlev Yak-40
Turbofan - Antonov An-124, An-225
Propfan - Antonov An-70, An-180
Turbofan - Tupolev Tu-134
Turbofan - Antonov An-72, Antonov An-74T-300, Yakovlev Yak-42
Turbofan - Antonov An-72, Yakovlev Yak 42M, Tupolev Tu-334
Turbofan - Tupolev Tu-334, ...
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Notes/Description (inc submodel) Application
Turbofan - Tupolev Tu-324
Turboprop - Antonov An-24,An-26
Turbofan- Yak-40
Turbofan - Antonov An-124, An-225
Propfan - Antonov An-70, An-180
Turbofan - Tupolev Tu-134
Turbofan - Antonov An-74T-300
Turbofan - D-436K Antonov An-72, An74, Yakovlev Yak-42/42M, D-437T, Tupolev Tu-334;
Turbofan - Tupolev Tu-334-100, Be-...
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 ...(Above) A indications that the country's banking sec-
cockpit mock- tor, badly hit by the August 1998 eco-
up of a nomic crisis, has recovered and amassed
MiG-29 Sniper, considerable cash resources. ...
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