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CCCP-S 96-300 A3POCDAOT Ilyushin goes the distance Flight tests indicate that the new Ilyushin 11-96-300, a 300-seat wide-body, will meet its ambitious range target, according to Ilyushin's deputy chief designer, Igor Katyrev. A fuel-burn of six tonnes per hour recorded during flight at maximum weight suggests that the four-engined aircraft, whose closest Western equivalent is the still- to-fly 375-seat Airbus Industrie A340, will indeed carry its 40 tonnes maximum payload of passengers and cargo some 7,000km, and enable Soviet carrier Aeroflot to achieve a full passenger load of 300 on routes of up to 9,000km. The achievement must come as a relief to Ilyushin, whose first "long-range" widebody, the 350-seat 11-86 which flew in 1976, was seen as a failure in the West for apparently The Ilyushin 11-96-300 is shaping up as the Soviet Union's first genuine long-range widebody. Alan Postlethwaite reports from Moscow, on the Eastern Bloc's equivalent to the Airbus A340. being unable to meet range targets. Right or wrong, that perception must have hurt Ilyushin's reputation. Since its first flight last October the new 11-96-300, the Soviet Union's first fly-by-wire airliner, has reached Mach 0-84 and The fly-by-wire Ilyushin 11-96-300 will fly sectors of up to 9,000km with Aeroflot next year 11,000m altitude. With two more aircraft scheduled to join the flight-test programme this year, and two more due for ground tests, Katyrev is confident the type will receive domestic certification and be in service with Aeroflot by the end of next year. The Soviet state carrier plus airlines in Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia, are expected to take a total of at least 100 Il-96-300s, while talks with Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania might result in further orders, says the Ilyushin official. There have allegedly been talks on sales in the West with Guinness Peat Aviation of Shannon, and the aircraft is likely to be seen at the Paris Air Show next month, where Soviet trade body Aviaexport will be attempting to whip up interest in this new alternative to Western long-range wide- FLIGHTINTERNATIONAL, 20 May 1989 49
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