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1989
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TUSHINO SHOW REVIEW INSIDE YAKOVLEV'S V/STOL FORGER Top left The Yafeovlev Yak-38 Forger B's cockpit has become extremely cluttered try the addition of several instruments throughout the aircraft's service. The dial at top left indicates yaw; on the right a standby compass and "TACAN" underwrite the naval pilot's need to find the ship again; and the centre is taken up by the stadiametric ranging and sight parameter setting instrumentation. Top right The extensive wiring bundles visible through the quarter-light indicate the instrument add-ons. Above left The underside looking aft shows the lift- improvement-device-type strakes and what appears to be a rough surface, possibly the carrier's non-slip deck surfacing melted off by the lift jets and thrown on to the underside. Above centre The main engine's starboard vectoring nozzle; in the cockpit a gate arrangement links the throttle/nozzle lever and limits the nozzle lever's movement according to throttle setting. Above right The rear boom with puffer jet exhausts and radar warning receiver radome. helicopter, dubbed Hokum by NATO, is being flight tested. On show was a Ka-25 shipborne helicopter, and its successor in Soviet naval service, the Ka-27, was displayed in infantry assault transport, military utility, and Ka-32 civil utility versions. Kamov's latest Ka-126 single- turbine utility helicopter made its debut at Frunze. The two-seat helicopter is a re-engined version of the elderly piston-powered Ka-26, with existing aircraft to be converted in Romania by ICA. The Mil helicopter design bureau also had a strong pres ence, with a prototype Mi-28 combat helicopter flying at Tushino. This differed from the aircraft displayed at Paris in having a three-blade tail rotor and "straight-through" engine exhaust infrared suppressors. At Frunze, Mil displayed a heavily armed Mi-8 gunship helicopter with armour plates mounted either side of the cock pit and fuselage-mounted chaff/ flare dispensers; an Mi-14 land- based naval helicopter; a late- model Mi-24 combat helicopter armed with fuselage-mounted twin 23mm cannon; and an Mi-26 heavylift transport heli copter, again with fuselage- mounted chaff/flare dispensers. A surprise for the Soviet visitors to Frunze was the Yakovlev Yak-38 naval V/STOL fighter which apparently has not been shown publicly before. (The last such event was the Domede- dovo Air Show of 1967, when the Soviets unveiled the MiG-23, MiG-25, Su-17, and the Yak-36 experimental V/STOL aircraft from which the Yak-38 is derived.) • SOVIET NEWS IN BRIEF YAK MILK Yak staff are designing dried- milk packaging machinery and Mil staff textile processing plant under a Government-inspired diversification plan. "NO SU-27 CRASH" There have been 'no crashes of the Sukhoi Su-27 due to design or manufacturing faults, according to the fighter design bureau. MI-28 VARIATIONS. Mil says that there wilj^ulti- mately be at least six variants of the Mi-28 combat helicopter including versions with night- vision systems and anti-missile defences. MIL TURNED DOWN The Soviet army has turned down an offer to operate the Mil Mi-34 piston-engined light helicopter. There are conflict ing reports on whether the Soviet Union or another War saw Pact country will build it. WESTERN APPROACHES Aviaexport received a number of proposals at the Paris Air Show for the use of Western equipment in Soviet aircraft, and talks are continuing. AIRSHIP UPLIFTED Aeroflot is planning to start an airship service as development of a prototype continues, according to Soviet officials. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 9 September 1989 33
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