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1991
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ZHUK0V8KY AVIATION DAY The naval Sukhoi Su-27K Flanker B2, with movable fore- planes, folding wings, shortened tailcone, strengthened gear and a tailhook, heralds the Naval Air Force's entry into conven tional carrier operations The Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack showed off its landing configuralion with wings at 20° sweep and also in a high-speed pass at maximum (65°) sweep. In service, Blackjack has a poor readiness rate, in the order of only 30% The cluttered cockpit of the Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer C, which entered service in 1981, is equivalent to late 1960s Western cockpit technology. The latest generation of Soviet military aircraft has "glass" cockpits The M-70 Gzhel in mockup form is one of a rash of general-aviation proposals, but is there a market for private aircraft such as this in the USSR? Naval Flanker flies the flag The Moscow Aviation Institute's M-89 was described as having crop-dusting applications, but the payload would be uneconomically small BY MIKE GAINES IN MOSCOW PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK WAGNER The Soviet Union gave a brief glimpse on Aviation Day — the eve of the failed coup against Gorbachev — of aircraft under test and development at the Zhukovsky Flight Research Institute (LII), previously known as Ramenskoye. The show also included a small static display at the neighbouring Central Aero and Hydrodynamics Institute (TsAGI). Displayed in public for the first time was the Sukhoi Su-27K Flanker naval variant with active canards, shortened tailcone and arrestor hook. Sea trials of the navalised Flanker, its side-by-side two-seat trainer derivative and the navalised variants of the Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum and Su-25 Frogfoot continue. Tupolev's Tu-160 Blackjack made two passes, one in landing configuration and one a high-speed pass to display its fully-swept configuration to Western ob servers for the first time. LII test pilot Anatoly Kvotchur dem onstrated that the MiG-29 is able to execute a fast pitch-up akin to that of the famous Su-27 "cobra" pioneered by Sukhoi pilot Victor Pugachev. This manouvre has no combat appli cation, Flight International was told: it is performed only at air shows and only four test pilots are cleared to perform it. The Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) showed its M-89 ultralight biplane pusher, developed for sport flying and aerial survey. No details of the per formance or powerplant were made available. The MAI also displayed a mock-up of its M-70 Gzhel (named after a town near Moscow) — a six-to-eight seat turbo prop aircraft very similar in size and layout to the Piper Malibu. The M-70 has glass-cockpit instrumentation and a split cabin door for loading cargo. D FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 28 August - 3 September. 1991
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