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MAKS >97 SHOW REPORT Tupolev secures financing for a 50-seat regional jet THE RUSSIAN Government has agreed to help finance the development of a new Tupolev 50- seat regional jet, the Tu-324. Tupolev chief designer Valentin Dmitriev says that the decision was taken on 19 August, following a presentation on the project to the Russian economics minister. Dmi- triev says that Moscow has agreed to fund 50% of the development programme, with the remaining 50% financed by the government of Tatarstan, which will allocate oil-export revenues to the project. Tatarstan wants the programme to provide work for the Kazan pro duction plant, and the state gov ernment will also become the air craft's launch customer. One aircraft, which will be configured as a VIP transport, will be bought for Tatarstan's president. The aircraft has a conventional low-wing, T-tail, configuration, with two, rear-fuselage-mounted, General Electric CF34-3B1 or Progress Al-22 turbofans. Cockpit avionics will be supplied by AlliedSignal. There will be a choice of an auxiliary power-unit either from AlliedSignal or Sundstrand, and the undercarriage will be sup plied by A lessier-Dowty. Initial agreements have been signed with all the foreign suppli ers, savs Dmitriev, and he is confident that the first prototype aircraft will be rolled out in 1999, with Russian certification follow ing within two years. The aircraft will have a maxi mum take-off weight of 23.7t, a range with 50 passengers of 2,500km (l,350nm) and a cruise speed of 445kt(830km/h). Tupolev says that it believes the aircraft has export potential to markets such as China and the Middle East. The main market, however, will be on domestic route networks in the CIS, where Dmi triev says that theTu-3 24 will meet the demand to replace ageing Yakovlev Yak-40s, Antonov An-24s and Tupolev Tu-134s. The aircraft was originally intended to be a 70-seater, but the capacity was reduced to satisfy the demands of the Tatarstan Government. Dmitriev still hopes to develop a 70-seat stretched version of the basic Tu-324, with a modified wing and BMW Rolls-Royce BR710-48 turbofan engines. 3 Kazan chooses Canadian Marconi for Ansat K AZAN HELICOPTER Plant has chosen Canadian Marconi's integrated instrument display system (IIDS) for its ten- seat Ansat light multi-role heli copter. The aircraft is scheduled to have its maiden flight by the end of the year. The IIDS is to be integrated with the helicopter's two, 460kW (620hp) Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206 turboshaft engines, which were granted a Russian certificate- as was the company's PT6 turbo prop engine - on 20 August. P&WC is also starting a pro gramme to certificate the PVV127, which has been selected to power the planned Ilyushin 11-114-100 turboprop, in Russia. Canadian Marconi'sCMA-2055 IIDS is an engine-instrument/cau tion-warning system replacing in dividual electro-mechanical in struments and caution-warning/ light systems. The equipment is already in use on the Boeing (for merly McDonnell Douglas) Ex plorer helicopter, which has the same engines. The Canadian company will now First Ansat prototype was on display; its maiden flight is due by year-end supply Kazan with two sets of equip ment and support engineering. The first prototype Ansat heli copter - which was built for- ground testing only - was on dis play at the Moscow show. Ac cording to Kazan, flight tests will start on the second prototype, which is now in final assembly and should be ready for its maiden flight within three months. Certification of the helicopter to US Part 29 standards is expected to take about a year, and Kazan says that the type should be in series production within two years. The company expects to manufacture 20 Ansats in the first year of pro duction, and says that the first cus tomers will be domestic police, emergency medical services and border guard units. The helicopter has a maximum take-off weight of 3,300kg, with a maximum speed of 155kt (285km/h), and a range with 560kg fuel of 580km (310nm). The heli copter incorporates composite materials in much of its structure, and has fly-by-wire. 3 Kamov plans for first flight of its utility Ka-60 in early 1998 RUSSIAN helicopter designer Kamov is working towards a first flight of its Ka-60 military util ity helicopter by early 1998. The Ka-60 is the original mili tary design from which the Ka-62 civil helicopter has been derived. The Ka-60 is intended to super sede the Mil Mi-8 Hip as well as providing Russia's army aviation units with an advanced trainer. Although unveiled before the Ka-60, the Ka-62 betrays its lin eage, despite the growth in the take-off weight of the civil deriva tive, which required a larger fene- stron and the addition of a fifth rotor blade. Kamov officials say that the civil variant's take-off weight is some 700-800kg greater. Kamov says that, although the Russian defence ministry is provid ing some funding for the pro gramme, the Ka-60 could find an export customer before it enters Russian army service. A senior Iranian defence min istry delegation recently visited Kamov, now part of MAPO MiG, and is understood to have ex pressed a keen interest in both the Ka-60, and the Ka-52 two-seat all- weather attack variant of the Ka-50 Hokum. Kamov has so far completed two prototypes of the civil Ka-62, while one Ka-60 has been built. While the Ka-62 will have avionics which include systems sourced in the West, Kamov says that the Ka-60 will be "all-Russian". The Ka-60 will be built at the Ulan-Ude production site and Kamov suggests rliat it could enter service around 2000. The twin- engined Ka-60 will be capable of carrying an infantry squad or lift ing an underslung load weighing up to 2,750kg. As well as the military utility role, Kamov is examining missions such as those of electronic warfare and reconnaissance. The Ka-60 is likely to be fitted with a variant of the Phazotron Arbalest radar. The Arbalest is a dual-band radar, and is also associ ated with the Ka-52 two-seat Hokum. In the Ka-60, the radar will be mounted in the nose. J FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 27 August - 2 September 1997 13
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