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a chance for companies to show off innovative concepts big business and buy their own birds and for us to find out what's changing in the world of russia and china. this year's show was the biggest bash yet raising the high standards set in years past the capital cities crocus expo center over one hundred sixty companies that manufacture design fly sell and supply helicopters in their cars from sixteen countries. some of the most popular european american models flown out for the show virtually every russian company involved in chopper construction was on hand for industry insiders it's a place to exchange ideas business cards and maybe even bank account numbers to nail down the kinds of sales in contracts everyone came looking for the russia is a playground where the machines we mostly she comes down to earth from teetering with twenty models to trying out flight simulators to investigating new avionics outputs high flying technology was all within reach. on

a ride in one seat. opting instead for an expert's connect to work of the latest russian v.i.p. . i even got to play a pilot for a few new friends only to find out the actual keys to the sleek swiss business class taxi are just a bit out of my price range. wheeling and dealing with my editors to shell out the rubles to fly home in a new technology of the chopper. hello rush is full of new models new joint ventures and newcomers to both domestic and international markets they can even be said for the massive conglomerate russian helicopters on the scene for less than half a decade but among its many daughter companies helicopter factory is one place where innovative ideas have been taking flight. this new image because on. complex has long been the main production site of the most prolific helicopter in history the m.i.

eight we get sometimes a long first scene in flight during our visit where test pilots showed off not just that picturesque a sodger russian monasteries with the agility has made the m.i.a.'s and it's in my seventeen export version the workhorse of helicopter fleets no world over. it's a full scale modernization program is underway for the seventeen v five the latest generation of best selling helicopters. it will see the addition of a number of functions upgraded flight deck equipment improved technical specs and performance we played an important role in this program. budget and we just. knew in my sitting scene modifications and defeatist flexibility of their predecessors over eleven thousand of which had been produced over close to half a century and even before this family took flight because on plan helped launch the first ever serial production of soviet helicopters the first flock of flying machines was dubbed the m.i. born after designer u.k.

. winning the approval of joseph stalin with great fanfare and one nine hundred fifty one touche an airshow the much heralded helicopters were assigned because on the production like the helicopters themselves the assembly lines are undergoing a modern make over increase quality and efficiency a swashplate frame is a crucial part of the mechanics of helicopter maneuverability and the old ones are like us made three months of labor we new equipment that's now in place fresh frames take roughly a week the entire swashplate assembly totals over a dozen parts screws disks ball bearings and linkages the quality of which cannot be compromised without damaging overall aerodynamics that same rule applies to each of the hundreds of moving parts that make up the modern helicopter so overhauling equipment is more than cosmetic not every component is for a new aircraft they're pumping out the inevitable. replacements as well as new and improved parts to service the hundreds of customers still operating their earlier

models in some eighty countries well that's certainly good business the factory has recently brings down in the even bigger endeavors. open your mind of we reached a point where we realized the need to expand our product range of near pad to our line of helicopters the choice of the new helicopters size was no accident. market analysis showed the demand was most intense in the medium class helicopter segment those were the maximum takeoff weight in the three to three and a half hours and killer range. there was an element of risk involved since the khazan helicopter plant had practically no prior experience of designing its own helicopters at that time. but in one thousand nine hundred seven because then helicopter factory joined the club of russian designers are just like any new project i don't want a string of opticals to overcome turning the design into reality nonetheless those difficulties were resolved one after the other and in late two thousand and four

the new and south received its transport helicopter certificate. not only was the ansett the first ground of design experience for the khazan helicopter plant it was also the first start to finish russian aviation project after the breakup of the soviet union in a period where numerous quality concepts in the field were shelled in the late the and sat down through prototype and test production in an impressive pace the basic layout of the new bird is exactly it's genius because on design bureau had a history of russian helicopters it can be adapted for a broad spectrum of potential uses at their back they simply pushed a new young charted waters and a highly desirable lighter load meet in hit the jackpot. become further name and sound comes from a title word that describes the design concept it means. convenient these days it's common to talk about price quality ratio and if by quality we mean the set of

options for our customer we wanted to make this indicator as close as possible to the ideal dnssec can be converted into a multitude of modifications intended for the most common shopper usage in twenty controlled trainer models for those just learning to fly by medics are offered the life support systems of the flying in. their basic transport model can hold nine passengers or up to it loads and a v.i.p. addition makes puddle jumping for the select few. twenty first century integrated flight control technology makes the insan marketable on the international stage it's the first civilian helicopter with the digital channels to control pitch roll heading in attitude backed up by quadruple redundant sensors and actuators to ensure ideal maneuverability under virtually all conditions. with their first series ended at the factories spread out over a broader than ever model range and as part of the new russian helicopters group

since two thousand and seven they've been included in the forging of a flagship. helicopter factory is a collaborative project with the top players in russian and international avionics it's a new and improved family of choppers that's just starting to take flight the m i thirty eight despite years of uncertainty and controversy involving the project partners the improved second test model of the mit three you made this first flight last december because on factory is joined on the project by the legendary design. thirty eight is a multi-purpose medium transport helicopter designed to update its mit and my seventy ancestors it can hold up to five thousand kilograms of cargo in the spacious interior cabin an increase of fully a ton over early in my seven phenols capable of carrying exterior. go up to seven thousand euros they might thirty eight can cover an extended range of up to thirteen hundred kilometers if it's weak with extra fuel tanks for mules

headquarters just outside the russian capital it was a short flight over the hello pad crocus air had ready for hello russia participants and also gas with their own traffic getting transportation understandably to meet thirty eight had place of honor and all the media attention it entails with the manufacturers of the helicopters components all gathered here at the exhibition it's a great chance to climb inside and find out what makes me thirty that wave of the future class cockpit is the somewhat deceptive term used to describe the modern make over increasingly applied to the pilot's control pain only new aircraft in place of the old analog gals engages a board of digital displays present all the vital aviation instrumentation. we've integrated multiple positioning another gratian systems used because it also has some advanced features such as automatic dependence or valence broadcast and satellite guidance for both precision and snow imprecision final landing approaches . it's a clue to the enhanced ground proximity warning system which has already been tested

on a range of early m.r.i. models and bureau copter. the feedback from the cruise has been very positive they say it really helps prevent controlled flies into train accidents it won't stand out aspect of this is doom is that it runs a database of all flight hazards in russia that's a unique feature for this class of equipment. the emory thirty eight will also stand apart for being available with two different engines the first two prototypes have pratt and whitney canada p.w. one hundred motors while others will feature cleamons t.v. seven one seventeen the. new capacity says the second version of the cream of engine have. the technical features of the two engines a very similar but even with which i see a great advantage in that the new engine has been developed in russia yes it also puts out more power take hold while generally consuming less fuel. has

a nasty system which allows an auxiliary power unit to be installed on board the helicopter which facilitates all field landing and takeoff but the biggest bonus of having two engine times is the increased ability to meet the needs of the customer . which no aircraft is going anywhere without lift and a helicopter that's all about the rotor blades the emily thirty eight can tip the scales with takeoff weight over fifteen thousand kilograms so it's equipped with six rotor blades to give it adequate lift power on early helicopters materials like laminated wood and even fabric or use later giving way to steel and aluminum structures as in many other components modern boat or blades all for and who performance after a shift in composite materials life fiberglass the blade core is still formed by a lightweight aluminum honeycomb structure that expanded course affixed to a frame with a special adhesive to create panels these panels are being covered with an outer layer of the composite materials in

a sandwich construction further the panels are ranged along the backbone of the future helicopter blades what's called a spark or laws around that every step in the process new materials are being tested to increase the blades performance providing more lift for equivalent power or extending the working life from the blade the special glue. it's the m.i. thirty eight uses are the best the industry has to offer. what's unique in our blade production is the degree of automation that the main load bearing element that strengthens the blade and underpins its aerodynamics what we call a longer and is produced automatically by means of winding. with the only ones with this technology nobody else in the world produces composite constructions by means of this technology and it's well known that composite material is not vulnerable to rotting or corroding but that means blades can work for many years saving the customs money also in producing these blades we've implemented the latest

achievements of aviation science in the field of aerodynamics with jerry prior to putting these new blades on the m i thirty eight we tested them on r.m.i. eight years the meaningful breakthrough we discovered with these blades used on a regular m.i.a. helicopter was a full extra ton of lift. so if your typical and i eight can bear a load of three thousand kilos then you install these plates and without any change in engine power you can add on an additional one thousand kilos and still take off it's a great example of how innovations are having a qualitative practical impact on performance you know what. that is beyond a hell of russia like those innovations were on display this month when the mule factory hosted the first open press quite to show off the new test model to scale production may take until twenty fifty but then my thirty eight has come a long way and the first attempts at launching a rotary wing aircraft started in earnest in the first half of the last century

dated footage may look at bit goofy in hindsight but there was a decades long debate among designers before the ideal layout was settled on among the very first to get it right was alex it should be your new kit with his sunny one day helicopter. it stands out as. the first russian helicopter that was able to take go successfully. it's basically become the prototype for ninety five percent of the helicopters that have been designed in the world ever since. i think the rotor model with the tail rotor. and also it shattered the world altitude record in one hundred thirty two reaching six hundred five meters. one more than thirty times higher than the previous mark or with that. be a town machine before it could barely reach the roof of a five story building in telecom powerful as high as today's tallest skyscrapers to

secrecy that surrounded his work at the central arrow hydrodynamic institute sunday the soviet record went along and recognized despite increasing agreement on the road or in fuselage design not all the test flights were soaring success the meteoric rise of airplanes and the interruption of world war two delayed the wider application of pioneering ideas with the foundation of an industry and didn't really. today's modern aircraft are under careful control a far cry from the primitive machines that made the first big aviation great for as we traded in the limited manual systems for gyroscope orientations technology. is used to modern gadgets it may be hard to imagine a world with gyroscopes they found their way into everything from space ships to smartphones and they're also behind the balance and control systems of these toy helicopters bush and company in a lot is at the forefront of the industry it's making this both possible and

economical what. we say we took the most interesting technology which is a vibration cherished in made it extremely inexpensive. were made it's through. changing the type of material that are used in the shaping of. of the material and role in levs is far from the only company that seized on the opportunity to produce cheaply what was once almost pretty hip beautifully expensive technology they're making breakthroughs in simplifying the structure of their coriolis vibrating gyros. c.v. g.'s require just a fraction of the components needed for mechanical gyroscopes of equivalent precision. in the labs uses inexpensive metals in place of pricey cords and is perfect in a cylindrical rather than hemisphere shape. these devices

were stance extremely high level of truck. which stands very high level of vibrations and gamma doesn't afraid of radiation and doesn't afraid you know it doesn't care about a lot of different electromagnetic waves as long as the detroit is protected once quality gyroscopes have been produced a range of potential uses is it ever expanding in a lab c.g.s. can be used to orient all kinds of the aircraft in space remotely operated or autonomous lee operating vehicles like drones or robots navigation systems on a range of moving objects and even rotating in tennis drilling platforms. in all the systems gyroscope so the case sensors allow for the calculation of a moving objects angular velocity and then we integrate the signals and determine the rotation angle. i can demonstrate it without asking children heading reference system. as i rotate this device what it it determines. integrates

well and determines the attitude angle for your home market analysis has shown that maximally accurate compact and energy efficient as a cheap systems are in the highest a month and so that's the market segment and our labs has ended up with you know when you all of us particularly. they strive for new products in the labs understands how important the slightest changes can be killed when you know potentially new applications in with him new markets that's why so much energy and resources are expended on careful analysis of each new test system the constituent parts microelectronics ceramics sensors and resonators are all tiny and sensitive in alliances looking for a breakthrough particularly for the field of aviation coriolis vibrating or vibrating structure gyroscopes have generally been limited to lower end navigation devices so in order to break into the demanding sector of inertial navigation

systems for aircraft to attain unprecedented you know of jericho currently can be used in three systems stabilization it's the correction or the direction in nature and the heading next generation system which should be coming out in about one year from now will allow to have gyroscope appear hyper station one hundred seventy three and at that point it can be used on any given system reduce. inertial navigation system allows you to know when you don't have any other means of reference. if it's being lost. piece of equipment especially when you do not see the ground. offices in moscow and. they already have clients on four continents and if the current train continues. should get bigger as the gyroscopic systems get smaller. space is

increasingly crowded with flying machines and all shapes and sizes and all i can find the exhibition without any problems. need of new and improved smart tracking systems to keep the skies safe. that's a top priority task. this state. institute for aviation systems thankfully communication and data transmission technology is developed as the demands on air space have intensified and they go yes tede has an advanced set up for testing out ways to apply these expanding capabilities to the growing problem today's standard practices of air traffic control rely on technology long available in virtually every corner of the globe mostly ground to air radio contact and radar tracking systems and what we have in place is effective for more often and not be occasional close call in the skies or on the runways points out the ever present potential for human error new systems hope to further reduce the danger. we're

talking about is called automatic dependent surveillance broadcast. this is quite a promising developing field supported by the international civil aviation organization. the u.s. is planning to make such as is demanded by twenty twenty. projects implementation in the same span the same time frame has also been proposed for russia this means in the future aircraft without the system will simply not be granted permission. so what's the technology that will allow us to move away from the familiar braid or radio combo satellite navigation tracking systems like g.p.s. or now offer comprehensive coverage they can provide far more accurate information about aircraft location and motion and trajectory the biggest players in civil aircraft production boeing and airbus are already building the technology into new

models but like many airlines resisting the call to upgrade planes they may be undercutting the future system's effectiveness by watching the bottom line since the protocol requires only a.t.'s be one way data transmission equipment this is not a full fledged system it's effectively just a replacement for radars it is a much needed and useful. efficient step in the right direction and expensive radars will be replaced with relatively own complicated base stations our video for system paints a totally different picture this has the ability not just to receive information on the ground and also simultaneously send the aircraft the information on board directly without input from air traffic control systems this technology has already been developed the hardware exists in the r.c. malone has completed dozens hundreds of flights using this equipment and it's proven very effective here miss. this month so perhaps the most public presentation of it goes to me ask designed a.t.'s be solution today eight to five aircraft

involved included not just traditional man vessels but also unmanned drones an important new contender for space in the crowded klaus' woods in the future an air traffic controller will monitor both manned and unmanned aircraft in a fully standardized. controller won't see any difference between the two. pilots of monday aircraft will see each other's planes you lend any drones on their screens. that the same goes for operators of krauts. be carrying out their work just like regular pilots unable to perform that the only difference being there on the ground. and to choose an airfield outside of st petersburg pilots to carefully study the flight plan for a vehicle to m.i.a. choppers a lightweight motor glider and tons of his mid-sized are to hit east with a smaller drone developed by russian companies going south and shortly thereafter as in normal civil aviation the three man crack each flight

a different designated altitude eastbound distorting the southbound cell however on the same plane the plane calls for a point of intersection on the southern side of a rectangular space with the zala drone flying eastwards head on it the other. day t.s.p. system should help the drone operators alter their course while also avoiding a catastrophic collision with the main. aircraft occupying higher altitude layers with their missions laid out in the plain russian pilots would love to suit up and strategize additional intrigue was added to the mix by an uninvited guest a stiff wind blowing north to south. of the pool because if you continue to show up listen to the mystical to welcome. the other shows up. once the last of the germans had overcome the minor meteorological obstacle we had five birds not just in the sky but on everybody's

flight monitors to test pilots quickly flew out of visual contact but their movement in relative positioning was all constantly communicated to the airfields again s.p.v. station the ground based drone operators fortunately had more than enough information to effectively avoid any collision. as everything went exactly according to plan c. and all of the aircraft were able to track each other his response was able to monitor all the aircraft perfect so they did it just as well as they old sawyer going to the polls this confirms that the technology is absolutely functional totally legitimate plenty international civil aviation standards now the task is to lobby for its full scale implementation is that a gross neots in moscow the process of perfecting the system for all possible flying objects pushes on the capital is perhaps the clearest example of how a heavy load on current air traffic control systems can be most of the chopper said

hello russia had been flown in so we'd seen how hard it is to get the green light for a chopper mission over europe's biggest city the good news we're already embracing the ideas to conquer the traffic jam and the sky is. the high tech helicopter industry is just starting to make up we're already at a time just much throwing us for more on the next technology update and still better enjoy the right. people.

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