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a chance for companies to show off innovative concepts of business minute by their old bird and for us to find out what's changing in the world of russia and china. this year's show was the biggest bash raising the high standards set in years past the capital cities crocus expo center over one hundred sixty companies that manufacture and design fly sell in supply helicopters in there parts from sixteen countries not to be outdone by 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 russia is a playground where the machines we mostly hear overhead come down to earth from teetering with twenty models to trying out flight simulators to investigating new avionics outputs to high flying technology was all within reach i took a check on

a ride in the farcical one seat from but only as opting instead for an x. box connect tour of the latest watching the iraqi chemical. play pilot for a few new friends only to find out the actual keys to the sleek swiss business class air taxi are just a bit out of my price range no amount of wheeling and dealing would get 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 could even be said for the massive conglomerate russian helicopters on the scene for less than half a decade but among its many daughter companies because on a helicopter factory is one place where innovative ideas have long been taking flight. this name is because on. complex has long been the main production site of the most prolific helicopter in history the m.i. eight we get to tag along first see

a flight during our visit where test pilots showed up not just that picturesque a sodger russian monasteries with the agility it's made the mit eight and it's in my seventeen export version the workhorse of helicopter fleets no world over. the way it's a profile scale modernization program is underway for the seventeen v five. 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 seventeen modifications and to famous flexibility of their predecessors over eleven thousand of which have been produced over close to half a century and even before this family took flight because on plan to help launch the first ever serial production of soviet helicopters the first flock of flying machines was dubbed m i born after designer me. winning the approval of joseph

stalin and with a great fanfare at the nine hundred fifty one to sion air show 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 lines approach like just maybe three months of labor but with new equipment that's now in place fresh frames take roughly a week the entire swashplate assembly totals over a dozen parts and 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 there earlier

models in some eighty countries well that's certainly good business the factory has recently branched out into even bigger endeavors. when you're more new we reached a point where we realized the need to expand our product. line of helicopters the choice of the new helicopters size was no accident on the 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 in the kilo 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 seventy two the because then helicopter factory joined a club of russian designers are just like any new project or i doubt a string of obstacles to overcome to turning the design into reality nonetheless those difficulties were resolved one after the other and in late two thousand and

four when you and sat received its transport helicopter certificate. not only was the ansett the first round 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 and delayed the encephalon through prototype and test production at an impressive pace the basic layout of the new bird is exactly its genius because on design bureau had a history of russian helicopters they 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 seven a man sat comes from a touch of word that describes the design concept it means. convenient these days it's common to talk about the products price quality ratio. we mean the set of

options for our customers and we wanted to make this indicator as close as possible to the ideal dnssec can be converted into a multitude of modification tended for the most common shopper uses between controlled trainer model and for those just learning to fly medics are offered the life support systems of the flying ambulance the basic transport model can hold nine passengers or. loads and a v.i.p. addition makes jumping for the select few. twenty first century integrated flight control technology makes the incept marketable on the international stage it's the first civilian helicopter with digital channels to control pitch roll heading an attitude backed up by quadruple redundant sensors and actuators to ensure ideal maneuverability under virtually all conditions. with their first from scratch series 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 project partners the improved second test model of the m i thirty you made this first flight last december because on factory is joined on the project by the legendary. thirty eight is a multi-purpose medium transport helicopter designed to update its mit and my seventeen 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 seventeen miles capable of carrying exteriors. go up to seven thousand philos then my 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 hell of a crocus center had ready for hell russian participants and also gas with their own traffic beating 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 the way to the future glass cockpit is the somewhat deceptive term used to describe the modern make over increasingly applied to the pilot's control thing only new aircraft in place of the old in a lot of bells and gauges a board of digital displays present all the vital aviation instrumentation. we've integrated multiple positioning a number geishas systems used because it also has some advanced features such as automatic dependence or valence broadcast and satellite guidance for both precision and precision finalising approaches. it's akin to the enhanced ground proximity

warning system which is already been tested on a range of early emeline all those eurocopter. the feedback from the cruise has been very positive they say it really helps prevent controlled flight into terrain accidents one standout aspect of this system is not a database of all flight hazards in russia that's a unique feature for this class of equipment. the emily 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 clear most t.v. seven one seventeen the. new capacities does the second version with a cream of engine have. the technical features of the two engines very similar but even with bush i see a great advantage in that the new engine has been developed in russia. it also puts out more power to a cold while generally consuming less fuel. as an aston system which allows an

auxiliary power units are being sold on board the helicopter which precipitates all field landing and takeoff but the biggest bonus of having two engine times creased ability to meet the needs of a customer. which no aircraft is going anywhere without lift and a helicopter that's all about the rotor blades the m.i. thirty eight can tip the scales with takeoff weight over fifteen thousand kilograms so it's equipped with six rotor blades to give it adequately power on early helicopters materials like the laminated wood and even fabric were used later giving way to steel and aluminum structures as in many other components modern burger plates all for improved performance after a shift to composite materials like fiberglass the blade core is still formed by a lightweight aluminum honeycomb structure that expanded cords affixed to a frame with a special and he said to create panels these panels are they covered with an outer layer of the composite materials in the sandwich construction the further the panel

serb ranged along the backbone of the future helicopter blade what's called a spar or laws around at 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 of the blade the special glue. it's the mit thirty eight uses are the best the industry has to offer. what's unique in our blade production is the degree of automation but 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 which. we're 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 well rubble to rotting or corroding but that means our 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. 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 plates used on a regular m i eight helicopter was a full extra ton of lift. so if your typical m.i.a. to compare a load of three thousand kalos and you install these plates and without any change in engine power you can add on an additional one thousand kilos and still take off is a great example of how innovations are having a qualitative practical impact on performance you know what's. right isn't that young the hell of russia like those innovations were on display this month when the mule factory posted the first open press quite to show off the new tests model full scale production may take until twenty fifteen for them might there be 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 the

dated footage may look a 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 and a helicopter. well that stands out. the first russian helicopter that was able to take off successfully. plus it's basically become the prototype for ninety five percent of the helicopters that have been designed in the world ever since. a single rotor model with a 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. the italian machine before it could barely reach the roof of a five story building chiyo mickens helicopter flew as high as today's tallest skyscrapers but with to secrecy that surrounded his work at the central aero

hydrodynamic institute sunday the soviet record went long unrecognized despite increasing agreement on the rotor and 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 but the foundation of an industry and in really. today's modern aircraft are under careful control a far cry from the primitive machines that made the first big aviation breakthrough we traded in the limited manual systems for gyroscope orientation technology. for those 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 pushing the company into lots is at the forefront of the industry it's making this both possible and economical what. we we took

the most interesting thing which is a vibration gyroscope in made it extremely inexpensive. were made it's through. changing the type of material that we used in the shape in effect. material well in the labs is far from the only company that seized on the opportunity to produce cheaply what was once almost pretty expensive technology they're making breakthroughs in simplifying the structure of their coriolis vibrating gyros. seanie 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 it is cylindrical rather than hemisphere shape. these devices were stance extreme with high level of truck. which stands very high level

of vibrations and gamma doesn't afraid of radiation doesn't afraid you know it doesn't care about a lot of different electromagnetic waves as long as they're trying to protect the ones quality gyroscopes have been produced the range of potential uses is ever expanding in a lab c.v. g.'s can be used to orient all kinds of the aircraft in space and 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 key sensors allow for the calculation of a moving objects angular velocity and then we integrate these signals and determine the rotation angle. i can demonstrate it when i ask you to heading reference system but as i rotate this device it determines. integrates it and determines the

altitude angle. analysis has shown that maximally accurate compact and energy efficient as it you'd systems in the highest a month and so that's the market segment and our labs has ended. up on 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 tax system the constituent parts microelectronics ceramics sensors and resonators are all tiny and sensitive in the labs is 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. braking to be demanding sector of inertial navigation systems for aircraft to

attain unprecedented. can be used. three systems stabilization. in nature the heading next generation system which should be coming out in about one year from. your hyper station one hundred degree point it can be used. when you don't have any. reference. specially when you do not see the ground. offices in moscow and. they already have. continents and if the train continues.

our shared space is increasingly crowded with flying machines of all shapes and sizes and. the exhibition without any problems. needed. to keep the skies safe. that's a top priority task for the. institute for aviation systems thankfully communication and data transmission technology is developed as the demands on air space have intensified and the team has an advance 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 affected far more often and not be occasional accident or a close call in the skies or on the runways points out the ever present potential for human error new systems hoping for the reduce the danger. we're talking about

is called automatic dependence surveillance broadcast. this is quite a promising developing field supported by the international civil aviation organization. that the u.s. is planning to make such as is demanded by twenty twenty. europe projects implementation in the same span the same time frame has also been proposed for russia this means in the future aircraft the system will simply not be granted permission. so what's the technology that will allow us to move away from the familiar radar radio combo satellite navigation tracking systems like g.p.s. 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 their 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 their bottom lines since the american protocol requires only. one way data transmission equipment this is not a full fledged system it's effectively just a replacement for radar it is a much needed and useful. efficient step in the right direction he expensive radar will be replaced with relatively uncomplicated base stations our video for system paints a totally different picture has the ability not just to receive information on the ground and also simultaneously send aircraft the information on board to regulate without input from air traffic control systems this technology has already been developed the hardware exists in the our team alone has completed dozens hundreds of flights using this equipment and it's proven very effective you've missed. this month perhaps the most ambitious public presentation of the ghostly s. designed a.t.'s be solution to date five aircraft involved included not just

traditional man vessels but also unmanned drones an important new contender for space in the crowded clouds. in the future an air traffic controller will monitor both amount their craft 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 on monday aircraft. they'll be carrying out their work just like regular pilots unable to help on that the only difference being which they're on the ground. and to choose an airfield outside of st petersburg the pilots to carefully study the flight plan for a vehicle the two mit choppers a lightweight motor glider and prime sauces midsized are to hate east with the smaller russian companies going southbound shortly thereafter as in normal civil aviation a three minute craft each flight in different because they needed altitude distorting

the southbound sulla however on the same plane the plane calls for a point of intersection on the southern side of a rectangular space with a drone flying eastwards head on it the other four aircraft the a.t.'s speech system should help the drone operators alter their course was also avoiding a catastrophic collision with a man. aircraft occupying higher altitude layers and with their missions laid out in plain russian the pilots were left to pseudocode and strategize additional intrigue was added to the mix by an uninvited guest a stiff wind blowing north to south closer to sort of a dim view of the page of google and if the show was the mystical to the local. 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 the test pilots quickly flew out of visual contact but their movement and relative positioning was all constantly communicated to the airfields e.s.p. based ation the ground based drone operators fortunately had more than enough information to effectively avoid any collision. as everything went exactly according to plan c. of all of the aircraft were able to track each other in his response or was able to monitor all the aircraft perfectly so they did it just as well as the old sawyer show there are going to the focus confirms that the technology is absolutely functional up the totally legitimate is plenty international civil aviation standards now the task is to lobby for its full scale implementation is that he goes niehaus 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 choppers that helo russia had been flown it 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 ideas to conquer the traffic jam in the sky as. the high tech helicopter industry is just starting to take off we're already at a time this much throwing us for more on the next technology update until then enjoy the raw.

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