is available in the move go into the joint the hotel rooms on the villas the gateway here to the grand imperial college the towards west coast girl until you can a little closer measure that you see don't need to go and most lawyers read this and the colonel was neutral as used to retreat. it's all cost now we are mostly this is all to see the week's top stories now the chorus of g eight leaders speak in unison to the man colonel gadhafi gave declaring his rule illegitimate russia sending its employed to libya as a media agencies far between the country's leader and that holds. the u.s. is pushing forward for that anti missile defense shield in europe strikes me a deal with prudent to deploy its fighter jets for a mosque a was the project made with the wall security upgrades. thousands are preparing to

take to belgrade streets to protest against a rescue general rough and loud it he's accused of killing thousands of muslims in the post in bor his detention calls anger among songs up some say the government is treating its people so when you're straight up. on the day of rage injunction the bloodshed after a brutal crackdown on piles of rounds of government protesters those days rallies that marked the culmination of a series of street demonstrations calling for president sarkozy pretty to step down . now we present a new russian helicopter is designed to say how the potential to school is all it's contestants technology is next.

hello and welcome to technology update this month marks the fourth annual with some way of the international helicopter industry here in moscow it's a chance for companies to show off innovative concept big business men to 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 a group whose expo center in over one hundred sixty companies did manufacturer design fly sell and supply helicopters in their parts from sixteen countries not to be outdone by some of the most popular european american models flown out to 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 sure 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 rain check on a ride in the fall of sixty one c. chiron counter from but only as opting instead for an extra ox connect tour of the latest russian v.i.p. cabin. i even got to play a pilot for a few new friends only to find out that 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 with my editors to shell out the rubles to fly home in the new technology of the chopper. hell russia is full of new models new joint ventures and newcomers to both domestic and international markets they could even be said to 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 new image has on. complex has long been the main production site of

the most prolific helicopter in history the m.i. eight we get sometimes along first see a flight during our visit where test pilots showed up 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. the way it's above full scale modernization program is underway for the seventeen v five with the latest generation of best selling helicopters. it will see the addition of a number of functions upgraded flight deck equipment improved technical specs on the performance we've played an important role in this program. but you didn't we just. knew in my seventeen modifications and two 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 unplanned helped launch

the first ever serial production of soviet helicopters the first flock of flying machines was dubbed am i born after designer me frail 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 line support i just meant three months of labor so 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 branched out in even bigger endeavors. but when you're more new we reached a point where we realized the need to expand our product range of notepad 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 with a maximum takeoff weight in the three to three and a half hours in kilo range. there was an element of risk involved since the khazan helicopter cloud has practically no prior experience of designing its own helicopters at that time. but in one nine hundred ninety seven because then helicopter factory joined a club of russian designers just like any new project there were

a string of obstacles to overcome turning the design into reality nonetheless those difficulties were resolved one after the other and in late two thousand and four and un sat received its transport helicopter certification. not only was the ansett the first ground of design experience for the cars on 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 end step ploughed 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 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. becomes the name on the sat comes from a tired old word that describes the design concept it means. convenient these days

and. we wanted to make this into. a dnssec can be converted into a multitude of modifications tended for the most common shopper usage in tween controlled trainer models for those just learning to fly medics are offered a life support systems of a flying into the basic transport model can hold nine passengers or. loads and the v.i.p.'s mission makes puddle jumping for the select few. twenty first century integrated flight control technology makes the insect marketable on the international stage it's the first civilian helicopter with digital channels to control pitch roll heading attitude backed up by quadruple redundant sensors and actuators to ensure ideal maneuverability under virtually all condition.

the factories spread out over a broader range and as part of the new russian helicopters group since two thousand and seven they've been included in the 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 just starting to take flight the m.r.i. thirty eight despite years of uncertainty and controversy involving the project partners the improved second test model of the mit made this first flight last december because factories joined on the project by the legendary. thirty eight is a multi-purpose medium transport helicopter designed to update its eight and my seventeen ancestors. five thousand kilograms of cargo in the spacious interior cabin and increase in fully a ton over early seventeen miles capable of carrying exterior. go up to seventy

thousand kilos then my thirty eight can cover an extended range of the thirteen hundred kilometers if it's a week with extra fuel tanks for mules headquarters just outside the russian capital it was a short flight over to help that crocus center had ready for hello russia participants and also gas with their own traffic beating transportation understandably to meet thirty eight at place of honor and all the media attention that 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 that a future class cockpit is the somewhat deceptive term used to describe the modern make over increasingly applied to the pilot's control panel in new aircraft in place of the old analog gauges abortive digital displays present all the vital aviation instrumentation. and. we've integrated multiple positioning another occasion systems it also has some advanced features such as automatic dependence or valence broadcast and satellite guidance for both decision and station final

landing approaches ok it's akin to the enhanced ground proximity warning system which is already been tested on a range of early m.r.i. models and the eurocopter. the feedback from the crew has been very positive and they say it really helps prevent controlled flight into train accidents but one standout aspect of this is them 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 clear most t.v. seven one seventeen the. new capacities does the second version of the claim of engine have. the technical features of the two engines are very similar but even with the if i see a great advantage in them the new engine has been developed in russia. it also puts

out more power to a cold while generally consuming less fuel. has a nasty system which allows an exhilarating power units being still don't 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 with lift and a helicopter that's all about the rotor blades in my 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 used later giving way to steel and aluminum structures as in many other components modern voter blades offer include performance after a shift to composite materials like fiberglass the blade core is still formed by a lightweight aluminum honeycomb structure and expanded course at fixed to

a frame with a special he said to create panels these panels are being covered with an outer layer of the composite materials in the sandwich construction further the panels are ranged along the backbone of the future helicopter blade what's called a spar or larger on 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 and the special day. 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 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 lines. 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 our blades can work for many

years saving the customer's money could be also in producing these blades that we've implemented the latest achievements of aviation science in the field of aerodynamics with garrett you know prior to putting these new blades on the m i thirty eight we tested them on r.m.i. eight the meaningful breakthrough we discovered with these blades used on a regular m.i.a. telescope that was a full extra ton of lift. so if your typical m.i.a. eight comparing load of three thousand kilos then you install these blades 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 that the young the hell of russia like those innovations were on display this month with the mule factory posted the first open press quite to show off the new test model full scale production may take until twenty fifteen 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 they didn't footage me look at big 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 kid with his sonny want to be a helicopter. this stands out as. the first russian helicopter that was able to take gold 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's shattered the world altitude record in one hundred thirty two reaching six hundred five meters. more than thirty times higher than the previous mark with. the italian machine before it could barely reach the roof of

a five story building. helicopter flew as high as today's tallest skyscrapers but with the 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 didn't 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. cruise used to modern gadgets it may be hard to imagine a world with scopes they found their way into everything from space ships to smartphones and they're also behind the balanced 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 we took the most interesting technology 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 a fog. all of this material and role in our lives 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 destruction of their coriolis vibrating gyros. c.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 doesn't afraid you know it doesn't care about a lot of different electromagnetic waves as long as electronics is protected once quality gyroscopes it in produced a 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 remotely operated or autonomous we operating vehicles like drones are robots never engage in systems on a range of moving objects and even rotating in tennis oil drilling platforms. in all the systems gyroscope so the king sensors allow for the calculation of a moving objects angular velocity and then we enter great these signals and determine the rotation angle. i can demonstrate it with acid change in heading

reference system. as i rotate this device what it it determines velocity integrates it and determines the attitude angle. market analysis has shown that maximally accurate compact and energy efficient attitude systems are in the highest a month and so that's the market segment and our labs has them that you know that when you love you are particularly. they strive for new products in the labs understands how important the slightest changes can be opening up potentially new applications and 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 his or ceramics sensors and resonators are all tiny and sensitive in a lab says 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 precision share a scorched earth with can be used for three systems stabilization it's the direction of the direction in the shuras the heading next generation system which should be coming out and about a year from now will allow to have gyroscope in your high percentage one hundred sixty degree and that point it can be used in an indication system or. allows you to know when you don't have any other means of reference. if it's being lost he's extremely important. especially when you do not see the ground. operates out of office is in moscow and shia but they already have clients on four continents and if the current trend continues should get bigger as the

gyroscopic systems get smaller. our shared space is increasingly crowded with flying machines of all shapes and sizes and while i can fly to so many chopper at the exhibition without any problems the bigger birds need a new and improved smart tracking systems to keep the skies safe. this is a top priority task for the specialists at moscow's. this state research. institute for aviation systems thankfully communication and data transmission take knology has developed as the demands on air space have intensified and the team 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 air radio contact and radar tracking systems what we have in place is affected far more often and not. in our 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 magic dependent surveillance broadcast. this is quite a promising you 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 with the system will simply not be granted . 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. are now offer a 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 that technology into new models but like many airlines resisting the call to upgrade planes they may be undercutting the future systems 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 useful. efficient step in the right direction and expensive will be replaced with relatively own complicated base stations. for system paints a totally different picture this has the ability not just to receive information on the ground and it would also simultaneously send aircraft the information on board here directly without input from air traffic control systems this technology has already been developed the hardware exists in that our team alone has completed dozens hundreds of flights using this equipment and it's proven very effective here in this. this month so perhaps the most ambitious public presentation of it goes

the s design eighty s p 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 class. in the future an air traffic controller will monitor both a manned and unmanned aircraft in a fully standardized. controller won't see any difference between the two. the pilots of manned aircraft will see each other's planes humans any drones on their screens. the same goes for operators of kraut. they'll be carrying out their work just like regular pilots and able to help on that the only difference being which they're on the ground welcome. to choosing airfield outside of st petersburg the pilots meant to carefully study the flight plan for a vehicle the two m.i.a. choppers a lightweight motor glider and found saucers midsized are to hate east with

a smaller drone developed by russian companies going south around shortly thereafter as in normal civil aviation the three man craft each fly in a different designated altitude. 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 eighty s b 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 plain russian the pilots were left to suit up and strategize additional intrigue was added to the mix by an uninvited guest a stiff wind blowing north to south. with a little to go before so it was before them and simple walking. the other shows up at. 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 a.t.'s speed base station to 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 it is the dispatcher was able to monitor all the aircraft perfectly. just as well as the old sawyer they're going to the cold this confirms that the technology is absolutely functional up that's totally legitimate by the international civil aviation standards now the task is to not be for its full scale implementation is that he draws me us in moscow the process of perfecting a system for all possible flying objects pushes on the capital is perhaps the

clearest example of how heavy the load on current air traffic control systems can be but most of the choppers that helo russia had been flown it so we've 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 skies. the high tech helicopter industry is just starting to take off we're already at a time for just what brought us for more on the next technology update and still bit enjoy the raw. data. hungry for the full scoop we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on r t.

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