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don't know. are welcome to the big picture. oh and welcome to technology update as the weather in moscow has already taken a turn for the worse the team and i pads are swimsuits and headed down to the blacks the city of galle and jake and is it just so happens for four days at the beginning of september the quiet resort town is transformed into the center of russian maritime aviation journalist and spectators alike flock to the knights so title international exhibition of hydro aviation probably the biggest crowd pleasers with acrobatic air shows from the country's top. the russian.

high speed. when they were. open exhibition. to the economy. head. to take part. however. there were some food. scientists and engineers together to discuss and probably argue about the latest trends in development. of international to make a splash. roughly one hundred twenty five pack. for about five hundred. practical.

and. two hundred. or better than ever. specialized search and rescue passenger transit as well as a. fire configuration. which really appreciate the raw power of it you want to check it out from the inside so with that in mind. organized. little test to show journos like me what it's like

onboard. knowing far from the. following warnings about what lay ahead needless to say i got a little nervous. six hundred. meters.

this heavy hitter for nearly ten years now but only recently did production of these planes be returned to their birth place. they were designed by the various aircraft company but for years were constructed out in siberia. in the wake of an industry wide restructuring they're now put together right down the road from where the plans were first drawn up in total nine of these firefighters have been put together and reportedly at least sixteen more are slated to come off the production line in the coming. months of the construction is its fly ability even though it's a big. it's still compares favorably to smaller passenger planes in terms of maneuverability and take up. special and corrosive materials have to be used on the engines to survive. despite the extra complication with the plane that deals with.

training. simulators. are to be prepared for the first time. to take.

the water.

of course aeronautical engineers didn't do it all by themselves advanced electronics have helped make pilots lives a lot easier inside the berry of two hundred cockpits in the past the pilots had to monitor and regulate everything manually and use an analog controls but no cockpits are lit up like a sports fanatics living room and game day to share the planes of the very latest kit very of turned to the institute of aircraft equipment. off the area two hundred complex was designed especially for this aircraft it includes six full color l.c.d. screens which display information about the flight navigation engines and control systems but we also have special firefighting equipment on this aircraft here you can see a display that provides information on reminds the pilots about the current status of water reservoirs of their senses that show how much water there is in each tank the exact amount of water that to be taken on board depends on how much fuel the

plane has in its tanks if the fuel tanks a full there's no way you can fill up all eight available water tanks the plane simply can't carry that much it tells him how much water he can scoop up based on the amount of fuel already. with a host of other nations reportedly interested in buying hundreds the developers of the institute of aircraft equipment have had to make modifications so that their products meet russian european standards and could also operate alongside ford made equipment but in addition to gain changes they've also been working on a host of new features that will make the very latest planes better than ever. in addition to improving the avionics we're also working to add new capabilities as well as expands the plane's functionality. we have now installed indicators on the windshield we've developed special thermal imaging and. meant there has been

seamlessly integrated with the other existing systems on the aircraft all these will help make the use of our plane more effective. even though eight of the nine ve to hundreds out there was i don't rush up given its capabilities in times of need the plane has been called into action by a host of other countries russia's emergency services and when to head to italy greece syria and israel but each successful demonstration of its flame dowsing clowe as more and more governments are taking a closer look at the russian made plain it could be just one minute of california needs for their annual summer wildfires.

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well they're made of instead very down here at water's edge where air shows are trapped thousands of spectators a day in reality many participants are here to improve their bottom line and a billion scattered throughout the territory companies are using this unique gathering to find new partners as well sign important deals. there are more than one hundred ninety participants. basically there was a product that could be incorporated into a plane or a ship there was a company promoting. the biggest players. to make sure that nobody forgot about the industry then there were some shaping future projects that. the business. child. on the way to china following a deal between helicopters of russia and technology. billion dollars worth of contracts were signed. by all the different designs and solutions that ship engineers have come up with over the years. seems to be the same thing just by

taking these different models. throughout history ship designers have usually had one goal in mind that is to make their craft go faster over they've always been limited by water resistance it seems of cool but the faster a ship goes the more stronger the forces of drag work against the vessel as a result of top speed is dependent on how much of the ship interacts with the water so as a rule of thumb submarines topped out at about fifty to sixty knots similarly traditional ships with part of the whole submerged can't do more than seventy five knots the key them to truly high speed ships lines in the holes. to achieve this there's been three main schools of thought i suppose which allow the whole to see above the water covered just above the surface on a pocket of air and ground effect there are more like planes that fly just meters above the water. and the term.

terms of how. many was designed to become the most popular and prevalent. but even before that. was busy developing one of the world's very first hovercraft . he built.

the. tradition. the city is home. to manufacturing. countries like russia the ship's place and.

from the traditional transport grid the bigger of these two she was forty eight and his crew just passenger hovercraft. this exact people across the two kilometer expanse of the full river in. the fleet here more than a thousand passengers a day to circumvent the reportedly traffic bridge in the area for those that operated there's just nothing quite like it. makes this vessel unique is its ability to operate all year round that is to say three hundred sixty five days a year. to traditional to displacing ships that can only operates when the water is free from ice also this vessel. characteristics in terms of the formants variability does not require expensive pieces of infrastructure like docking facilities. for themselves in many parts of the.

military. because that is far from the only company working. to make the company. for that reason the design engineers are trying to improve existing. fleet. they were. able to get this result because of calculations which helped us come up with the optimal parameters both in terms of stability and control of the vessel. first glance of a design six to the basics of traditional ships of this kind there's a turbo prop at the back. they create the forward thrust as well as the provide the

cushion underneath the most hovercraft pump the air through bags that wrap around the perimeter of the vessel as that escapes through vince at the bottom some flows out creating the momentum curtain while some flows under the whole building up the pressure needed to keep it hovering on the other hand as fitted to inflatable tubes along each side as well as along the length of the keel to form air trapping chambers underneath with suitable pressure air begins to escape under the tubes forcing the craft upwards the top two is divided into five sections to make sure the craft continues to function even in the case of puncture. unlike with other types. is ready to go at any moment of the banks in the skanks. that greatly improve its gliding characteristics it can move over water. with the same amount of. main edge over the more conventional kind of.

by maintaining contact with the surface we have achieved excellent maneuverability as well as steady motion. and. that's important because handling is a big deal for the craft that hover so there's minimal if any contact to ground. the is significantly trickier than in other types of transport. to deliver the captains onboard can effectively decrease the air pressure under the right and left sides independently which allows one side to drag and turn more sharply in that direction. higher above the water surface and there's another craft. floating effortlessly above the bay seaplane helps show that size doesn't always matter and that these small flyers also have a role to play in their time maybe a ship. but if this plane was designed to be operated. under any.

just like. in any case. too.

no shouting out there. or to be taking in the sights on board one of the air taking part in the show specifically. the. fleet. construction project. this particular. games. can do more than just. twenty six measures about thirty four meters long with one hundred twenty five cubic metres of cargo space inside to get that big body off the ground is driven by a pair of gas turbo shaft engine each crank out more than eleven thousand horsepower choppers designed to have five crew of four in the cockpit and one sling

operator in theory many configurations are possible this big hole can accommodate eighty fully equipped paratroopers or sixty beds for a large scale medical evacuation. and it was pretty much. two hundred.

twenty six.

different governments of. several different variations of the. put together here. first of all it's unique because it can lift. it's the world's most powerful had it called to have entered serial production it can lift up to twenty tons which is unique and something no other helicopter in the world can do it makes no sense to compare it to any foreign made ones like the chino for example and they're in

different weight classes ours is more powerful it can lift heavy loads and on top of that it's fuel efficient. because it's repeatedly called to transport on trains over the years it's told to run the. fuselage as well. like the way with the new variation the t two ready for production. the main difference from the original design is what we've managed to reach all of our time tested solutions and high level of reliability but we've also added innovative technologies of the twenty first century and. a new radio communication system and totally reworked electronics we also called the number of the crew members required while the m i twenty sixty which you can see behind me is operated by four crew members then you. can be piloted by only two and it will still be able to complete

all the same operations. choppers in the me twenty six family is a unique blamey which is also produced. to me. for safety's sake. warning system. used by many domestic and foreign companies.

to be. only time will tell. you. anyway. me is easy meat is. easy. to leave.

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