Interview with Andrey Boginsky, General Director of PJSC Yakovlev - Deputy General Director of UAC for Civil Aviation.

On the eve of the New Year, Yuri Borisovich Slyusar, General Director of the United Aircraft Corporation, spoke about the results of the outgoing year and plans for the future.

On September 21, 2023, the inauguration of the new training center of PJSC Yakovlev (part of UAC PJSC of Rostec State Corporation) took place at the Skolkovo Innovation Center. The new simulator center is managed by a specially created subsidiary of PJSC Yakovlev - RATA Aviation Training Center, whose tasks include training of aviation personnel for domestically produced aircraft. Now Skolkovo has a full-flight simulator and an emergency rescue training simulator for the SSJ-100 aircraft, which were previously located at the Gromov Research Institute in Zhukovsky. As the participants of the solemn event noted, with the opening of the site in "Skolkovo", the ATC's throughput capacity will increase significantly, as well as its transportation accessibility will improve. And this is not all the advantages. As you know, this building previously housed simulators of Boeing, which "solemnly" left the country. In addition to a large number of rooms for theoretical training, by its technical characteristics and infrastructure the building can accommodate four full-flight simulators. But PJSC Yakovlev's plans are not limited to this, and they are very ambitious.

On August 22, 2023, the Russian Government approved amendments to the Comprehensive Development Program for the Russian aviation industry until 2030. The essence of the changes is in the forecast growth rates of Civil Aviation transportation volumes, aircraft requirements, as well as approval of the schedule of aircraft production and delivery. If the first two parameters are calculation-theoretical and their realizability is influenced by many external (political and macroeconomic) factors, the plans for the production of domestic airplanes and helicopters should be as realistic as possible. However, they can also be affected by various factors, but not so much by external factors as by intra-industry - technological ones. Often airplane and helicopter manufacturers face various kinds of problems, both technological and production. It is also not uncommon for the shift of production plans to the right to be influenced by the readiness of allied companies producing systems and units. And the most complicated in this series is undoubtedly the engine.

So, on August 29, 2023, an event took place in Komsomolsk-on-Amur that marked the beginning of a new era of domestic aircraft construction – the first flight of the experimental SJ-100 aircraft, which is being developed by PJSC Yakovlev (part of the Rostec State Corporation UAC). And these are not just beautiful pathos words. Today's event is a very important and long–awaited stage, to which our country has been moving for many years. Despite the fact that there is a lot of talk about import substitution of aircraft systems and assemblies, I would call it not a simple re-configuration, but a rebirth. Yes, that's right – in fact, a new plane is being born today.

This year, Russian civil aviation celebrates its 100th anniversary. And aviation science is even older. As you know, its founders in Russia were such great Russian scientists as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Nikolay Zhukovsky. In my opinion, only a country that has a scientific school, developers, a testing base and the entire production cycle of aircraft and engine building can call itself an aviation power. And all this is in Russia. And now try to answer the question: how many other countries in the world meet these requirements? One, two, three? And our scientific institutes are at the foundation of all this: TsAGI, CIAM, VIAM, Gromov Flight Research Institute, etc. We will talk about how today Russian science is working on the creation of modern Russian civil aircraft SSJ-NEW and MS-21 in this material on the example of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute – TsAGI.

At the Tenth NAIS 2023 Exhibition and Forum held at the beginning of February this year, Irkut Corporation (Part of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Rostec) presented to the forum participants a Single digital platform for supporting aircraft operation - RADIUS. This is a rather complex, multi-level and multi-vector system, the functionality of which in the future will largely depend on the quality of the manufacturer's provision of information and technical support to operators of domestic promising aircraft. Some elements of the system are already functioning, some are still in development. Realizing the importance and relevance of this development for the entire aviation industry of the country, we simply could not pass by this topic. However, we decided before presenting it to a wide audience of the AVIA.RU portal, first we ourselves understand this digital "web" in as much detail as possible, understand how it works, and only then tell you in more or less understandable language. That's what I'll try to do in this review.

On December 28, 2022, the Federal Air Transport Agency issued the Irkut Corporation (PJSC UAC, part of the Rostec State Corporation) approval of the main changes to the standard design of the MC-21 aircraft related to the installation of the Russian PD-14 engine, a wing made of composite materials of domestic production and expansion of the expected operating conditions of the MC-21 aircraft: operation at low negative temperatures. All test checks of the aircraft were carried out in accordance with Russian and international standards. And again, the question sounds from all sides: well, when? That's what we'll talk about.