Posted on 04/07/2009 11:54:34 AM PDT by pobeda1945
MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's new Superjet 100 airliner will be one of the big draws at Le Bourget 2009 when it makes its debut appearance in Paris, a top official of the major international air show said on Tuesday.
The 48th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget on June 15-21, which marks 100 years of technological innovation in aeronautics and space conquest, will be the first chance for most aviation enthusiasts to get a look at the new plane.
"The Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 airplane will be a genuine star at our anniversary air show, primarily because it serves as a perfect example of cooperation between Russia and European countries," Gilles Fournier, Le Bourget's managing director, told reporters in Moscow.
The Superjet 100 project is a family of medium-haul passenger aircraft developed by Russia's Sukhoi Civil Aircraft company in cooperation with U.S. and European aviation corporations, including Boeing, Snecma, Thales, Messier Dowty, Liebherr Aerospace and Honeywell.
The first Superjet 100 aircraft has already made one long-distance and 40 short-distance test flights, clocking over 100 flight hours. A total of four planes will take part in the certification program, which should be completed in the third quarter of 2009.
Sukhoi, part of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), plans to manufacture at least 700 Superjet 100s, and intends to sell 35% of them to North America, 25% to Europe, 10% to Latin America, and 7% to Russia and China.
The company earlier said it had about 100 solid orders for the Superjet 100 so far and planned to sign a number of new deals during the Le Bourget and MAKS air shows this year.
Sukhoi is expected to deliver the first Superjet 100 airliner to Russia's flagship carrier Aeroflot in December.
Soros will buy ‘em for JetBlue
Uh-oh...
Sweet looking bird. I don’t know if “looks great, flies great” applies to Soviet steel, though...
Didn’t the Rooskies ground their Mig-29 fleet recently?
They make some other stuff too.. Look out, Boeing and Gulfstream.
http://www.sukhoi.org/eng/planes/projects/
Probably not a bad investment.
If they are typical of Russian hardware they are probably pretty robust, and designed to be fixed by a 3rd world peasant sitting on a flat rock, and using a couple other rocks for tools.
Given that US carriers are migrating maintenance "off shore" as a cost savings measure...
Norm..which of Boeing’s and Airbus’s models does it compete with?
Looks like a 737 / a320 model , haven’t read specs on it .. it doesn’t look huge tho, or it could be my eyes. ;-)
Hope it doesn't perform the Siberian lawn dart maneuver.
Yeah, but the wheels-up landings are a bit much and the jetways don't go that low. /grin
Le Bourget? Lindy will still have the right-of-way, won’t he?
LOL..thanks..made my day
I’ve been inside their An-124 and Tu-95 and seen the quality Soviet workmanship. I wouldn’t dare fly one of their passenger jets.
Actually, it competes with them indirectly, by offering more alternatives in the overall commercial aviation industry. However, this model, competes directly with products made by Bombardier and Embraer. It is in a category typically known as "Regional Jets". China is currently flight testing the ARJ21 regional jet and Japan with the Misubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) will be have the rollout by early next decade.
The only airplane that I'm aware of that will compete directly with Boeing's 737 or Airbus' A320, is an aiplane recently announced by China Commercial Aircraft Corporation, called the C919. The last two digit signifies one a one class seating configuration of 190 passengers.
Bombardier recently announced the C-Series, which is bigger than the ARJ21, MRJ and the Sukhoi 100. However, it is about 50 seats shy of the 737 and A320 in the one class configuration (which is about 200 for both the 737 and A320). The expected rollout of the C-Series should be about 2013 or so. Only China Commercial Aircraft is launching a direct competitor to the 737 and A320, called the C919. The expected roll out is 2014 and delivery in 2016.
In the long run, I doubt Russia will produce a company that will compete directly with Boeing and Airbus. China has the most potential, despite the fact that they're currently running behind Russia in aerospace experience.
Thanks. after looking at it a bit more, they are pretty fair sized. nothing like a little competition.
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