RUSSIA's SUPERSONIC AIRLINER TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATOR PRODUCTION IN 2023 TO ENTER

Reports in Russian State media indicate that a technology demonstrator for an upcoming Russian supersonic passenger aircraft will enter production in 2023. It will be constructed at Chaplygin Siberian Scientific Research Institute of Aviation (SibNIA), using the MiG-29 fighter jet as a basis.

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The plan was announced by the institute’s director Vladimir Barsuk at a press conference, Russian state news agency TASS reports. “Next year the work on a supersonic passenger aircraft is planned and the institute will take part in creating and testing technology demonstrators. This year it was formalised, the decision has now been taken and the contract is going to be signed next year,” Barsuk said. “A new fuselage is going to be used, a new wing, a wing with a reduced supersonic shockwave. Modern research allows us to compose the aircraft in such a way that the shockwave is substantially reduced.

SibNIA is going to conduct flight tests,” he added. According to TASS, Barsuk announced that work on the technology demonstrator is going to take two years and the demonstrator is going to be created on the basis of a light aircraft, namely the MiG-29.