Air show in France showed force and weakness of RF aviation
Actuality June, 2007

Civil aviation fully dominated in Parisian sky. The creators of perspective passenger airplanes are not overmodest in names today. RF liner is named “super airplane -100″. Americans named a new air giant “Boeing-787″ the “liner of dream”. Maybe, it is no mere chance, because money beginning to work at the market of civil airplanes differs with supersums, about which it is possible only to dream. The “Erbas Company” declared that for the first three days of work of the show it sold the airplanes for an astronomic sum of $62 billion. Russian airlines also bought the European air-buses.

That participation in exhibitions like Le Burzhe is very important for Russia, because allows to feel the pulse of world aircraft building, watch tendencies, draw certain conclusions. According to the head of Russian industry, during the last ten years domestic aerospace industry made a great forward step. In particular, at last shows we participated disjoined and faded, but now consolidated and very bright.

Consolidation is really attained, and as for brightness it is possible to argue. In days gone by Russia was conspicuous by unique airplanes, by wonderful helicopters and shocked public by advanced aerobatics of the Russian aces. This time only one MIG-29М OVT flie in Le Burzhe. This just shows the perfunctory approach to organization of exhibition activity.

A new innovative policy and concern for the development of high technologies became almost the base of domestic economy. And it is offensive, that many prominent achievements of RF technologists and scientist not having analogues in the world are represented barely visibly at the snow. But exactly the Russian scientists now decide the major technological task – complete calculation of airplane resiliency. Only in CASI (the name of construction department) they were able to rate how with the help nanotechnologies to take resistance of air current for all aircrafts to the absolute minimum. Only in CASI rated and created new types of steering and bearing screws for helicopters, that promotes their reliability in times and multiplies the actual load at the economy of fuel. These indeed revolutionary breakthroughs could cause furor in Le Burzhe, but put up a poor show.

The tendency of more wide integration of the Russian enterprises with foreign companies becomes dominant. In Europe very large interest to the joint projects is shown by the groups of companies. “Boeing” becomes more dynamic having understood, that success at the Russian market can be well-to-do only due to joint production. Italy also searches new ways of integration with RF aircraft building companies.

In quality of air force Russia is at the level of the best world achievements, and in parts surpasses. As for military cargo aviation it hardly but saves some positions. But in the civil sector of aircraft building, it must be admitted that lag is catastrophic. Meantime the fixed assets are today exactly at the market of civil airplanes.