In Russia, planes fly

[rouxroux]

all the way to the crash site. Sad to read this today, not the way to impress potential buyers:

My Way News - Russian plane with 50 aboard missing in Indonesia

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, that is not going to make the sales manager's job easy.

[EarlyPorsche]

Maybe the Russians should just stop making planes. Yeah I think they should. How about sticking to other industries. Russian planes are just far too accident prone to be on the market. The Tupelev is another example.

[kach22i]

My Way News Photo - Indonesia Russian Plane

Rear Marshal Daryatmo, chief of the national search and rescue agency, said several diplomats from the Russian Embassy, potential buyers from major Indonesian airlines and journalists were on board what was supposed to be a 50-minute demonstration flight - the second of the day.

It's a handsome plane, but losing your potential clients is going to be hard to recover from.

Just makes me shutter.

Sukhoi Superjet: Great Expectations
http://www.flightglobal.com/Features/sukhoi-superjet/images-and-cutaway/



http://superjet100.blogspot.com/

The Sukhoi Superjet 100 is a modern, regional jet in the 75- to 95-seat category. The Superjet 100 will be produced by Russian aerospace firm Sukhoi's civil division, of which Finmeccanica of Italy owns 25%.[The jet airliner is being developed in collaboration with Finmeccanica subsidiary Alenia Aeronautica. The Italian design group Pinifarina will design optional interiors, and in 2007 Alenia Aeronautica and Sukhoi Holding formed SuperJet international, a joint venture (51% – Alenia Aeronautica, and 49% – Sukhoi Holding) based in Venice, responsible for marketing, sales and aircraft delivery in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Japan and Oceania as well as for worldwide logistic support for the Superjet 100.

[GH85Carrera]

I wonder if the Russians put a black box in a plane like that. It was not going to be used in the USA.

[cashflyer]

[rusnak]

^ I think I see nuts.

[WolfeMacleod]

Originally Posted by EarlyPorsche

Maybe the Russians should just stop making planes. Yeah I think they should. How about sticking to other industries.

Like vacuum tubes!

[Seahawk]

Just what the aviation world was pining for, a new Soviet Airliner.

Airline accident ratings

[beepbeep]

Well CFIT isn't necessarily caused by dodgy aeroplane, is it?

Quote:
The last RCOM was a pilot's request to descent from 3000 meteres to 2000 meteres in the area where mountains with height in excess of 2000 meters.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Just what the aviation world was pining for, a new Soviet Airliner.

Airline accident ratings

That is a great list!

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Yea, that is not going to make the sales manager's job easy.

But... I remember the Airbus A320 start; Crash A-320 Air France - YouTube

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by EarlyPorsche

Maybe the Russians should just stop making planes. Yeah I think they should. How about sticking to other industries. Russian planes are just far too accident prone to be on the market. The Tupelev is another example.

Originally Posted by WolfeMacleod

Like vacuum tubes!

I'm guessing you already know that, but when I join the Navy, the vacuum tube that we used to keep them in check came from them...

We can make fun of them but they were the first one in space and are the only one that presently travel to the International Space Station, yeah Canadian/American astronaut have to hitch a ride and China will probably be the next one...