The Ugly Duckling Il-Xnumxv
Since the first test flight of the IL-112, a certain amount of time has passed, which allowed both to look at what others are saying and talk to those who are directly related to flight. That is, with VASO employees.
But, first, I would like to ask an obvious such question to everyone who rushed to criticize the plane. And, actually, what did you expect?
Let's go in order. So, we are leaving on a certain time machine on 20 years ago, at the very beginning of the two thousandth, when the first work on the aircraft on paper began.
The path itself IL-112V was very difficult, however, something like that, out of the ordinary, in this storiesPerhaps, there was no, except for the intermediate final.
So, let's go.
2001 year. Beginning of R & D on the project IL-112В.
2004 year. The IL-112V aircraft project won the tender for the development of a light military transport aircraft conducted by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
2005 year. The media get the numbers from the Air Force, who say that the first IL-112 will rise into the air already in 2006, the installation batch will be released in 2007, and then, according to the LG, the Air Force will receive 2015 airplanes per year . As usual, hooray and all that.
2006 year. Funding is declining, the timing of R & D is constantly being transferred.
2009 year. VASO reports that in the year 2010 the first flight copy of the IL-112B will be ready.
2010 year. The Defense Ministry completely stops financing and offers the Ilyushin Design Bureau to independently raise money (almost a billion rubles) for the final assembly of prototypes.
2011 year. The Ministry of Defense officially refuses IL-112В in favor of An-140.
2013 year. At the end of December, the Main Committee of the Russian Air Force presented to the Minister of Defense S. Shoigu a justification for the resumption of the IL-112В project. Works have been resumed.
year 2014. OJSC "Aviation complex to them. S. V. Ilyushin "reports about the conclusion of a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the development of the military transport aircraft Il-112V.
2016 year. Aviastar-SP JSC proceeds with the preparation of the production and manufacture of the first parts for the prototype.
2017 year. At VASO began assembling the first instance of the aircraft.
2018 year. November 27 The 2018 of the year at VASO underwent the procedure of transmitting the first IL-112В flight model to the flight test station.
2019 year. 30 March 2019, the first flight of the IL-112V.
What can I say? In fact, 15 years spent on the construction and the first flight of the flight sample. Well, to be honest, we knew more long-term projects. But what happened next?
And then a wave of criticism began. And often not something that was unreasonable, but simply some cries of people who didn’t fit the VASO gun and didn’t even know how this plane was born. What throes of creativity.
And really, you can't call it otherwise. Today the concept of a labor feat somehow does not exist, I agree. However, the fact that in Voronezh there were people whose hands the plane was assembled and flew, is a feat by now. If only because for ten years, VASO was simply kicked from department to department, the salary of those who remained in the field was at the level of a cleaner in a minimarket, and there were no prospects at all.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense aircraft fleet slowly and steadily became disheartened. Moreover, since 2015, everything has gone by leaps and bounds. Yes, exactly when they quarreled with Ukraine and to serve all these ancient An-24, An-26, which were already dilapidated, there was no one and nothing. The production base of spare parts was closed for us.
The situation was completely unpleasant, the situation had to be changed.
Then the leaders of the Ministry of Defense did a stupid thing. When it came right up to the president, he was happily reported that it was okay, everything was under control. The OKB (now Aviation Complex) named after S. V. Ilyushin is working on a domestic aircraft on 100%. And this plane will fly into the sky in the summer of 2017.
Alas, it quickly became clear that rainbow reports are one thing, but the reality is often completely different. For throughout the entire 2017 of the year IL-112B, if it was something of itself, then it’s rather a set for construction, and a fairly incomplete one.
Plus, as the assembly began to turn out unpleasant things. For example, the initial overload of the aircraft is almost three tons. This, by the way, became known in the same 2017.
In parallel, problems with alignment were revealed. Moreover, both problems existed initially, that is, they were the fruits of design flaws. Nikolai Talikov, chief designer of the AK named after Ilyushin, explained such an unpleasant result by the fact that the new generation of designers turned out to be “weak”.
Is amazing? Not. Naturally. In terms of the training of designers, it’s more than sad in the country; it’s not a secret to anyone. Why potential aircraft designers don’t want to beg, I don’t know, but they don’t. And they go anywhere, but not to the design departments of aircraft companies, alas.
Did Alexey Rogozin, Director General of the AK Ilyushin AK know about this? They say that he knew. It was from 2017 that he knew, but he continued to make confident and encouraging reports. By myself. For which he was punished by the deprivation of all posts and posts. Right? Full
A rare case in the country, usually our officials can easily shoot down an airplane or drown a ship. But then the opposite happened; IL-112B shot down Rogozin. Completely Well, and God bless him, the main thing is that a knowledgeable and understanding specialist, and not an “effective” manager, will come to the place of the AK named after S. Ilyushin.
In general, aviation specialists, to whom it was possible to reach out, unanimously say one thing: IL-112В was originally a “crooked” project, which should not have taken off at all.
But when it began to smell real plantings and expulsions, the management of AK Ilyushin went on principle, formed a new team under the leadership of Bykov (God bless them of health and success in the future) and started to eliminate the flaws of the previous team of designers at a shock pace.
And what happened in March 2019, I repeat, by and large, this can be called a feat. Absolutely a failed project, which could become one of the symbols of the cut of the country and the same disappointment, suddenly took off.
Of course, not suddenly. Of course, the hellish efforts of the whole AK of Il'yushin, VASO as a whole and the Hero of Russia test-pilot Nikolai Kuimov in particular.
Well, a certain answer to all those who squealed and were unhappy that the plane would have to be “corrected” within a year. While there will be tests, corrections and corrections will be made. Already at the time of the first flight, it was possible to “remove” one ton of overload from three and work with reloading the tail section.
In total, it is planned to make about a hundred changes to the design.
Yes, yesterday (in March) IL-112В demonstrated that our design school has weakened. Very weak, very strong. But, fortunately, not critical. Otherwise, the plane would have remained on the ground, what a magician or soar at the helm.
And yes, this is the first military transport aircraft actually created in our country. Sorry, but there is a difference between building such a machine, really on 100% from domestic components, and assembling an imported designer of the “Superjet” type.
15 years - is it a lot or a little?
And it all depends on the result. It is clear that now the AK named after Ilyushin are waiting for dismissal and upheaval, but I hope that they will cope. And in a year our army will have a new transport plane.
The year is not so much. There is something to wait for.
But, first, I would like to ask an obvious such question to everyone who rushed to criticize the plane. And, actually, what did you expect?
Let's go in order. So, we are leaving on a certain time machine on 20 years ago, at the very beginning of the two thousandth, when the first work on the aircraft on paper began.
The path itself IL-112V was very difficult, however, something like that, out of the ordinary, in this storiesPerhaps, there was no, except for the intermediate final.
So, let's go.
2001 year. Beginning of R & D on the project IL-112В.
2004 year. The IL-112V aircraft project won the tender for the development of a light military transport aircraft conducted by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
2005 year. The media get the numbers from the Air Force, who say that the first IL-112 will rise into the air already in 2006, the installation batch will be released in 2007, and then, according to the LG, the Air Force will receive 2015 airplanes per year . As usual, hooray and all that.
2006 year. Funding is declining, the timing of R & D is constantly being transferred.
2009 year. VASO reports that in the year 2010 the first flight copy of the IL-112B will be ready.
2010 year. The Defense Ministry completely stops financing and offers the Ilyushin Design Bureau to independently raise money (almost a billion rubles) for the final assembly of prototypes.
2011 year. The Ministry of Defense officially refuses IL-112В in favor of An-140.
2013 year. At the end of December, the Main Committee of the Russian Air Force presented to the Minister of Defense S. Shoigu a justification for the resumption of the IL-112В project. Works have been resumed.
year 2014. OJSC "Aviation complex to them. S. V. Ilyushin "reports about the conclusion of a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the development of the military transport aircraft Il-112V.
2016 year. Aviastar-SP JSC proceeds with the preparation of the production and manufacture of the first parts for the prototype.
2017 year. At VASO began assembling the first instance of the aircraft.
2018 year. November 27 The 2018 of the year at VASO underwent the procedure of transmitting the first IL-112В flight model to the flight test station.
2019 year. 30 March 2019, the first flight of the IL-112V.
What can I say? In fact, 15 years spent on the construction and the first flight of the flight sample. Well, to be honest, we knew more long-term projects. But what happened next?
And then a wave of criticism began. And often not something that was unreasonable, but simply some cries of people who didn’t fit the VASO gun and didn’t even know how this plane was born. What throes of creativity.
And really, you can't call it otherwise. Today the concept of a labor feat somehow does not exist, I agree. However, the fact that in Voronezh there were people whose hands the plane was assembled and flew, is a feat by now. If only because for ten years, VASO was simply kicked from department to department, the salary of those who remained in the field was at the level of a cleaner in a minimarket, and there were no prospects at all.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense aircraft fleet slowly and steadily became disheartened. Moreover, since 2015, everything has gone by leaps and bounds. Yes, exactly when they quarreled with Ukraine and to serve all these ancient An-24, An-26, which were already dilapidated, there was no one and nothing. The production base of spare parts was closed for us.
The situation was completely unpleasant, the situation had to be changed.
Then the leaders of the Ministry of Defense did a stupid thing. When it came right up to the president, he was happily reported that it was okay, everything was under control. The OKB (now Aviation Complex) named after S. V. Ilyushin is working on a domestic aircraft on 100%. And this plane will fly into the sky in the summer of 2017.
Alas, it quickly became clear that rainbow reports are one thing, but the reality is often completely different. For throughout the entire 2017 of the year IL-112B, if it was something of itself, then it’s rather a set for construction, and a fairly incomplete one.
Plus, as the assembly began to turn out unpleasant things. For example, the initial overload of the aircraft is almost three tons. This, by the way, became known in the same 2017.
In parallel, problems with alignment were revealed. Moreover, both problems existed initially, that is, they were the fruits of design flaws. Nikolai Talikov, chief designer of the AK named after Ilyushin, explained such an unpleasant result by the fact that the new generation of designers turned out to be “weak”.
Is amazing? Not. Naturally. In terms of the training of designers, it’s more than sad in the country; it’s not a secret to anyone. Why potential aircraft designers don’t want to beg, I don’t know, but they don’t. And they go anywhere, but not to the design departments of aircraft companies, alas.
Did Alexey Rogozin, Director General of the AK Ilyushin AK know about this? They say that he knew. It was from 2017 that he knew, but he continued to make confident and encouraging reports. By myself. For which he was punished by the deprivation of all posts and posts. Right? Full
A rare case in the country, usually our officials can easily shoot down an airplane or drown a ship. But then the opposite happened; IL-112B shot down Rogozin. Completely Well, and God bless him, the main thing is that a knowledgeable and understanding specialist, and not an “effective” manager, will come to the place of the AK named after S. Ilyushin.
In general, aviation specialists, to whom it was possible to reach out, unanimously say one thing: IL-112В was originally a “crooked” project, which should not have taken off at all.
But when it began to smell real plantings and expulsions, the management of AK Ilyushin went on principle, formed a new team under the leadership of Bykov (God bless them of health and success in the future) and started to eliminate the flaws of the previous team of designers at a shock pace.
And what happened in March 2019, I repeat, by and large, this can be called a feat. Absolutely a failed project, which could become one of the symbols of the cut of the country and the same disappointment, suddenly took off.
Of course, not suddenly. Of course, the hellish efforts of the whole AK of Il'yushin, VASO as a whole and the Hero of Russia test-pilot Nikolai Kuimov in particular.
Well, a certain answer to all those who squealed and were unhappy that the plane would have to be “corrected” within a year. While there will be tests, corrections and corrections will be made. Already at the time of the first flight, it was possible to “remove” one ton of overload from three and work with reloading the tail section.
In total, it is planned to make about a hundred changes to the design.
Yes, yesterday (in March) IL-112В demonstrated that our design school has weakened. Very weak, very strong. But, fortunately, not critical. Otherwise, the plane would have remained on the ground, what a magician or soar at the helm.
And yes, this is the first military transport aircraft actually created in our country. Sorry, but there is a difference between building such a machine, really on 100% from domestic components, and assembling an imported designer of the “Superjet” type.
15 years - is it a lot or a little?
And it all depends on the result. It is clear that now the AK named after Ilyushin are waiting for dismissal and upheaval, but I hope that they will cope. And in a year our army will have a new transport plane.
The year is not so much. There is something to wait for.
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