On Wednesday, February 9, the Baikal light aircraft was presented in Moscow at the Crocus Expo site as part of the NAIS 2022 exhibition. Designers and developers are confident that this aircraft will revive regional flights.
“The Baikal aircraft is designed for flights to hard-to-reach places up to the selection of landing from the air. The main materials should still be traditional aluminum alloys, ”said Vadim Demin, chief designer of LMS-901 Baikal.
The aircraft is easy to maintain, and the cost of a flight hour is no more than 30,000 rubles. At the same time, there are two places for pilots and nine places for passengers inside the aircraft. Whereas in the cockpit there is a powerful and perfect equipment.
“It has a deep modernization potential. It is capable of expanding the functionality of the aircraft to suit any whims of the customer,” explained Eduard Gerasimov, head of the experimental design bureau for avionics equipment, deputy chief designer for avionics.
However, “Baikal” can land on the ground, mud, as well as snow and water. It is possible to use the aircraft at temperatures from -50 to +50 degrees.
According to Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Oleg Bocharov, at the moment there are no plans to create a fully unmanned version of a light aircraft. At the same time, he noted that the creation of a remote control of the vessel is envisaged, but it is still incorrect to talk about the timing.
“An unmanned version of Baikal will not appear. We believe that [на этот самолет] equipment can be installed that allows it to be remotely piloted,” Bocharov said.
Serial production of Baikal will begin in 2024.
Earlier, on January 30, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Denis Manturov, announced that Baikal had made its first flight. The plane took off from the Ekaterinburg airfield in the city of Aramil, Sverdlovsk region. The flight took place at an altitude of 500 m and lasted about 25 minutes. As part of the flight mission, test pilot 1st class Valentin Lavrentiev performed maneuvers to test the stability and controllability of the aircraft in the air. According to the pilot, during the flight mission, the aircraft systems worked in the normal mode.
Source: IZ
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