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18.5. ТЕХТ
Freighter versatile aircraft T-101 "Grach"
The "Т-101" combines design simplicity and reliability, comfortable
environment for both crew and passengers, rather low aircraft cost and possibility of
its operation from the short ground strips. Aircraft is good for airlift of 9 passengers
or cargo of 1,200 kg at the range up to 1,270 km. Aircraft is versatile, since it can be
rapidly reequipped. The "Т-101" aircraft can be used as the air ambulance, wrecking,
patrol, people and cargo para-dropping, as the flight schools’ training aircraft.
The "Т-101" "Grach" is all-metal, single engine, braced high wing monoplane,
with standard single fin empennage and three wheel LG (tail wheel steering). Aircraft
is equipped with economical turbo-prop engine.
Cockpit accommodates two pilots and has seats with longitudinal and vertical
adjustment. On the portside and starboard of cockpit there are individual doors for the
crew members, equipped with emergency release mechanisms for aircraft emergency
abandonment.
High universality of aircraft is achieved due to wide opening of the cargo-
passenger cabin.
Aircraft anti-icing system is of three types: "air-heat" for the hot air supply
from engine to the windshield, "oil-heat" for engine air-intake and electro-metric for
the prop tips and pitots.
Fire equipment has the warning system with fire sensor installed in the engine
bay, fire extinguishing system with a fire bottle charged with chladone, installed in
the engine bay and operating from the squib. Crew cockpit and passengers cabin are
equipped with the air-conditioning system.
"Grach" has instruments and avionics, including airborne radar installed in the
pod, providing qualitative and safe (mostly in independent mode of operation) flight
and navigation at day and night, in VFR and adverse weather conditions, above water
or landmarks free territory.
The main element of flight-navigation equipment are GPS receiver, ADF, radio
altimeter, directional gyro, meteorological radar.
The "Т-101" can be operated from unprepared RWYs and intended for the use
by geologists, oil and gas industry workers, farmers, shortly to say – by everybody
who needs reliable and maintenance easy aircraft.
18.6. TEXT
SUPPLEMENTARY READING
Su-35 multi- role fighter
On the world fighter market Russia’s Sukhoi is pinning its hopes, in the near
future, on a substantially modernized Su-35 multi-role fighter. The model must be an
interim type between today’s Su-30MK in various configurations and a prospective
fifth-generation fighter, whose deliveries may start in the second half of the next
decade. The Su-35 is a 4++ generation aircraft employing technologies of the fifth
