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transportation of small-sized cargo and mail;
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emergency medical assistance;
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forestry monitoring and water ecology monitoring with water sampling
capability;
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maritime border patrolling and air photography;
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pleasure trips and tourism.
LAYOUT VARIANTS DESIGN
The aircraft is of riveted design, made of aluminum alloys with special rust-
protective coatings to ensure operation in all climatic conditions. It also features
titanium alloys, polymers and glass-reinforced plastics. The materials were chosen to
ensure the required strength and weight characteristics, the set service life as well as
given fire safety and survivability requirements. The airframe is a one-piece structure
consisting of the boat, the centre wing section, the fin and engine pylons. The
detachable parts include detachable wing sections (cantilevers), the horizontal
stabiliser, the rudder and nacelles. The Be-103 systems and equipment comprises the
fire-fighting system, the control system, the hydraulic system, the heating and
ventilating system, the anti-icing system and the flight control and navigation
equipment.
POWER PLANT
The Be-103 amphibian is fitted with two US Teledyne Continental Motors 210
hp TCM IO-360ES4 air-cooled piston engines. The power plant ensures reliable
startup of engines in a wide variety of temperatures (from +45°C to –55°С),
and provides for comfortable conditions in the cockpit, complying with noise and
emissions requirements. The two engines allow flying at an altitude of 3,000 m at a
speed of 250 km/h to the ranges of up to 1,180 km. The engines are operated along
with the MTV-12 three-blade reverse-pitch propellers designed by MT-Propeller,
Germany.
RADIO COMMUNICATIONSFLIGHT CONTROLAND
NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT
Elements of the radio communications, flight-control and navigation
equipment, as well as the aircraft systems control panels are accommodated on the
instrument panel, the central, the upper and the side consoles in the cockpit. This
equipment provides for self-sufficiency during flight preparation or aircraft
maintenance, as well as VFR and IFR manual flight modes, in daytime and at night,
in any season and any region of the world. Also, it allows fulfilling the following
tasks: a 10-minute preflight preparation; continuous measuring of the aircraft present
position, the set track angle and lateral deviation; ICAO Category I manual approach;
measuring of the flight altitude, vertical speed and airspeed, and outside air
temperature; indication and warning of operating limitations and critical flight
conditions.
