MOSCOW, July 24 (AVN) - The All-Russian Institute of Aviation Materials has mastered production of the UVNK-14 system for founding single-crystal blades for modern jet gas-turbine engines and power plants, the institute's director general, correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yevgeny Kabalov, said on Tuesday.
The system has no analogues abroad, Kabalov told the Military News Agency. It can found large-size blades with the length of up to 650mm in a liquid-crystal cooler on the technology that only the institute possesses. The founding process is automated and controlled by a computer.
UVNK-14 will be marketed for about USD300,000. Three systems have been purchased by the Permskiye Motory JS, one by the Rybinskiye Motory JS and one more by the Samara-based Kuznetsov research and technical association. Several large engine-building companies from abroad are also taking interest to the institute's founding technologies.
UVNK-14 will be exhibited at the MAKS 2001 aerospace show that is to take place near Moscow from August 14 to 19.