MOSCOW. April 12 (Interfax-AVN) - Over 130 R&D institutes, design bureaus and mass production plants from eight countries will exhibit their products at the Dvigateli 2002 international show in Moscow from April 16 to 19, director general of the show Viktor Chuiko told Interfax-Military News Agency on Friday.
This year's show will be much larger and more representative that the previous one, said Chuiko, who is also president of the Union of Aircraft Engine Building. For instance, the Moscow-based Salyut machine-building production association has doubled the area of its section at the show. Exhibits of the association that makes engines for SU-27 Flanker fighters and other aircraft will cover the area of 300 square meters.
Salyut established its own design bureau three years ago, Chuiko said. It modernized the AL-31F jet engine for the SU-27 fighter on its own initiative. The engine is undergoing flight tests.
Both new and modernized engines will be exhibited at the show, Chuiko said. Among them is the VK-2500 engine designed by the Klimov plant in St. Petersburg. The plant also demonstrates the famous RD-33 by-pass engine with an afterburner for the MIG- 29 Fulcrum fighter, as well as its derivatives RD-33 of Series 3 and Series 3M.
The Perm engine plant will exhibit Russia's first fourth- generation engine PS-90A intended for the TU-204 and IL-96-300 airliners as well as for the IL-76MF Candid military transport.
Russian R&D institutes and design bureaus have worked out a modernization program for older engines currently in operation on TU-154 Careless and IL-86 Camber airliners and the AN-124 Ruslan military transport. The program envisages installation of noise- consuming elements and other novelties that make it possible to reduce the noise level and emission of poisonous substances.
"Generally speaking, the domestic science and engine- building industry are ready to offer new aircraft with engines meeting ICAO requirements and to modernize below the requirements," Chuiko stressed.
A research and technical symposium entitled Engines and Environment Protection will take place in the framework of the show. 14 reports on relevant problems will be made at the symposium.