or it can be simple metal fatigue.

thats a brilliant pic.

Are we suprised?

not really…it was on the cards.

And thats a fairly quick delivery time too.

I believe Russian manufacturers can make cheaper products than what Airbus and Boeing are offering, by cheaper i mean not compremising in quality whatsoever but taking advantage of its cheap industrial labour and colaborating with its allies such as India who are growing names in the world aviation sector. The Indo-Russian light commuter aircraft project by HAL and Sukhoi should be approached with a good interest by Russia. If Russians do what they are capable of they can easily tap the markets in Asia and S.E. Asia with CIS, which in the future is a majour economicaly growing part of the world. And who knows, if they make a decent aircraft operators from Europe and USA also could show interest.

This market will be the next big boom (50-100 seat jets). With their early entry they could very well have some success. Right now only Embraer and Sukhoi are the only 2 offering “true” 50-100 seat jets (I don’t count the CRJ700/900). Bombardier announced their intention of building a similar product but by the time they get the first one out the door Embraer and Sukhoi could very well steal most of the business. I look forward to seeing this Russian entry.

question is how many countries except CIS nations are ready to accept a Russian project. Thats why i said Russia needs to make a world class product and market it well.

Interesting project…. again if the Russians are able to make it perform good and market it well it has good potential.

great Snaps! 🙂