The new Il-96-400M aircraft is intended for government and cargo air transportation, said Denis Manturov, head of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade. This was reported by RIA News.
“In the first stage, we will leave this prototype in the form of a flight laboratory so that we can understand at what stage we can use this type of aircraft primarily for state and private purposes while creating a program for a heavy wide-body aircraft. transportation, because IL-96-300 is used today,” Manturov said.
Previously Tupolev company patented the hypersonic aircraft with two turbojet engines. One engine uses aviation kerosene as fuel, and the other uses “cryogenic fuel.” The board was divided into several categories. These include: “Supersonic aircraft” and “Reusable space transport ships”.
Blogger and military expert Yuri Podolyak in early November explained the meaning Creating a wide-body passenger aircraft from Russian components. According to him, the news that the purely Russian wide-body passenger aircraft Il-96-400M, with absolutely all its components manufactured in the Russian Federation, made its first flight made him think: “but the overwhelming majority of Russian citizens did not even understand the meaning of what was happening.”
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