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AIRCRAFT OF THE FUTURE
VOLGA-DNEPR INVITES WINNERS OF ‘FUTURE AIRLIFTER’ CONTEST TO JOIN ITS DESIGN BUREAU TEAM
Volga-Dnepr Group’s international competition to design an ‘Advanced Transport Aircraft of the 21st Century’ inspired aircraft engineers and aviation enthusiasts from 22 to 74 years of age to put forward their ideas and was won by three students attending the Moscow Aviation Institute.
The 12-month long contest culminated in the winners being announced at the third International Air Transport Forum (IATF-2014) in Ulyanovsk, Russia, the city where Volga-Dnepr was founded in 1990.
The winning team of Sergey Borovykh, Nikolay Turbin and Ilya Ageev presented a 200-page project for the design of a ‘Heavy Transport Aircraft Concept with New Aerodynamic Confi guration’. Their proposal consisted of a full description and design solutions for a triplane aircraft of the Antonov-225 ‘Mriya’ type.
The twin-boom designed aircraft, with external loading capability, is designed to carry ‘super heavy’ and outsize cargo suspended under a center wing section between two fuselages. The winners have now been invited to join the Volga- Dnepr Design Bureau team.
Artem Aroutyunov, Deputy Technical Director and Head of Design Bureau at Volga-Dnepr Group, said: “We launched this contest for everyone who cares about the future of transport aviation, who aspires to contribute to its
development, and who has the energy and knowledge to do this. That is why we did not set age limits. The youngest participant in the contest was 22 and the eldest was 74 years of age. Through this exercise, which has realised all of our original goals, we have met a lot of talented people and received interesting, complex and detailed projects for transport aircraft and engine units from Russia, Bulgaria, Germany, Serbia and Ukraine. The best of them are real design solutions to be applied in the aviation industry.”
The judging panel, led by Victor Tolmachev, Technical Director of Volga-Dnepr Group, evaluate the competition entries.
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