- Can we say with certainty what the T-50 is the main rival?
- With regard to the comparison of the aircraft 5th-generation, then I say, I looked like piloting "Raptor" at Farnborough, and I can say that our Su-30 demonstrated a much more advanced program 10 years ago. So much for the regime of super-maneuverability. But, of course, there are many other aspects, which for obvious reasons, I can not stop there: in the whole plane is integrated into the weapons system, which has a structure of information exchange - is the question a slightly different level, since the F-22 is already in service, and T-50 just tested. But if we talk about their opposition in a dogfight alone, I do not see in the future any problems for us. Of course, we still have much to do, we say, at the beginning of the transformation of the T-50 in dangerous weapon, but in general it is clear what and how to do it.
- At MAX, we watched the stunning acrobatics of T-50 in your performance. How long do you have to train, to work out a demo? Or for you is simple - sat down and flew.
- I always kind of skeptical attitude to some delightful reviews about their aerobatics. We - the test pilots and aerobatics - it is not our specificity. This is an elective for us, to whom we are attracted to a certain frequency. The T-50 aerobatics I have not actively engaged since last max. In general, more than two weeks to prepare to allocate it is impossible, in the best case it's two dozen training flights, but before, when our aircraft flew for the first Air Show, the training program included a fifty flights. But these flying quite expensive, and most importantly - they divert cars from the promotion of the test program, because the planes are on other bases where there are landfills, and here they are taken to another location to engage the demo task. Although, of course, it is also important, and here too there is a test component: some things work enough resource, but the main goal - to show the possibilities of technology, and the T-50 does allow the program to show very impressive, but I appreciate your aerobatics very restrained.Imagine an athlete, gymnast say you did not perform the year, let's fly Tkachev, we'll summarize the projectile to two weeks before the competition, and will make this element. Perhaps the performance of the athlete will not be ideal. I know that I have something to improve, and I would imagine for aerobatics set 4-minus, and words of admiration about the possibility remarkable aircraft, which is invested in labor and talent of so many people.
- January 29, 2010 you raise the T-50 in the first flight. On the day everything went smoothly, there is a problem in one of the drives, the plane "shaking" and you even talked to him, calmed him. Do you really believe that you can hear a plane or is it a form of psychological training before the flight?
- It's from the same series of questions such as "what a person goes to the temple?". There is something there at the level of mentality. It is perhaps wrong, but the flight crews - quite superstitious people. And I, too, some pay attention to detail. It should be for something to treat with disdain, they say, it's just a piece of iron, and this piece of iron immediately show its character. And there it is on level ground and it is unclear why. Therefore, with a share of superstition it refers to the plane, and some little things in preparation for the flight.
In general, if we talk about the attitude of a test pilot for the plane, the goal of our work - is to get the maximum number of comments. Therefore, we never do not belong to the plane with reverence: what it is wonderful, I love it and so on. We have to treat the aircraft as children. Child can not praise, or anything worthwhile out of it will not grow. Therefore, we have the plane take very critical: each flight looking for him first of all shortcomings, rather than dignity.
- How did the pilot test are preparing for the first flight on the new machine?
- The laws are written in blood in the air. With the rise of the new aircraft and Incidents. Therefore, at the time, Alexander Gavrilovic Zudilov, head of flight test base of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, proposed the creation of a document ordering aircrew training to the first lift. This document was, so to speak, for internal use, but it was approved quite high - in the Office of the flight service. It exhaustively painted as a pilot to carry out the first ascent of the prototype, how to carry out the rise of the second prototype of this series is to raise production aircraft of a new modification, which Exercises carried out as work on the stands, how many hours to study theoretical disciplines, which tests to take, etc. .d.
When the pilot is going to raise a new car, he opened the paper - and everything is very clearly written. The theory depends on the complexity of the machine: the first ascent of the prototype, for example, is a program of 100 hours of study theoretical disciplines. Gazovki painted aircraft, working out at the stands: what it should be benches, public departments. Pilot all this studying, asking questions, working with engineers, goes to the KB, all the finds, and in the end becomes quite understandable.
- And T-50 is also raised exactly this document, or there was some specifics?
- Specificity lift T-50 was the fact that there was a task to raise the machine is not in Zhukovsky, and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. There's usually a military airfield and a strip length of only 2,500 meters. And in Zhukovsky streak is the longest in Europe. Its total length - 5.5 km. In case of cancellation and termination of the take-off is very helpful.
When lifting the aircraft is the most difficult time - a high-speed run. It is necessary to accelerate to a certain speed - 250 km / h, to raise the nose, go for a run with a raised nose at a certain angle and then lower it. For example, first jogging on the Su-35, which I performed in Zhukovsky, not gone as expected. I accelerate to a much smaller one, which was to start lifting, traction I was still at the maximum, and then at a fixed handle the aircraft's nose lifted and flew. I throttled cravings, handle entirely paid by myself and successfully put the car, good streak was the longest. It turned out that the control system has a feature: at a certain speed the transition from the regime of "land" to "flight". That's what you need to raise the nose while jogging to all sensors rebuilt. And it turned out that due to the abnormal setting of a sensor control system moved in airplane mode is still on the ground, and the aircraft "thought" that he needed to reject the stabilizer, because it turned out to be the wrong parameters. Here for such cases and important band size.
There is always a risk of a failure, an error in the assembly, structural defect. So in the case of the T-50 had to work on the stand as jogging as stop off, how to fit into a certain size strip. To find out, on the stand have been worked out about 240 modes under different conditions: the rejection of this refusal, such thrust, thrust another, and only after it became quite clear that everything is solved completely safe, we went to the first lif
