Russian industrial collaboration was on display at MAKS in the form of the Rysachok twin turboprop.
Designed by the Technoavia bureau, which is headed by Slava Kondratiev, a former chief designer at Yakovlev and Sukhoi, production of the type is being undertaken by TsSKB Progress - more famous for the Soyuz rocket - in Samara. The latter firm has taken on the role as a means of filling under-utilised manufacturing capacity.
The Rysachok shown at MAKS was painted in a military colour scheme mimicking the Russian air force livery, and featured twin fuselage-mounted rocket pods.
Rysachok twin turboprop Billypix
