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In the new Putin plane, the toilet costs 75 thousand dollars
For Russian President Vladimir Putin , a new working office is being prepared . Ilyushin OKB was engaged in the development of the aircraft. The IL-96-300 airliner is taken as a basis, which is equipped with a new salon and a modern special communications complex.
Until now, the president had to fly on the IL-96-300 aircraft, which he inherited from Boris Yeltsin. About this Yeltsin liner, built in 1996 at the Voronezh aircraft -building association, was once talked about as a technical miracle. Suffice it to say that its salon turned out to be two -story - with two bedrooms, showers, a meeting room, a rest room, and even with an intensive care unit. The plane was painted in Holland, and the salon was finished in Switzerland (according to the sketches of the son of the artist Ilya Glazunov), writes MN. At the same time, the decoration of the salon of the presidential aircraft was estimated in the amount of $ 35 - 40 million. The total cost of the IL-96-300 wide-body aircraft (designed for 12,000 kilometers, has a length of 55 meters and a weight of 230 tons), which is considered the most expensive of domestic airliners, reaches $ 300 million.
In 1992, the Voronezh aircraft plant (Voronezh Aviation and Construction Association - VASO) began creating three aircraft - two for Yeltsin and one for the then Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. The first presidential aircraft was built quickly enough, but the creation of the second was slowed down for a long time. In 1995, Alexander Korzhakov visited Voronezh, who smashed the interior of the second car to the fluff. Then they decided to make interior decoration in Switzerland - a recognized leader in the arrangement of aircraft interiors for the first persons of various states.
The new presidential aircraft stood in the workshop of the Voronezh aircraft factory. He was periodically lubricated by the most important nodes, and no one at the factory assumed that someday this car would have to be returned to life.
In 2001, revitalization began in Voronezh - the construction of the second aircraft for Vladimir Putin was finally financed in full.
To date, the readiness of the aircraft is almost 90 percent. The entire Swiss finish was torn off from him. Now the British are working on the interior. Under their leadership, 30 workers specially discharged from the Ulyanovsk Aircraft Wapel are working on the aircraft interior.
About 300 local factory specialists are also involved in the work.
The plane stands in the workshop and is fenced with a concrete fence. Inside - a closed area, entrance by special transmission.
The decoration of the second presidential car is richer the first. Every day trucks with wood are in the workshop. In the first aircraft there is one bar, in this - three. More and a rest room, which is decorated with two beds for the presidential couple. The plumbing for President Putin cost a penny - a toilet, for example, almost 75 thousand dollars. All wooden decoration inside is domestic. It is said that when the cleaning lady a little scratched the wooden upholstery of the cabin, several square meters of wood were immediately replaced. The president’s working cabinet is small, about nine square meters, and for Vladimir Putin to calmly fly and work, a comprehensive airplane control system is installed in the cabin of the pilots - two large screens, which will be displayed all the parameters of the machine.
To date, the car has not yet taken into the air - this will happen in April -May. To test the aircraft, you will have to make 3-4 three-hour flights, during which all the components of the aircraft will be checked. It is planned to transfer it to the special brigade of Vnukovo Airport for the maintenance of presidential machines by the beginning of the summer. By the way, the current presidential aircraft served the President of the poor service. In 2001, after one of the flights, Vladimir Putin descended along the ladder, and the engine that had not yet been stopped threw the dirt in his direction. This motor was replaced in an emergency order. The second presidential machine, based on a fairly soft regime of its operation, should last at least ten years before the first overhaul, the Voronezh News website reports.
IL -96-300 - flight range 11 thousand kilometers, maximum speed of 900 km/h, maximum number of passengers - 300, carrying capacity of up to 40 tons. The machine is equipped with four engines produced by the Perm Motor Plant.
A deserved test pilot Viktor Galkin will experience a new aircraft
The order of the President of the Russian Federation-the IL-96-300 aircraft these days are ready to readily specialists of the Voronezh aircraft factory.
The plane is tested in a fox (flight test station), connecting dozens of sensors, from which cables flow to various ground, or rather "floor" installations, which overwhelmed the airbus on all sides. There is a test of the nodes for strength, the willingness to obey the will of the pilot, and then the plane will rise to the sky, the newspaper "Commune" writes.
One of those who first raise the presidential plane will be a honored test pilot Viktor Galkin. The pilot of the first class of Galkin has almost the largest experience of the tester in the country - 27 years. He flies in the air for 34 years.
The first IL-96-300, on board which is flying on business trips, Russian President Vladimir Putin, also rolled up by Viktor Galkin. As a pilot-instructor, he made 20 flights with a team of Presidential pilots. One of his wards - Sergei Antsiferov - still flies on that first IL -96-300, on the full side of which the inscription: "Russia" flaunts.
At the same time, the IL-96-300 aircraft raised into the air more than a dozen years ago have not yet been launched into a series, the plant has to be limited to piece production.
In the third year of the flight school, Viktor Galkin fell into a difficult catastrophe: two training aircraft collided, led by pilots - instructors. The instructors of both ships, managed to eject, but crashed to death. And the cadets remained alive. Viktor Galkin did not tighten his belts due to inexperience, so the catapult did not work, and he ruined the binding system and "rolled out" from an airplane at an altitude of 600 meters. Subsequently, he found out that at a low height of the catapult, he sharply accelerates the parachute, and the strange way that he used just softened the power of impact on the ground. Another cadet Konstantin Morozov (who later became the Minister of Defense of Ukraine) fell into a huge pile of road gravel and moved down on the tangent.
Mentors considered that after such a shock, cadets would not be able to fly and invited them to continue their studies at a civilian university. Cadets judged in their own way: "We will fly." Having become a tester (studied at the famous Lipetsk training center), Galkin mastered more than 30 types of aircraft, rose to the colonel.