2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16
In the Soviet Union, air tickets were relatively inexpensive, and most of the passenger traffic was carried out by medium-haul liners. A flight from city to city over a distance of 500 to 1000 kilometers cost 30-40 rubles, which, of course, was higher than railway tariffs, but it was quite affordable for an ordinary worker or engineer. In the early nineties, air carriers began to feel a systemic crisis that hit other sectors of the country's economy. Reliable and time-tested cars designed for regional lines turned out to be unclaimed, they quickly grew old. Flights have become a luxury only available to the nouveau riche.
The design of new airliners with a capacity of 50-80 passengers with a flight range of a couple of thousand kilometers was frozen. Therefore, when the need for such aircraft again arose, airlines turned to foreign aircraft manufacturers, in particular, to the Canadian company Bombardier.
Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) is a line of passenger aircraft designed to comfortably carry 50-100passengers on short and medium-haul lines. The climatic conditions of the producing country are close to ours. Low fuel consumption, high performance, ease of retraining of pilots and technical personnel created competitive advantages that contributed to the rapid advancement of these liners in the Russian air transportation market.
The first model of the Canadair Regional Jet series, put on the wing in 1991, received the index CRJ-100. Canadian designers deliberately abandoned the wide-body scheme popular in recent decades, opting for economy. To increase it, four years later the aircraft was finalized by installing General Electric CF-34B1 engines instead of CF-34A1. The avionics was also upgraded, flights in difficult weather conditions became possible. The number of seats remained the same - 50, but such large-scale design changes were reflected in the new index - Canadair Regional Jet-200, although outwardly it was difficult to distinguish it from the "weave".
The interior of the cabin is distinguished by aesthetics and a high level of comfort, the chairs are very comfortable and have leather upholstery. The engines of the Canadair Regional Jet series are located on pylons on the sides of the rear fuselage, and this arrangement, first used on the Caravelle, ensures low noise levels.
In the early 1990s, joystick-type pilot grips were a technically feasible option for controls, but the Canadian manufacturer settled on the familiarpilots around the world on control columns, which increased the export potential of the new machine. Alarm devices have been replaced with functional, ergonomic multicolor displays.
Like any successful development, Canadair Regional Jet aircraft have a high modification potential. Design features made it possible to change the flight characteristics and passenger capacity. The model line has been replenished with new liners with a large number of seats and an increased practical route radius. So, created in 2001, the Canadair Regional Jet-900 liner takes on board almost twice as many passengers as the base model CRJ-100. Of course, in order to make this possible, the length of the fuselage had to be increased, and with it the wingspan and engine power. Perhaps the needs of the air transportation market will cause the appearance of new modifications of the aircraft of the Canadian Regional Jet Liners Company.
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