This is a plant named after one of the most prominent aircraft designers of the 20th century – Andrey Tupolev.
Way to the shop
Aircraft engine
The inner space of the shop is separated by partitions into three.
Amphibian motor sleigh AS-2 – offroad vehicle intended for transportation of cargos and passengers on ice, snow and water (max speed 90km/h).
Its creation began long ago by Tupolev himself. Back in 1924 such all-metal skiing motor sleigh АНТ-IV was made.
Aicraft engine of “Rolls Royce” company
Fuselage transportation
On the basis of this fuselage of TU-204 they plan to build a search and rescue simulator.
Its cabin inside
Behind the fuselage
Looks like a pressure chamber
Inside
Flap support structure
Here chassis is tested
Big wooden chassis
Real cabin
Its wooden model
Everything but the chairs – is from wood!
Even the laptop
Some equipment
And this is the real cabin
Of course it’s a simulator but not wooden at all…
One more cabin
Model of the aircraft bypass turbojet. Such turbojets are used for TU-334
Here the staff may train
This part of the building is probably not operational.
Electro-ray installation ELU-24-8
Unfortunately it does not work
“Do not touch the test samples”, “Entry in working clothes only”
This doesn’t resemble a Google office, eh?
via saoirse-2010
the factory looks very old…
Such a mess! No wonder they cannot compete. And the the Superjet crash in Indonesia. Does not look good for the Russian commercial plane industry.
WOW last picture is of a blanik L13 cockpit many many rivets flying in formation, they were good gliders in their time but not any more too much metal fatigue !!!
have they found out what happened exactly? I have been wondering and I know it takes time but its so quiet.
what a dirty plant, full of crapola and poorly lit
Of course it poorly lit. The lights are off as you may have noticed. They didn’t have permission to be there, as it says in the source.
It is difficult to imagine that this is an operational facility. Looks very bad.
Looks legit!
Hmm, there is a Blanik at our local field and seems to fly every week.
I have seen many hours of Russian aircraft,they have a great history and there machines are very much respected around the world. The only thing different is how it is managed from the top down. It will be very interesting to see how things unfold in the next thirty years.
LOL….”Boeing” of Russia, NOT!
LOL…They are the Boeing of Russia, They just can’t compete with the likes of Boeing, Airbus, etc.