In the Soviet Union tickets cost relatively inexpensive, and most of the medium-range passenger traffic carried liners.Flight from town to town for a distance of 500 to 1,000 kilometers costs about 30-40 rubles, which, of course, was higher railway tariffs, but quite expensive for an ordinary worker or engineer.In the early nineties carriers began to feel a systemic crisis that has hit other sectors of the economy.Reliable and time-tested machines designed for regional lines, were not in demand, they quickly grew old.Air tickets have become a luxury available only nouveaux riches.
design of new aircraft with a capacity of 50-80 passengers with a range of a couple of thousand kilometers has been frozen.Therefore, when the newly emerged need for such aircraft, the airline turned to foreign aircraft manufacturers, in particular, to the Canadian company Bombardier.
Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) - is a linear series of passenger aircraft designed for comfortable transportation of passengers on lines 50-100 small and medium-haul.The climatic conditions of the country of manufacture close to our own.Low fuel consumption, high performance, ease of re-training of pilots and technical personnel create a competitive advantage, contributing to the rapid advancement of these ships in the Russian air transport market.
first model series Canadair Regional Jet, posed on the wing in 1991, received a CRJ-100 index.Canadian designers have consciously refused to popular in the last decades of wide scheme, opting for efficiency.To increase it, four years later the airplane finalized by setting the engines "GE» CF-34B1 replace CF-34A1.He has undergone an upgrade and avionics, made possible flights in adverse weather conditions.Number of seats remained the same - 50, but such large-scale structural changes were reflected in the new index - Canadair Regional Jet-200, although apparently it was difficult to distinguish from the "hundreds."
Interior different aesthetics and a high level of comfort, seats are very comfortable and have leather upholstery.Engines from series aircraft Canadair Regional Jet pylons located on the sides of the rear fuselage, and this arrangement, first used on the "Caravel" provides a low noise level.
In the early nineties a technically feasible option controls were pilot's handle of the "joystick", but stopped at the Canadian maker of the usual for pilots worldwide yoke, which has increased the export potential of the new machine.Equipment- "alarm clocks" have been replaced by functional ergonomic multi-color displays.
Like any successful development, series aircraft Canadair Regional Jet have a high potential for modification.Design features allow you to change the flight characteristics and seating capacity.Model line expanded with new liners with a large number of seats and increased practical radius routes.Since established in 2001, liner Canadair Regional Jet-900 takes on board nearly twice as many passengers than 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 the engine power.Perhaps the market needs air will cause the appearance of new modifications of aircraft of the Canadian company's regional jet aircraft.
