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This magnificent and Museum-Quality crafted Sukhoi SU-37 Russian AIRPLANE WOOD MODEL is finely handmade from kiln-dried Wood Mahogany and skillfully hand-painted by gifted artists.

It is 11.50" in Length, with 7.71" Wingspan, weighing 0.44 pounds, and a package weight of about 2.20 pounds.

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Sukhoi SU- 37

The Su-37 made a fascinating debut at Farnborough '96 even though it had been known about for over two years. It is the latest in the line of many Flanker variants produced by Sukhoi, the leading member of the "dead" Russian aerospace industry. It is remarkable, not only from the standpoint that it represents perhaps our most dangerous threat and competitor, but also from the fact that it exists at all. The following is an attempt to summarize the design approach characteristic to Sukhoi fighters and with that some of the information learned about the latest of the line, the Su-37 Thrust Vectored Control (TVC) fighter.

The Flanker prototype was first photographed in 1977 by US reconnaissance satellites at the Zhukovsky flight test center, called Ramenskoye by US intelligence because they used the name of what they thought was the nearest recognizable village, unaware at the time that the test center was located in the center of a small town. It was given the provisional designation of "RAM K" and was observed to be a twin-engine fighter with sharply swept-back leading-edge root extensions and

twin tails. In early 1984, Air Force Magazine and Jane's published retouched copies of the earlier satellite photo's of both the Su-27 (RAM-K) and the MiG-29 (RAM-L), but by that time, both aircraft were in series production and several variants of both were being developed.

The "Family Tree" of the Flanker started when the baseline research was carried out by the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) in the mid 1970's. TsAGI is located in Moscow and presently run by Professor German I. Zagianov (7-7-09555-64153 with fax at 7-7-09527-10019). This resulted in the T-10-1 prototype, which was built during 1976-1977 and made its first flight on 20 May 1977, with Sukhoi test pilot Major Vladimir S. Ilyushin, the son of the founder of the Ilyushin OKB, at the controls. Thirty Eight flights were included in the initial test plan that ended in January 1978. Directional stability problems persisted with the narrowly spaced vertical tails at speeds over Mach 2.0, while comparative studies demonstrated that the aircraft would still be inferior to the US F-15 Eagle, having less than 75% of it's weapon system and performance capabilities.

The second prototype (T10-2) was built in 1978, but crashed on its second flight. Faults were found in the hybrid fly-by-wire (FBW) control system which eventually cost the lives of two test pilots, the first being the well known Evgeny Soloviev in T-10-2. These aircraft were configured with the Arkhip-Lyulka AL-21F-3 (11,200 kg/24,692 lbs) engines which carried additional oxygen bottles for afterburner and restart capability. Note that the Arkhip-Lyulka organization became the Saturn-Lyulka organization after the Cold War ended.

In 1978, the Sukhoi bureau built the third and fourth prototypes (T-10-3/T-10-4) which were modified to accommodate the new generation AL-31F engines and some aerodynamic improvements which unfortunately did not fix the stability problems and continued to cause concern. To make the necessary extension to the flight test program a small lot of five additional aircraft were produced (T-10-5/6/9/10 and 11). The seventh and eighth models were kept on the design boards as candidates for the radical changes that were now being expected to overcome the growing problems. The other prototype articles were each configured with a specialized set of electronic equipment because along with stability, the Russian Air Force was trying to fit a twenty pound goose into a two pound chicken pot. All single-seat aircraft were being manufactured at the newly renovated Sukhoi Yury Gagarin Aircraft Production Complex in Konsomolsk-on-Amur in the Khabarovsk Territory of Far East Russia. Today it is known as the Konsomolsk-on Amur (KnAPO) Aircraft Production Complex and Viktor Merkulov is the General Director (7-42172-63567 tel and fax at 7-42172-63451). The Irkutsk Aviation Production Association (IAPA) is the second production facility and specializes in the dual-seat variants such as the Su-27UB/PU and Su-30m/MK, and it is located in southern Russia.

Series production was of course denied by the Russian Air Force and the entire Flanker program went into a radical redesign phase. The aircraft simply could not meet the required specifications. The avionics package was much too heavy, the engines were eating up too much fuel, and the aero-stability of the platform was in great question, even after eight years of development. Hence, after a period of serious brainstorming and after heads rolled, a new design team was formed under the same General Designer, Mikhail Simonov, whose leadership carried the major redesign work through the next four years and resulted in the family of aircraft seen today.

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