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Skunk Works Digest          Monday, 14 June 1993        Volume 03 : Number 059

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	Re: T-100: Russian espionage at work

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From: Geoff.Miller@Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 13:18:40 PDT
Subject: Re: T-100: Russian espionage at work

Phil writes:

>In this weeks Aviation Week & Space Technology (the June 7 issue), there is
>a small article on page 41 about a new Russian SST design called the Su-50.
>The plane will carry around 50 passengers.


With the exception of the Flanker-style clipped twin vertical stabilizers,
this airplane looks quite a bit like an enlarged version of a supersonic 
corporate jet that Sukhoi and Gulstream were collaborating on a year or 
two ago.  According to the drawing that accompanied the article, it even 
has Gulfstream-style oval windows.  (For anyone who hasn't seen the piece,
the drawing showed the airplane in Saudia livery.)

Does anyone know whatever became of that program?  I remember reading about
it in AvLeak about two years ago, and that was the last I ever heard about
it.  Is Gulfstream involved in this current project?  The article in AW&ST 
didn't mention Gulfstream, but those distinctive oval windows make me wonder.


>It looks almost *exactly* like the XB-70 Valkyrie. 

One of the first things I noticed was that the (single) vertical stabilizer
looks like it was lifted intact from the Tu-144 SST.



Geoff


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