newstodate.aero
Aug 22, 2008 (newstodate): Volga-Dnepr is mulling plans for building a special version of the AN-124 Ruslan freighter to accommodate
the special requirements of the aerospace industry and to carry extra bulky industrial payloads.
Increasing the cargo area on board the
aircraft would be achieved by slicing a
baseline AN-124 lengthwise, from nose to
tail, on a horizontal plane just below the
level of the cockpit.
Additional fuselage structure would then be inserted that would jack the upper section by around 2 m, increasing the tail height of
the freighter from 20.8 to 23.1 m, while the
fuselage width would remain as its present
6.4 m.
A study carried out by Volga-Dnepr of performance data for the AN-124-102 shows the aircraft would offer a payload capacity of 135 tonnes over a range of 2,500km, and fuel consumption would increase by some 10 percen.
the special requirements of the aerospace industry and to carry extra bulky industrial payloads.
Increasing the cargo area on board the
aircraft would be achieved by slicing a
baseline AN-124 lengthwise, from nose to
tail, on a horizontal plane just below the
level of the cockpit.
Additional fuselage structure would then be inserted that would jack the upper section by around 2 m, increasing the tail height of
the freighter from 20.8 to 23.1 m, while the
fuselage width would remain as its present
6.4 m.
A study carried out by Volga-Dnepr of performance data for the AN-124-102 shows the aircraft would offer a payload capacity of 135 tonnes over a range of 2,500km, and fuel consumption would increase by some 10 percen.