Moscow, February 25, 2009

Russian thermal airship "Ruthless", piloted by Leonid Tyuhtyaevym, set a new world record for flight duration for thermal airships in a subclass of the BX-03.

Pilot Tyukhtyaev Leonid Borisovich on hot-air airship Au-37 with the state registration number RA-0913G to fly with the aim of establishing a new world record.

Time spent in flight was 5:00 08 minutes. Take off the airship took place at 08:54 (GMT) from the outskirts of the city of Dmitrov, Moscow region. The airship landed at 14:02 (GMT).

The previous world record belonged to Briton David Hemplemanu Adams and is 4 hours straight. Thus, a new record to achieve more than an hour more than the old record.

Thermal airships

Thermal airships - a new type of aircraft for short flights. Apparently, the first airship in such a system became a Star (USA, 1975). In this unit the lift force provided the warm air, which heats a special heater. Now this scheme has changed - inside the shell are gas burners, oil burners, like the modern hot air balloon. Apparently, the airship was the first such firm AV 1R Kubichek, 1994 construction, retrofit in Russia and known as the "Owl".

Gas reserves for the flight of airships is enough for a couple of hours at a speed of 20-40 km / h. So today the world has witnessed a rise of airship: total to date is flying about 200 airships, including 14 in Russia. Now they are used for tourist excursions, as well as follow-up (two of these staff are patrolling the Moscow sky) to develop projects of large cargo airships - because this form of transport is recognized as one of the most economical.

The airship is made NPO AUGUR-RosAeroSystems "and belongs to the" Russian Factory Records. "

Tyukhtyaev Leonid Borisovich, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SB Bank (Ltd.), head of the Russian Factory Records. "

In 1979 he graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPI) at the Department of Experimental and Theoretical Physics degree in nuclear physics. "
More than ten years in banking. From 2000 to 2002 - deputy. chairman of SB Bank (Ltd.). From 2002 to present - Chairman of the Board of Directors of SB Bank (Ltd.).
Master of Sports. Multiple champion of the country, world record holder in ballooning.

NGO AUGUR - RosAeroSystems: Russia's leading producer of aeronautic engineering. Has its own design bureau, a unique unit for the manufacture and testing of shells, flight-testing facility and aviation training center.
Maintained long-term projects to develop hybrid cargo airships, unmanned stratospheric airship-satellite "Berkut".
NGOs developing airships for various tasks, such as: transportation of oversized cargo, aerial photography, cartography and exploration, tourism and air sailing.

"Russian Factory Records" - a project which has collected in his pilots, designers and manufacturers of aircraft and actually became a testing ground of innovation in the field of aeronautics. The main task - to prove in practice that Russia, which has huge scientific and technical potential and a wealth of intellectual resources actually moving forward, including in the field of scientific - technical progress.

Information provided by press service of Russian Factory Records. "