N219 It Started to be Produced
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The design is made as simple as possible for easy operation. Two prototypes are targeted finished in October 2015 is also the engine, avionics and propellers will have arrived and ready for installation. Of the 145 units are set to break even capital, the two companies said to have ordered 130 units.
19 seat turboprop aircraft which has been predicted to be the backbone binder remote areas in Indonesia, finally began to be made. Metal cutting machine keystrokes Quaser MV 184 Indonesia by PT DI president director Budi Santoso and Chief Thomas Lapan Jamaladin, Tuesday, September 9 at Hangar last PT Indonesian Aerospace Machining, Bandung West Java, symbolically turn on the row of similar machines that have been prepared to print thousands of aircraft components this.
The first component is printed, the center post or bone the middle of the cockpit window, then presented to the audience and reporters. Chief Engineer N219, Palmana Banandhi reveal, aircraft structures hundred percent smaller body Nations Children's work will consist of five thousand types of components, and all will be done in DI. He is optimistic the two prototypes will be completed before the end of 2015, and will soon be certified the feasibility of flying in 2016.
For DI, the manufacture of this aircraft is a moment that is very eagerly awaited. Because, since the design was introduced in the 2000s, news about making sure not go by because the absence of a budget. The new problem is solved after Lapan proposed the concept of win-win solutions through its authority as an aerospace R & D institutions. SBY government agreed poured Rp 400 billion in fiscal year 2014-15, especially after Lapan undertakes 40 percent of this plane is local content.
"The work we have showered on the Aviation Technology Center recently established. But because they do not have sufficient expertise, technical implementation is subcontracted to DI. Through this partnership was further we can learn a lot how to design aircraft. Expert Pustekbang himself quite intense conducting tests in the wind tunnel facility and testing laboratory construction Lapan BPPT in Serpong, Tangerang, "the story of Drs. Bambang S. Tedjasukmana, Dipl.Ing, to Space, years ago when it was still the head of Lapan.
In addition to the entire frame and plate to print their own skin in the DI, a variety of local industries is said to have been contacted to participate in the manufacture of window glass, avionics, landing gear, seats, and even radar. DI myself have opted for the Garmin G1000 avionics N219, but for further development it is also possible to include local industries such as PT Infoglobal Universe Technology of Surabaya.
"N219 is the foundation for the rise of technology in Indonesia. For this first stage we can contract manufacture of ECU to flap controller and simulator. Hopefully in the next step we could engage more, "said Managing Director of ITS, Adi Saso.
Competing with the Twin Otter
2015 alone live a stone's throw. Will these aircraft be finished as promised? To Space, Technology and Development Director of DI, Dr. Andi Alisjahbana replied, "Why not?" He believes finished troublesome since no one in the making. Technology has been made as simple as possible. So simple, to the point that the aircraft is not only easy to fly, but also easily treated by technicians in the area. (Adrianus Darmawan)
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