Thank you for this video. This is the best non-academic explaination about a commercial jet engine I've come across. Congratulations to Russia and to you.

Today we'll meet the Russian competitor of the P&W1100G and CFM LEAP. Hope, you'll like the story)

For someone who has waited for so long (Russian engine), honestly and admirably thanks you.

The best explanation of a commercial jet engine I have seen.

Russia has long history working with titanium, like making whole submarines out of it.

This video sure did eliminate my doubts about Russian engineering. I have a USAF background and we often found Russian fighter jets crude, (nevertheless effective!) especially in the earlier combat aircraft. Clearly, Russia has made great progress in that regard. The video shows the engines are truly a piece of fine art. Please keep these great videos coming. This one was one of the best I have seen.

Ok, I'm sold. Definitely want to take a flight on one of these planes.

Wow. This a serious engine. Congratulations

I love the charm of the Russian presentation. The grammatical and syntactic errors, and the interesting Russian colloquialism translations are often rather cute. I am wondering if the guy in the videos is the same guy doing the narration? I think not, as I suspect he would actually speak in English to the camera if he could. It is great to get a different perspective on the aircraft industry and aviation history as a whole, separate from US self-aggrandizement or UK nostalgia for better days gone by. Nobody in the US would ever talk about the Russian (Soviet) industry in a positive way, let alone with so much detail. You have opened up a whole new world for me. Keep up the good work and do not change anything!

Frankly it is refreshing to hear a Russian being proud of native designs as Russians in general are very self deprecating and tend to berate themselves. That or you get the "invented in RUSSIA!" types. Hell I even like those types more than the ones who berate their own people and their abilities. One of the few good things about the interwebs is that it gives the ability to cut through propaganda and horseshit from all sides if you are willing to put a bit of effort. Good work!

THIS IS A VERY GOOD DOCUMENTARY WORTH WATCHING ..As a Engineer it was fascinating to discover the work methodology of this Russian JET engine factory. For those who may not be familiar, working with titanium is extremely difficult because the metal is very hard and difficult to machine but it does have other desirable qualities: For example LIGHTNEES AND STRENGTH and it can be anodised which surely would help in its battle with corrosion ... which is, perhaps, the reason it can handle volcanic emissions! Putting politics on one side, the West should consider purchasing the MC21 with this engine. as It does look as though it's a real bargain. And if airlines do Airbus will have to reduce its prices which will mean lower prices for passenger end users. ALL GOOD! I really appreciated the honesty ... like fuel economy but I'm sure that that parameter will improve in stages and within a few years this engine will be on par with anything seen in the West. ANYWAY GOOD LUCK AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL THE HARD WORKING ENGINEERS., (AND EVERYONE ELSE), working at this factory.. GREAT TEAM!

I watched the whole video. Thank you. Russian aeronautics is rising up again

Nice video about PD-14 main engine for aviation action produced by Russia 🇷🇺 👌 👍 👏👏👏👏

Once again, I'm really impressed. Russian engineering at its finest 👌

Brilliant, I really enjoyed this, love Russian engineering and hope this engine is a great success.

This is becoming my new favorite channel. Can't wait for the Izdeliye 30

Skyships, Very good presentation, thank you for your effort. As a retired engineer, I greatly appreciated the design choices made with this engine, a good balance of practicality and efficiency. It looks like Airbus and Boeing will soon have serious competition in this airliner size. The Chinese are pushing to develop competitive airliners. Let’s hope Russian industry fills this role and not China. Good luck.

Great to see Russia pursuing it`s own small jet to compete with A320/B737, plus this development of a home-grown engine which looks terrific. I think they are correct not to go to technical extremes, rather concentrate on what they can do relatively easily & perhaps ease into more cutting edge techniques ( geared fans & carbon blades ) with further experience. I wish these engineers & others concerned good fortune & look forward to seeing MC-21 being exported around the globe.

The most excellent aviation information channel ever! edit: the work you put into these Documentaries is jaw dropping for real, the quality is second to none even if you compare your videos with Real Engineering or Veritasium etc, this is amazing work i can't honestly think how many 10s of hours you put into a single video

Great Video, superb Engine. Good luck with the MC-21, I hope to fly this bird one day

Right now, only GE (and CFM) are making use of carbon fiber epoxy to make fan blades. Rolls Royce and Pratt&Whitney are still using metal alloys. The Aviadvigatel's PD-14 isn't at any particularly big disadvantage there.

Great documentary, I learned a lot. Looking forward to the future of Russian Jet manufacturing.

Today, 28.12.2021 MC-21 with PW-1000 was fully certified. We are waiting its certification with PD-14!

being 'merican and pedantic, i believe this is by most referred to as a turbofan. you pointed out its competitors had troubles and showed images of the cs110/a220 and its pw1500g which have not have more issues than any other evolutions and less than many others. also when talking about the size you showed a clip of an a330(?) with its large trent (7000?) which has blades grown as a single crystal but are metal and not composite and are huge! an incredible achievement from RR, i wish i could see more stuff from russia in the states! thank you sky for sharing, they can grow the bypass in the future, many others have done this through their variants/iterations

Legit the first plane/engine combination from Russia I'd consider flying regularly. Looks good.

Thanks again Sky for this master piece of information; must be a very hard material to make, very complex, very complete... thanks very much! And Enzo was right (of course) the engine is the "Core part" around of which the rest of the vehicle is created... :) This is specially true on airliners. If the PD-14 program succeed, the future of the Russian aviation industry promises. Keep going please. All the best for you guys.

I've learned far more watching your videos than I have watching any others, and been thoroughly entertained as well. Truly remarkable. Thanks very much.

Outstanding. This video is one of your finest yet. Thoroughly enjoyed this. 👏

Do the PW geared turbofan next. I always find the engines fascinating, working on industrial turbines all my life. Great content and pretty thorough research which shows in the narrative. Keep it up.

I absolutely enjoyed this video. Your content just gets better with time.

Wow! I don't even understand half of the things discussed in the video but I'm super pumped to see this engine. More manufacturers means more progress ( including safety) in the jet engine field which would ultimately benefit airline passengers like us. Good luck to the manufacturer's and hopefully someday this would be added to Rolls Royce and Pratt and Whitney as engine options for Boeing and Airbus.

Well done on very informative video. I'm pleased to see Russian Civil Aviation advancing with modernize engines and aircraft.

Being involved with the development of many R-R aero engine types for over 40 years I found your video very interesting. Thanks, and keep the good work. 👍🏼

Fantastic documentary on this wonderful engine, and aircraft!

Fantastic analysis... really over the top. Well done!

You did a great job with researching and presenting on this video. Thank you so much for the knowledge!

This engine makes perfect sense for a country which is self-sufficient in, indeed a major exporter of, hydrocarbons. Any slight efficiency penalty is more than offset by acquisition cost, and more importantly strategic, considerations. Well done Russia.

Thanks for the video. Nice to see a little insight of what is happening in Russia. As I only have been working on western jet engines.

Honestly, this video is one of the best-probably the best-short documentary about civil jet turbofan engines that I’ve ever watched. You packed so much information into it, and explained everything in a way that even a total layperson can understand. Well done!

Appreciate as always, the depth of technical detail you go into. Hard to find anywhere. Thanks BTW. I have worked as a development design engineer all over the planet. The most underrated, at least in the US, are Russian designers and engineers. Propaganda at its best. Of all the tech pros I work with. The smoothest and most critical thinking, not to mention the humor and companionship, comes from my Russian counterparts. Kudos

Excellent,! I used to work at IAE (International Aero Engines AG), maker of the V2500 series turbofans. The engineers told me all I needed to know about how a jet engine works is “suck, squeeze, bang, blow.” Very fine video.

Very good and well informed video. Being blacklisted from US, Russian commercial aviation was pushed by western nations to creates it own engine and composite wings from scratch for they long awaiting MC 21. Now we have to see if their production can be equal or better than PW or CFM. A huge challenge by Russians and a potential competitor ???

Top notch video! How do you get into so much detail and make it understandable as well? It's a gift...

This is a really in depth video regarding a turbofan engine development, and even beyond. Engine development is the hardest thing to pull off even though it may look quite easy yo achieve. To achieve this 100% within Russia is amazing, considering that it can't be crippled by sanctions from USA which can happen anytime. The main issue Russia always had is after sales support. Hopefully that also has been overhauled like the entire manufacturing process.

we need the PD18 as well asap. Then the old PS90A series of engines can be replaced. This is needed for the il-78, il-78, tu-204, tu-214, il-96 etc etc. Great video, information not found elsewhere in the west :)

Great explanation of all this engine building area, thanks!

More impressive technology created by Russia. Many people say that Russia is bad at making things but the reality is that Russia is a world leader with many things - titanium being one such thing. It's good to see a country coming together to create this new engine system. It will have many bonus things such as the new gas transmission power plants as shown near the end of the video. Well done everyone!

Nice video 👍,Please make a video on the MiG 21

A great job, Mr. Skyships. I really enjoy your videos. Merry Christmas

USA: we didn't allowed you sell this plane, because it have more that 10% of our parts, including engine and wings. Russia: ok! (make own engine and wings) USA: surprised pickachu face

In 2006, an agreement was signed on the creation of a new engine, which was named PD-14 (a promising engine with a thrust of 14 tons). PD-14 is a fifth generation turbofan engine developed for MC-21-300 aircraft, PD-14A for MC-21-200, PD-14M for MC-21-400. PD-8 engine will be installed on the Be-200, AN-148 and Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft. Therefore, the designers and engineers were faced with the task of creating a unified gas generator, which is the main element of the engine. 16 new technologies were developed for PD-14 by russian designers, engineers and scientists, namely - single-crystal blades for a high-pressure turbine with an advanced cooling system that allows the turbine to operate at temperatures up to 2000 ° K.; hollow wide fan blade made of titanium alloy, thanks to which it was possible to increase the efficiency of the fan stage by 5% in comparison with the fourth-generation turbofan engine PS-90 produced in the USSR in the late 1980s; low-emission combustion chamber made of intermetallic alloy; sound-absorbing structures made of composite materials; ceramic coatings on hot parts; hollow blades of a low-pressure turbine, etc. 20 new materials were created for PD-14 with indisputable advantages: a decrease in specific fuel consumption by 10-15%, a reduction in the life cycle cost by 15-20%; operation of the engine will cost 14-17% cheaper than existing analogues. All of them have been certified according to international standards. New Russian titanium and nickel alloys are used to create the engine. The engine nacelle design consists of 65% of domestic polymer composites, which achieves the required level of sound insulation and reduces engine weight. The technologies used in the production of PD-14 are state secrets and are protected. Therefore, information on PD-14 is largely classified. Example: China would gladly copy production technologies, by analogy with the Su-27. They copied the plane, but they failed to replicate AL-31F engine. The PD-14 project, in addition to creating the engine itself, includes the most important element - the provision of after-sales service. A large amount of work is planned in this area: the creation of a support center with round-the-clock work 365 days a year, the opening of a network of field offices, engine service stations, ensuring the replacement of modules in operation. It is expected that this all together should increase the foreign prospects of the new Russian engine. The state's ability to produce cooled cast blades for a modern turbine aircraft engine is an indicator of the highest level of development in mechanical engineering. There are fewer states capable of producing fifth generation aircraft turbojet engines than countries with nuclear weapons or those that launch satellites into space. Only four countries - Great Britain, Russia, USA and France - possess full-cycle technologies for creating engines.

Engines are much harder to develop than aircraft. A good engine then powers many different models, typically. For historical references, look at aircraft powered by the piston Pratt and Whitney R2800 and GE J-57 turbojet. The R2800 powered the Grumman Hellcat, Republic Thunderbolt, Vought Corsair, Curtiss Commando, Northrop Black Widow, and Martin Marauder among others.

I'm very excited to see the potential for these to make their way onto foreign operators.

Looks great, finest engineering. One more international quality product of Russian aero engine technology. Very impressive, in spite of sensless unjustified sanctions.

Thanks for an interesting overview that didn't rely on company advertising hype, nationalism and propaganda to show that the engine is a good product and that the engineers, universities and supply chain made great improvements in their technical capacity.

Good to have more competition! Great video on the engine!

Sky properly pronouncing "Eyjafjallajökull" is the icing in this двигател cake. Excited to see new engine models from other countries too, to make the market even more diverse for customers. Naturally the next challenge for OAK and ODK is long-term and after-sales support. Thankfully they could probably look at how their Chinese counterparts and fareing on this, and perhaps improve on the matter.

It is wonderful to see and I hope the effort succeeds brilliantly. Already Russian aviation technology is reclaiming the position it should have had since the 90s.

I just stumbled upon video and checked out channel. Looks like bright future is there

I like to see this nation getting back into engine development. After all, it used to be in the forefront in this field. And given time it sure might become again. However route of lower bypass designers took is slightly disappointing. I understand the conservative approach at this time, but still hope for bit more experimental approach. And its not like this nation doesn't have some rough gems laying dormant. Best of luck i guess.

I love how he compliments the workers and engineers of these objects. He sounds so proud no matter what country or company it is. We need more international-oriented thinking like this.

Well done Russia! The achievements of Russian technology are positive for world progress! Thanks for the interesting video from Rome.

Now a fan with woven carbon fiber is being developed for the new engine ... Since the PD-35 stand (but there is already a gas generator), large-scale models of the new fan are being tested at the PD-14 stand ... so it is likely that a carbon fiber fan will appear on the PD -14 in the near future ...

Hope that this fantastic project wil go from strengh to strengh......great video....best wishes from UK .

For the MC-21 to succeed, UAC has to build a robust support mechanism to prop up the launch customers. Start out regionally like in Asia, move to Africa & Latin America and the rest will follow. The developing markets need affordable aircraft and can barely afford what Boeing & Airbus offer.

Russian kit's always impressive 👍

Titanium blades are stronger, and Russia has the resources to use it without any dramas.

Sky always produces highly professional aviation documentaries! Thank you.

Excellent presentation, highly informative, and very interesting for a designer of model jet engines.

Great video and explanation of how it all works

Make a video for when the MC 21 finally gets delivered to an airline.

Impressive Russian Technology

I'm guessing the Pratt & Whitney engines aren't being offered anymore. 😕

The video is so good - watched it in English as well as in Russian

¡Gracias / Spasiva!.

Really good learning experience .Thank you

This is a really good video! 8:39 it's better described as a turbofan. I know that's what you meant to say.

I have been regular visitor of Dubai Air Show until 2007. Airbus 380 was displayed there for first time with Emirate painted on it. New engine seams promising, with wider and not too big first turbine blades, like Trident. Looks like it will achieve all the power at competitively lower RPM.

beautifully presented, great photography and pleasant music. Russian aero technology at its best

I don't cheer for Russia very often. But since Im addicted to commercial aviation, I would love nothing more than to see this plane succeed. (Wish it had a yolk on each side instead of sidesticks)

As always nice video !!

You make some Great and Enjoyable Videos - Thank-you !!!

Brilliant russian engineers are vital, among many others, to keep their country as a leader in military technology to protect it from agressions like currently from NATO... Even if Russia's military budget is only 10% of the US' one... Amazing

Really plaisant of watching your documentery

Great job Russia 🇷🇺 congratulations

Very well made and a lot of information - Congratulations and keep on the good work!!

Wonderful presentation of a successful example of import substituation displaying necessity is the mother of invention taking advantage of modern technology. ... Cheers...

Great video! 👍

фантастическая по объёму работа, молодцы!

cool video. more competition will lead to better more efficient engines

Skyships is a very cool and personable channel! Well done!

Hopefully they will be able to compete against the duopoly, certainly in the home market.

most impressive

Не думал, что у иностранцев такой интерес к нашим разработкам

Amazing pronounciation of Eyjafjallajökull ! Cheers from Iceland 🇮🇸

Great video!

Very informative and funny, mostly because of You. 8.5 that's means PD14 is a engine of future. Thank You so much. May I ask a specialist like You? What do You think about that Finland did order 64 F35.

Amazing thank you ❤️ 💪🏿

Good work Russia you are bringing back the engineering Marvel's of ussr its difficult to build a new engine with no year's of experience good work

I'm really hoping for Russian plane industry to stand up. I love old ils and antonovs and seeing new planes in boeing-airbus duapol.