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>In 2009, a person appeared on an aviation forum with a question about whether an American turboprop engine could work mounted upside down. People were surprised, but gave him some advice. When people started asking the author why the fuck he needed this, they were shocked that the person works at SibNIIA, wants to build airplanes,
My sides, this is even worse than i expected kek
This shit reads straight like a "swap a $500 ls1 into your shitbox in an afternoon" pasta, only not $500 but 4 billions, not an ls1 but a discontinued Lada engine and not an afternoon but fucking decades

>Based on that, I think it might take a lot more than a decade.
Yeah, the decade was the low estimate,without even taking the "corrupt shithole" problems into account
The fun shit is that the Baikal project is still ongoing and it recently turned out that they fucked up some calculations and the plane will need a twice as long runway as planned, making it not viable for most landing strips it was supposed to operate from, so they want another 10 billion rubles and 5 years to fix it
The situation is so bad that Solovyev sperged out about it in his shop calling the designers to be shot kek