Sukhoi Select Pace for Cabin, Engine Passes First Test Run

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC), a subsidiary of the Sukhoi Aircraft Manufacturing Holding, purchased Pacelab Cabin to promote the sales of its Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional jet family. The cabin configuration tool by software provider PACE enables cabin engineers to rapidly create validated and...

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Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC), a subsidiary of the Sukhoi Aircraft Manufacturing Holding, purchased Pacelab Cabin to promote the sales of its Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional jet family. The cabin configuration tool by software provider PACE enables cabin engineers to rapidly create validated and optimized layout alternatives for what-if scenarios or competitive analysis. Pacelab Cabin will be used by SCAC's Customer Engineering department to develop customer-specific cabin layouts that take full advantage of the SSJ100's extended cabin space and five-abreast-seat configuration. "The high comfort level of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 is one of our key competitive advantages, and Pacelab Cabin helps us to fully utilize this asset since alternative layouts can be compared and revised as you go,” said Dmitry Vertikhin, cabin customization specialist at SCAC. “We expect to implement significant time savings in the overall process by integrating Pacelab Cabin software into our existing CAD and PDM systems so that all affected departments within the company will speak the same language.”
The software streamlines the layout process by largely automating the modeling and positioning of cabin interior items, while constantly checking and assuring compliance with certification regulations and user-defined rules of arrangement. Pacelab Cabin is applicable to a wide range of aircraft from corporate jets to multi-deck long-haul vehicles.
PACE, with offices in the U.S., Germany, and France, develops knowledge based engineering software aimed at accelerating complex engineering processes. By providing intelligent information technology, PACE helps its customers in the aerospace and automotive industries to increase their productivity and competitiveness. These include Airbus, Air France, Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Bombardier, Embraer, Emirates, ESG, Eurocopter, Rolls-Royce, Snecma and Sukhoi.

SaM146 Passes First Engine Run
As part of the first flight preparation campaign, the Sukhoi Superjet 100 with SaM146 engines installed on its wing has passed the first successful engine run. The engine test was on the SSJ100 in Komsomolsk-On-Amur Aircraft Manufacturing Association (KnAAPO) and followed power plant and APU tests in addition to systems checks such as fuel, hydraulics, air conditioning, electrical, avionics and fire protection. The engine-aircraft systems software interface had been tested at the “Electronic Bird” integration bench at SCAC Design Center in Moscow.
On the eve of the engine-run trials, on February 18, 2008 – SaM146 completed the first part of the test campaign aboard the IL-76 test bench (Gromov Flight Research Institute), having confirmed all expected performance objectives essential for the first flight.