The Saturn/Lyulka AL-34 was an unbuilt
turboshaft/
turboprop engine for rotary and fixed-wing aircraft, proposed by the
Soviet Union in the early 1990s. In turboprop form, the engine was offered for light aircraft such as the
Sukhoi Su-86 eight-passenger business airplane,
the
Myasishchev M-101T Gzhel
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Operators
;
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business jet,
the
ROS-Aeroprogress T-101 Grach nine-passenger aircraft,
its derivative T-108 Zolotoy Orel nineteen-passenger aircraft,
and the Krunichev T-511 "AIST-M".
As a turboshaft, the AL-34 was proposed to power the
Mil Mi-54 and the
Kazan Ansat helicopters. The engine was also considered for unconventional aircraft such as the
Mil Mi-30
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tiltrotor aircraft,
and it was to be an auxiliary engine for powering the
boundary layer control system and air cushion on the
EKIP flying saucer (a
flying wing
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aircraft).
The AL-34 was one of the few engines to use a
recuperator to recover and reuse
waste heat from combustion.
The engine came in two versions. The AL-34-1 was an engine that produced in cruise conditions.
It weighed , which included a compact, recuperator. The AL-34-2 was a twin-configuration engine producing , weighing about , and using a common
gearbox in a single module.
In October 2000, Saturn/Lyulka confirmed that it was still developing the AL-34 engine in the power range, and it was working with
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on stationary powerplant applications.
The AL-34 would cost 200-240 thousand dollars, and it would require about 22 million dollars to complete development.
As late as January 2004, the engine was still being proposed for the T-511 "AIST-M" derivative of the
Krunichev T-411 Aist light utility aircraft.
However, the AL-34 never entered production.
Specifications
References
Citations
Bibliography
Plot of takeoff SFC vs. takeoff shp for shaft engines, Vick, 2013*
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