Jet with Brazilian technology comes hard on the world market – Globo.com

One of the most modern aircraft in the world, the Legacy 500, Embraer, received on Tuesday the approval can now be sold worldwide. The jet has technology that is found only in large airliners, and fully developed by engineers in Brazil.

The panel of the cockpit of the jet has ultramodern domestic manufacturing. Costs about $ 50 million, the price a thousand popular cars well equipped.

What can be seen is very luxury and comfort, exclusive of a jet to reach a few people. A technological effort that makes it possible for a product developed in Brazil to be competitive worldwide.

The people factor, I would say it is the differential Embraer because that’s where all knowledge, is the investment in training people and teams “

stated Ciro Tokasiki, technical head of the project

The jet seems to do things alone. Even in the hands and feet of the pilot, the commands are executed by computers that receive electrical signals from the cabin and transform them into commands for actuators that act in various systems.’s called ” fly by wire “, the English” Flight by Wire. “

The Legacy 500 was created as a computer program. In other words, it was designed from the digital simulation would be possible for a class engineers willing to join pure research to an industrial project.

Fabrício Boilers is one of four thousand Embraer engineers, and formed within it.

“It is very difficult to give a step and make the first airplane with Flight by Wire complete system. It takes years for you to acquire that experience, and to stop this technology involves several areas. Have to understand the control of the control system to generate algorithms that interpret the inputs of the pilot and turn into software. And you have to understand systems architecture. Even after failures of computers, we have sufficient redundancy within the system to see the plane flying safely, “says Fabricio Boilers, development engineer.

We added some computers, but the computer that was added into our philosophy was not the computer to replace the pilot. So I keep running that same thing a pilot flying club and do acrobatics, and now I’m still controlling the plane “

says Commander Louzada, chief pilot test in flight

The Flight by Wire, sensor technology, computers and software to control an airplane, there ready to be purchased.

“So, when the We decided to make this plane, we studied all systems by Flight Full Wire that existed in the market. We understood how was the philosophy of each manufacturer and we decided to create Embraer philosophy, the philosophy that is different from the other manufacturers, “explains engineer Fabricio boilers.

The debate is as philosophical as technological, commercial and flight safety: who rules over the plane, the pilot or the computer

For the first time, this technology is offered in a jet business aviation, midsize. Thanks to national technology, the airplane promises to be lighter, cheaper and more advanced than the competitors.

“We have invested heavily in automation programs in order to make the very competitive product. In the case of Legacy 500, for example, have developed. Every plane is developed in a 3D digital environment. I save cycle and I gain competitiveness. 25% to 30% in the assembly and cycle at least 5% to 10% in cost, “says Marco Tulio Pellegrini, president of Embraer.

In the test flight, São Paulo was downstairs in an afternoon high pollution. The landing took place in the relatively short and narrow runway at Campus Martius. The first all-new jet. The pilots knew, long before, that would not be the slightest problem.