Originally Posted by
El Bunto
I can only assume it was a list of 'Design aspects to avoid'.
The whole episode seems quite odd. The Soviets were quite capable of building efficient airframes which could operate from -40 to +50 Celsius but where they had problems was with long-life, efficient engines. I would have expected them to be sniffing around P&W Canada rather than an airframer in the UK.
I (and many others) have long suspected that it had more to do with the Nimrod than the ATP, hence my earlier comment. Of course, the IL-114 appeared later, but who's to know that they weren't already designing something along those lines anyway?