俄罗斯在航空领域有竞争力吗?

Unique and iconic: the Concorde. Millions of passengers along with envious spectators fell in love with it, as they flew faster than the speed of sound. Supersonic start-demo inspired Russia to make its own. The Tupolev TU-144, or the Concordski, debuted at the Paris Air Show in 1973, but crashed due to structural failure.

They may not have been successful with their version of the Concorde, but the Russians are most certainly making their presence felt in the mid-range market like Sukhoi with its Superjet 100. Flying for the first time at this year's Farnborough Air show, Sukhoi, which is 25% owned by the Italian group Finmeccanica, announced new customers from outside Eastern Europe, with Orient Thai Airlines ordering 12 Superjet 100s, Indonesian Airline Kartika and Bermuda-based leasing company Pearl both ordering 30.

...military spheres, we have a good position in the market, and we think in the future, we will have a good position in the civil market, facing Embraer and Bombardier.

An ambitious statement, and it has to be. When you look at the order books of its competitors: Bombardier in Canada has sold 90 of its new CSeries, Embraer in Brazil has more than 800 orders for its 170 and 190 aircrafts, with China waiting in the wings to make a new airliner.

But the timing is terrible.

I mean, they are up against some of the very best - the Boeing and Airbus, and some of the other contenders can do. And if this does not go well, then what? You know, they’re backed by the joint board with decades again to develop a new aircraft by which time other people will have developed aircraft.

The Russians could have the Irkut MC-21 to fall back on. That will compete at the Airbus and Boeing level.

The difficulty the Russians have is that even if they build aircraft which are about as good as everybody else's, unfortunately, they have no reputation at all for customer support, for the reliability and the maintainability of their products. But can Russian companies really support it over the years? Because that is what executives lose sleep about. And that's, in the end, that's the difference between profitability and not.

Faced with the challenge of changing global perception of Russian aircraft, it is Brazil, Canada and China who pose the real threat to breaking the duopoly between Airbus and Boeing.

Ayesha Durgahee, cnn, at the Farnborough Air show.