After the announcement in February of this year of the postponement of the start of deliveries of new domestic long-range aircraft to 25-26 years, the information field raised many questions about the situation in the domestic aircraft industry, the reasons for the postponement and the industry's ability to technologically overcome the sanctions restrictions. Moreover, in the questions there was a lot of skepticism about the very possibility to start producing aircraft in a fully import-substituted form. Yes, the task is very complicated. Not everything works out the first time, and the deadlines, even taking into account the postponement, are very tight. And yet, despite the general disbelief in our own forces and developments, I remain in the camp of optimists. No one could have imagined that an army could overcome the Alps, but Suvorov did it.