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MAKS 2009 about to kick offhttp://www.russiatoday.ru/Top_News/2009-08-18/maks-superjet-plane-exhibition.html/print 18 August, 2009, 10:38 Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, is expected to arrive to MAKS exhibition by helicopter to officially open the country’s main air show. This year the show will be opened with a minutes silence after a midair tragedy, involving two SU-27 fighter jets, over the weekend. The “Russian Knights” aerobatics team squadron leader Igor Tkachenko was killed in the collision, and the team will not be performing its routine at this years show. However, the world’s leading aerobatics groups, including Russia’s ‘Falcons’ and ‘Swifts’, Italy’s Frecce Tricolore (Tricolor Arrows), and Patrouille de France (French Patrol) will be performing. There will be over 700 stands of Russian and foreign companies at the exhibition, with leading aircraft and parts manufacturers displaying their latest developments and wares. “Historic legacy of Russian space accomplishment is unparalleled”Among them is the joint venture Excalibur Almaz that is preparing to open space to the public. Artur Dula, the CEO of the private space exploration company, says his start up has brought a spacecraft to the exhibition, capable of carrying three persons into orbit. “Our capsule has flown two times in experimental tests of our Russian contractor Mashinostroenie, one of the leading aerospace corporations of the world,” says Dula, “We will be using Russia technology already successfully tested in space. We expect to start flying in 2013 and our capsules are meant to be used again and again.” Russian producers will be unveiling a range of major improvements to their systems. These wont include new items but bits and pieces of weapons and aircrafts systems that will make them from 20% to 50% more effective than they have been in the past, according to Ruben F. Johnson of Aviation Week Show magazine in Washington D.C. who has visited all the worlds major air shows. Commenting on Russian plans to become the world’s third major aircraft manufacturer, Johnson said that Russia should “start to build a lot of commercial airplanes because that is what makes Boeing and Airbus number one and number two.”
“Superjet shows the strength of Russia’s aviation industry and clearly there is a great deal of international capital here. In 5-15 years we fully expect to see some competition come from another country, Russia or China,” Boeing's Marketing Vice President Randy Tinseth said to RT. Superjet to make a name at MAKS 2009Russian commercial airliner production is being spearheaded by the Sukhoi Superjet. The first post soviet airliner designed and constructed in Russia will be on display. Even with a price tag of $30 million there's already a waiting list including international air companies lining up to order. “The crisis will be, sooner or later, over, and then you can expect that we will see strong demand for new aircraft, in particular in that sector where Superjet is established,” says EC industry commissioner Gunther Verheugen. Sukhoi's first foray into civil aviation, its technical characteristics, fuel economy and quiet engines fully meet modern regional passenger market needs. The plane incorporates work by Russian, Italian, French and German engineers. Next year the company is planning to produce 20 jets, eventually rising to 70 a year. The star of this year's MAKS air show has already been tested in extreme temperatures and extreme situations.
Those who've flown the plane say it doesn't take a top gun to fly it. Its creators hope to take a 5% share in global civil aviation, leaving other regional passenger planes high and dry. Antonov Design Bureau to present new stages of An-70, An-124, An-124, An-148 programs realized jointly with Russiahttp://www.kyivpost.com/business/47101 Today, 11:53 | Interfax-Ukraine Kyiv, August 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Kyiv-based Antonov Design Bureau is to present new stages and directions of programs, which are realized jointly with Russian partners, at the MAKS 2009 international aerospace show to take place in Zhukovsky on August 18-23, 2009. The bureau's press service told Interfax-Ukraine that a successful result of joint activities with Voronezh joint-stock aircraft building company (VASO) is a first regional new generation jet An-148-100V built at the VASO's production facilities. The jet is a basic model of the new An-148/-158/-168 family. The bureau said that a total of 126 Russian companies are engaged in the creation of the jets and over 28,000 jobs have been created in the country. High results and a wide range of capabilities of the family jets are linked to rich experience of companies-partners along with advance world's technologies. The press service said that the first Ukrainian An-148 started flying in June and AeroSvit-Ukrainian Airlines used it on regional routes. In two months, the aircraft made 150 flights and carried some 8,000 passengers. Apart from the basic 65-85 passenger An-148, designs of a 99-passenger An-158 aircraft and An-168 comfort airliner would be exhibited. By now, the number of applications received from aircraft exploiters from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan to buy the An-148/-158/-168 family aircraft exceeded 170, the press service said. The bureau said that among programs presented at the exhibition is the 50-passenger An-140, operating on regional routes. In June, the An-140 aircraft built at a Samara-based aviation plant belonged to Yakutia Company set a 350-hour flying record. In August, Yakutia plans to receive its third An-140 under a leasing agreement, Antonov Design Bureau said. Another important joint project presented at the MAKS 2009 show is the An-70 military and transport aircraft. "The share of Russian companies in the program reaches 80%. Today, tests of the aircraft are being finished and its production would be launched," the bureau said. Antonov Design Bureau said that meetings and talks aimed atthe resumption of production of upgraded heavy transport An-124-100 Ruslan – An-124-100M-150 with the carrying capacity of 150 tonnes are scheduled to hold during the show. "Services of the aircraft are of great demand all over the world. Only in H1, 2009 Ruslans of Russian and Ukrainian airlines carried over 52,500 tonnes of various cargos," the press service said. The press service said that the bureau plans to discuss other directions of its joint work with Russian partners. VEB, Ilyushin Finance seal deal on plane construction financing http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14243710&PageNum=0 ZHUKOVSKY, Moscow region, August 18 (Itar-Tass) - Vnesheconombank and Ilyushin Finance Co. have signed an agreement to finance the construction and lease of 70 planes. The parties plan to cooperate in investing promising programs of Ilyushin Finance Co. (IFC) and in developing sales strategies for Russian aircraft, including An-148-100B planes, both on the domestic and foreign markets with the use of leasing and export financing mechanisms. “The agreement of intentions stipulates the financing of around 70 different planes,” said IFC director-general Alexander Rubtsov. “I hope that within the framework of this agreement state-run air carrier GTK Rossiya will get its first plane already this year.” He stressed that contracts for 45 planes for Atlant Soyuz air carrier has already been fixed. VEB president Vladimir Dmitriyev said in turn the state corporation “is interested in cooperating with the IFC in aircraft supplies with the use of leasing mechanisms on the domestic and foreign markets.” GTK Rossiya will get six planes from the first batch of An-148, he said. The supplies are estimated at around 3 billion roubles.
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