MAKS aerospace show to start off in Zhukovsky near Moscow

ZHUKOVSKY, Moscow region, August 16 (Itar-Tass) - MAKS'2011 aerospace
show starts off in the town of Zhukovsky southeast off Moscow Tuesday.
The jubilee tenth show is likely to become the most representative one
since 1993 when the first aerospace show was held in Zhukovsky.
More than 200 civilian and military aircraft have landed in the
airdrome of the Mikhail Gromov Flight Research Institute, and more than a
hundred of them are expected to make demonstration flights as part of the
show's program.
In the commercial aviation section, the real gems of the show are the
A380 airbus and the first machine of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner family.
The A380 has been entered in the demonstration flights program.
The aerobatic section of the show promises to be quite breathtaking.
It includes performance of the Sokoly Rossii /Russian Falcons/ and
Russkiye Vityazi /Russian Knights/ aerobatic groups on the Su-27 fighter
jets, and the Strizhi /Swifts/ group on the MIG-29's.
The program also features an exercise of the Latvian aerobatic group
The Baltic Bees.
Officials in the directorate of the show told Itar-Tass only
specialists will be admitted to the MAKS during the first three days and
the general public is invited to visit the Gromov Institute airdrome as of
Friday, August 19.
The program of demonstration flights will be especially dense on the
days of general public admittance and will last from 11:00 hrs to 17:00
hrs.