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17 mai 2005

Russia, Boeing to partner for new aircraft

MOSCOW. May 17 (Interfax) - Boeing has included the Russian aviationindustry as a partner in the creation of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner,the U.S. company's regional president for Russia and theCommonwealth of Independent States Sergei Kravchenko saw in Moscow.Boeing's construction center in Moscow, which employs around onethousand Russian engineers, is now working on designing the plane'snose section and bridge, Kravchenko said. Russian engineers at thecenter are also designing a cargo aircraft for transporting sectionsof the new plane's fuselage.Joint design work is underway on new technologies and testing onother construction elements is being done, Kravchenko reported. Acontract worth over $3 million has been clinched with the CentralAerodynamics Institute for setting up a center where practical anddynamics testing of Boeing 787 fuselage panels is to be done.Boeing is also working with the Russian Academy of Sciences underthe 787 program, along with the All-Russia Institute of AviationMaterials and other Russian organizations.

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