MAKS-2007 air show opens near Moscow
MOSCOW, August 21 (RIA Novosti) - MAKS-2007, an aviation exhibition held every two years, will open Tuesday in the town of Zhukovsky, near the Russian capital.The organizers said over 540 Russian companies and at least 240 foreign firms from over 100 countries are participating in the air show this year.Major Russian aircraft manufacturers will exhibit their civilian and military aircraft as part of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), rather than as separate companies.UAC, which was formed in 2006 to help overcome the crisis in Russia's aircraft industry, incorporates many of the country's best-known aircraft builders, including Sukhoi, Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev, and other enterprises in the industry.