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RUSSIA BECOMES BOEING 787 DREAMLINER CHIEF DESIGNING PARTNER

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MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is to be the principal partner for the United States' Boeing corporation in designing the new Boeing 787 Dremliner, Boeing international contacts vice-president and regional president for Russia and the CIS Sergei Kravchenko said at the Dreamliner show presentation on Monday.

"Hundreds of Russian engineers from the Moscow-based Boeing design center handle about 30% of designing the fuselage nose cone and about a third of the pylons of the Dreamliner. Half of them are made of composite materials," he said.

According to Kravchenko, Boeing has signed an over $3 million contract with the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) for making an experimental test bench for static and dynamic tests of life-size fuselage panels of the new plane.

"The Russian test bench will test eight fuselage panels of composites for the Boeing 787," he said.

The TsAGI facility will reproduce all the complicated load modes of the real fuselage in service, he said.

Within the Dreamliner program, Boeing also cooperates with the Russian Academy of Sciences and All-Russian Aviation Materials Institute (VIAM).

The advantage of Russia boasting unique intellectual potential in information technologies and research is the reason why Boeing cooperates with the Russian aviation industry for the Dreamliner, Kravchenko stressed.

The volume of the market of the Dreamliner, which is to replace the 767 model, is estimated at 3,500 planes in the next 20 years.

Russia-Boeing Dreamliner cooperation is underway within the framework of the agreement signed in November 2004 between the Russian Industry and Energy Ministry and the Boeing company.

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