Aug. 26 – Fasten your seatbelts, because everything is set for Maks, the International Aviation and Space Salon, held in Zhukovsky, a town south-east of Moscow. The 2013 edition opens tomorrow and will close on September 1. The exhibition takes place every two years, and this year six Italian companies will take part in it: Koimpex, Elettronica, Finmeccanica, Agusta Westland, Selex Es, and Testori Aero Supply. Other participating companies come from Russia (575) and abroad (289), from 42 different countries. In the 2011 edition, held August 16-21, 600 exhibitors and over 650,000 visitors were registered. The event will take place at the Ramenskoye airfield, belonging to the Gromov Flight Research Institute. “The Maks – says the official website of the show, www.aviasalon.com – occupies a leadership position among the most important world aviation fora. The idea behind Maks is exposing to the world Russia’s high-tech and the opening of the internal market for joint ventures with foreign partners.” Tomorrow there will be the official opening of the exhibition, while on Aug. 28-29 the Maks will be open only to professionals, during the remaining three days the event will be open to the public.
Six Italian companies at the MAKS aerospace show
