FLIGHT PROGRAM

      Static display at MAKS 2009 is divided in two parts. In zone B on concrete takeoff and landing strip 1 is a station for civil and military aircrafts and helicopters with take-off weight of more than 3 tons. Here you can see aircrafts and helicopters, read the history of their creation and their technical and strategic characteristics, get firsthand information from developers and operators, and also visit cabins of aircrafts and helicopters, sit in pilot seat and observe control panels of flying vehicles.

      In zone C is a station of general aviation aircrafts and helicopters with take-off weight not more than 3 tons, and also exotic flying vehicles created by aviation lovers. Here visitors can communicate with real aviation fans, who do their best to create their amazing flying vehicles. 

      Also in zone C on the left from check point 3 is zone for balloons, where visitors of MAKS 2009 can see flying machines that are lighter than air, and conduct familiarization flight on captive balloon to take a magnificent bird's-eye view over the whole exhibition territory.

      During MAKS 2009 visitors will be able to watch demonstration flights conducted by pilots on best Russian and foreign flying vehicles.

      Over the exhibition territory at low level flights of Russian and foreign large civil cargo and passenger aircrafts and helicopters will be organized. Hydro-airplanes of MES will demonstrate their abilities to realize fire-fighting operations - they will draw water from the nearby flowing Moskva river and blow it out to specified place of probable fire, situated close to display territory.

      Best pilots of Russian Design Office centers will demonstrate aerobatic flights and sky acrobatics on new modern fighters of 4th and 5th generations, which are equipped with turbine-powered engines with changeable thrust vector.
Aerobatics on fighter Rafal will be demonstrated by pilots of French Air Force.
Flights of retro-aircrafts will be also demonstrated.

      Skydivers will demonstrate free-fall jumps with elements of group air-acrobatics in the sky on the accuracy of landing in the circle with diameter of less than 1 meter.

      Program of flights always attracts interest and impresses visitors and each flight usually ends with a great tornado of applause.

      Shows of aerobatic teams, which demonstrate well-coordinated flights of several aircrafts in flying formations and group aerobatic performance, are invariably admired by all visitors of the Aviation Salon.

      At MAKS 2009 best aerobatic teams of Russia will perform with new exciting programs: Sokoly Rossii (Russian Falcons) on aircrafts Su-27, Su-24 and Strizhi (Swifts) on fighters MiG-29 - members of the Center of Aviation Technics Demonstration n.a. Kozhedub located at the airfield Kubinka near Moscow.

      Aerobatic team Sokoly Rossii (Russian Falcons) that was created on the base of Lipetsk Aviation Center of Tactical Employment and Retraining of Aircrew will show group, pair and single flying programs on aircrafts Su-27, Su-24 and MiG-29. They will conduct several variants of demonstrational air fights: 1 vs. 5, 2 vs. 2 etc., and also show their specialty - «tactical wing» that consists of 11 fighters.

      At MAKS 2009 visitors will have a chance to see performances of foreign aerobatic teams: Italian Frecce Tricolori will perform in group of 9 light training jet aircrafts Aermacchi MB-339, French Patrouille de France - in group of 8 light training jet aircrafts AlfaJet.

      All flights will be conducted to loud music of classical composers and smoke generators will produce colored smoke (white, blue, green, red - as on state flags of participant countries) and create fanciful designs and figures in the sky (for example heart speared with an arrow). In windless weather these figures usually stay in the sky over MAKS territory for a long time.