Photos: (Far left) The colorful domes of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow are illuminated in the night sky. BOEING (Above and top right) Boeing Design Center employees Sergey Sorokin, left, and Ekaterina Yankevich discuss a project; the Design Center in Moscow manages 1,200 engineers. ASSOCIATED PRESS (Bottom right) Russia supplies 35 percent of the titanium used by Boeing. BOEING NOVEMBER 2016 | 21 2 Russia and the CIS represent an emerging airplane market. —G rowing international traffic (expected to rise 4.8 percent annually) and an aging fleet in need of near 50 percent replacement will create demand for 1,170 new airplanes in the region over the next two decades, Boeing Current Market Outlook projects. Single-aisle jetliners will make up a majority of those orders, with 737 options having proved themselves in the region’s harsh weather, said Marty Bentrott, Commercial Airplanes vice president for sales in the Middle East, Russia and Central Asia. “The Next-Generation 737 has been terrific in terms of performance, for operating in cold weather,” Bentrott said. “Several airlines are already counted on to take the MAX—that will be the dominant airplane of choice.” 3 The Boeing Design Center in Moscow helps provide Boeing with 24-hour engineering. —B oeing places a high value on aerospace experience and innovation and has enlisted a team of 1,200 local engineers to work on Boeing airplanes. These engineers have shared in hundreds of projects involving the 737, 747, 767, 777 and 787, both passenger jets and freighters, and they currently are designing fuselage structures as well as leading and trailing wing edges for the 777X. Boeing Commercial Airplanes performs design work in the U.S. and Russia, making engineers available at all times over multiple time zones. “To move with the sun … is a critical feature of being a global operating company,” Allen said. 4 Russia provides 35 percent of the titanium used by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. — For nearly two decades, VSMPOAVISMA has supplied Boeing with titanium for the manufacture of airplane parts. As the world’s largest producer of titanium, it produces forgings for all Boeing jetliner models. In 2009, Boeing and VSMPO opened a joint venture, Ural Boeing Manufacturing, for the rough machining of titanium forgings that now benefit the 737, 777 and 787 programs. “VSMPO provides good quality and excellent economics for all titanium parts that we supply,” Kravchenko said. “We are very proud of the Ural Boeing Manufacturing joint venture, which soon will have almost 10 years of flawless operation.”
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