SONY DSC On Thursday, August 29, one of the halls of the MAKS press center was filled with energetic, emotional people, many of whom were in the uniform of military pilots - these were former and current test pilots who gathered for Test Day. SONY DSC Head of LII Evgeniy Pushkarsky explained: SONY DSC Traditionally, at MAKS, Thursday is declared Testers' Day, and on this day test pilots from all over Russia gather in the MAKS press center.

The program for the improved regional aircraft Il-114-300 was presented at the air show by the basic version - the Il-114 with Russian TV7-117SM engines, owned by the St. Petersburg NPP Radar-MMS. The first prototype of the Il-114-300 aircraft, intended for flight testing, is made from machine No. 0108, produced at the Tashkent aircraft plant in 1994, which was stored all these years at the Ilyushin LIiDB; now officially this version is called the “transitional version to the Il-114-300”.

The Black and Blues managed to extend their unbeaten streak to six rounds, beating Rotor-2 away with a score of 2:0. At the same time, it cannot be said that the first half of the confrontation with the outsider of the Center group of the PFL was a success for the Saturn players. On the contrary, they only had Radostev's shot from the penalty line hitting the post, while the Volgograd team created more dangerous chances.

In April 2020, flight tests of the promising turboprop engine (TVD) VK-800S should begin At the static parking lot of the current air show, an aircraft for local airlines (AL) L-410UVP-E20 is being demonstrated, which, instead of the right standard H80 engine from GE Aviation Chech, is equipped with a full-scale mock-up of the domestic theater VK-800S.

An accident involving a car and a train occurred on the Ramenskoye – Bronitsy section on the night of August 30. As the press service of the highway reported , the incident occurred on a section equipped with a light and sound alarm. At 1 a.m., the driver of a car violated traffic rules and drove onto the road. The locomotive crew, noticing the car, sounded the sound signals and applied emergency braking, but the distance was not enough to stop the train.

This morning (August 30), an Ural Airlines plane, which was flying from St. Petersburg to Khujand (Tajikistan), made an emergency landing at Yekaterinburg Koltsovo airport. According to preliminary data, the cause of the emergency was birds, according to the Ekaterinburg online website. The prosecutor's office organized an on-site inspection in Koltsovo. “The reason for the forced landing was the collision of the aircraft with a flock of birds during takeoff at the St.