MOSCOW, April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pratt & Whitney and Russia's Irkut Corporation have signed a contract for the companies to begin preliminary design activities on the Pratt & Whitney PurePower® PW1400G engine, which was selected to power the Irkut MC-21 aircraft.

SINGAPORE, Feb. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SINGAPORE AIRSHOW - Goodrich Corporation (NYSE: GR) has been selected by Russia's Irkut and Aviapribor to provide the flight control actuation system for the new Irkut MC-21 family of single-aisle commercial aircraft.

MOSCOW, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Russia's Irkut Corporation has selected the Pratt & Whitney PurePower® PW1000G engine to power the Irkut MC-21 aircraft.

Work geared towards "a breakthrough civil-aviation project" - the development and manufacture of the MS-21 airliner - is under way at the Irkut Corporation, according to a report by the corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN website on 25 October.

By Butowski, Piotr MAKS'2005 was marked by technology innovations and some important international agreements The thrust-vectoring MiG-29OVT put on a stunning display The star of the show was the MiG-29OVT (Otklaniaemyi Vektor Tyagi, deflectable thrust vector) experimental fighter with 3D movable engine nozzles.