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An Afternoon At Le Bourget


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Paris layover yesterday, so I hopped the train to Le Bourget for the Paris air show.  Only had a few hours to gawk, but it was nice aero-porn!  Weather was marginal....cool and windy with low ceilings, which limited the acro routines.  Still cool as hell, though.  

 

Got a short vid of the A400M transport showing off.  I've never seen a large transport airplane in a vertical bank:

 

 

post-424-0-84471100-1372026357_thumb.jpg  Sepecat Jaguar

post-424-0-11167900-1372026371_thumb.jpg Phallic symbols abounded...

post-424-0-82513400-1372026392_thumb.jpgYup, she's a DC-3

post-424-0-74421800-1372026406_thumb.jpg 'Stang!

post-424-0-69928000-1372026436_thumb.jpgAn aging 747

post-424-0-56269500-1372026450_thumb.jpgIt eats little kids for breakfast

post-424-0-99322100-1372026475_thumb.jpgP-38 on a fly-by.  

post-424-0-64593900-1372026504_thumb.jpgA simpit of some kind

post-424-0-57335700-1372026519_thumb.jpgAirbus A350 cockpit

post-424-0-28913300-1372026533_thumb.jpgEADS had a stratospheric airship concept model

post-424-0-33915400-1372026547_thumb.jpgclose-up of the Airbus A400M transport

post-424-0-81896700-1372026561_thumb.jpg

post-424-0-94289100-1372026575_thumb.jpg

Antonov AN-2

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