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Le Bourget Airport

Tuesday, 23rd August 2005 by James

Near Paris, Le Bourget Airport features the “French Museum of Air and Space” and the Paris Air Show every second year. The airport is most famous as the landing point of Charles Lindbergh’s historic solo transatlantic crossing in 1927 but these days in only used by business jets.

The museum features numerous air and spacecraft, including real-sized copies of Ariane I (shortest) and Ariane V (tallest) space rockets and the first Boeing 747 that Air France had in service. If you look to the entrance of the museum you can see three “Fuga Magister” planes of the French national aerobatics team mounted at funny angles (ground level photos).

Thanks: Julien, Daniel, Daniel, David Bober, Fabien Cornu, Wizou & blouet.

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3 Responses to 'Le Bourget Airport'

  1. 1. Dom says: August 24th, 2005 at 3:17 am

    The Fouga Magister USED to be the plane used by the “PAF” (la Patrouille Aérienne Française) until September 16th 1980. They were then replaced by the Alpha Jets: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/alpha-jet.htm

  2. 2. The Real Mc Coy says: August 25th, 2005 at 3:59 pm

    You can find a high-resolution (0.6m !!!) QuickBird satellite image taken on the 12/06/05 during Paris Air Show.

    Featuring Airbus A380 (at the top of the image) and many other planes :
    http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/qb/le_bourget_airshow_june12_2005_dg.jpg

    I made an overlay with this image :
    http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=currentEvents&Number=46767

    CU.

  3. 3. carlos rodriguez says: December 19th, 2007 at 11:05 pm

    I am a captain from TAP AIR PORTUGAL, and I return to college this year. I need some information about Liore et Olivier H-470, to produce an articul.
    If some one has any informtion about it i will apreciate.
    Thanks

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