by Jack Elliott
The Paris Air Show is the Queen Mother of all air shows. It was born in 1909, before anybody else ever conceived of anything like an air show. Aviation was hardly out of the cradle. You could a1most count the number of airplanes in the world on your fingers. But the 2nd Paris Automobile Show at the Grand Palais, just off the Champs-Elysees, included an aircraft exhibit.
It is now a weeklong biennial show (it now alternates with one in Farnborough, England). It may not seem possible to be all things to all people, but in the world of aviation the Paris Air Show is just that. Everything from small, personal, single-engine planes to the biggest aircraft in the world, the six-engine Russian Antonov 225, is on display. The latest airliners, business aircraft, and fighter aircraft are there, and many of them are put through flight demonstrations daily.
The Paris Air Show is the Queen Mother of all air shows. It was born in 1909, before anybody else ever conceived of anything like an air show. Aviation was hardly out of the cradle. You could a1most count the number of airplanes in the world on your fingers. But the 2nd Paris Automobile Show at the Grand Palais, just off the Champs-Elysees, included an aircraft exhibit.
It is now a weeklong biennial show (it now alternates with one in Farnborough, England). It may not seem possible to be all things to all people, but in the world of aviation the Paris Air Show is just that. Everything from small, personal, single-engine planes to the biggest aircraft in the world, the six-engine Russian Antonov 225, is on display. The latest airliners, business aircraft, and fighter aircraft are there, and many of them are put through flight demonstrations daily.
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