VISITORS to the Paris air show deserve a spectacle. The slog on crowded commuter trains from the centre of Paris to Le Bourget, once the French capital’s main airport, is just the start. It takes another leg on over-filled and slow shuttle buses or a 25 minute walk from the station before arriving at the show. So long is the distance between the main gate and the end of the static display of military and civil aircraft that a “petit train” of the type more often seen carting tourists on sightseeing trips plies a circular route round the exhibits. Only Airbus’s immense A380 superjumbo seems to fit comfortably with the scale of the event.
If you are not a fan of aerospace suppliers, from makers of jet engines to small metal components, who make up the bulk of the 2,200 exhibitors, the show is about the planes on the ground and in flight. It is when they take to the air that the show comes to life. The sound of a military jet on full afterburn tearing around the sky, setting off car alarms as it passes by, strikes awe. But it was a lack of noise that made the biggest impression. A glider performing aerobatics is surprising enough; the eerie...Continue reading
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