Obviously Flightglobal will be all over this year's Paris Air Show like a rash, but we're also doing a bunch of stuff in preparation for the 100th year of the show.
A couple of the latest gems to go live include some cool Paris Air Show accounts from the Flight 100 Year Archive:
Paris Air Show through the ages
- 1908 - First Paris Aero Salon - part of Automobile show
- 1909 - First stand alone Paris Aero Salon at Le Grand Palais
- 1910 - Paris Aero Salon
- 1919 - Show restarts after First World War
- 1927 - Charles Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget
- 1930 - 12th anniversary Paris Aero Show aircraft "lack original design"
- 1936 - 15th anniversary - Bristol Blenheim represents Britain
- 1949 - Flying demonstrations held at Orly
- 1953 - 20th anniversary - Show relocates from Grand Palais to Le Bourget
- 1953 - First flying displays
- 1957 - 22nd anniversary
- 1961 - Le Bourget Marathon flying display from morning to night
- 1961 - Salon Extraordinaire
- 1967 - Concorde mock-up
- 1969 - Diamond Jubilee anniversary
- 1969 - the Big Exhibit
- 1969 - Boeing 747 makes an appearance
- 1969 - Concorde flies in
- 1971 - Full scale mock up of A300
- 1971 - Paris - 29th anniversary
- 1973 - Paris - show review
- 1973 - European Airbus
- 1983 - Space shuttle Enterprise carried by Boeing 747 Transporter
- 1989 - Antonov 225 carries Space Shuttle Buran
- 1989 - Sukhoi Su-27 performs aerial display
- 1991 - F-117 makes appearance
- 1993 - Evidence of Russian- and Eastern European-built airframes sporting Western avionics and engines
- 1995 - Dash 8 stretch launched
- 1995 - Boeing launches 777
- 1995 - Northrop Grumman B-2 stealth bomber
Elsewhere we're in the process of compiling the best image collection of historical Paris Air Shows on the web:
The gallery is 100+ images strong at the moment and growing as fast as we can scan the old photos in!
But we also need your help to identify and tag the images ...
on May 21, 2009 11:14 AM | Reply
Paris airshow is a great show which is known for its masterpiece in air crafts!!!
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on May 21, 2009 12:47 PM | Reply
What is your planned Twitter coverage of the show? The hashtag #parisairshow has been established and I know @flightglobal and @flightdoyle will be there. ANything else planned?
on May 21, 2009 1:44 PM | Reply
Ludo,
yep - the #parisairshow tag is what we're going for. #paris brings up a load of random tourist stuff about visiting Paris and going up the Eiffel Tower etc ... so we've had to refine it a bit.
We've got the majority of our team there so they'll be lots of other Twitterers posting updates.
But more significantly, the entire Flight setup is geared towards the web for this year's show and so the web coverage should be really detailed and engaging.
I'll be posting another blog shortly giving a more detailed account of what's planned and inviting people attending the show to come and visit our Chalet to see how our operation works.
Michael