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Is it just me or did GiFAS (organisers of the Paris Air Show) rip off the logo from our big anniversary campaign - Flightglobal's 100 Greatest - for this year's 100 anniversary show website?

Observez vous:

Paris Air Show official site:

100 Greatest Logo:

I'm not precious though.

Flight International issue 23 - 29 June

This week was the 100th Paris Air Show covered as ever by Flightglobal. But this year we did things a little differently.

Exhibitors visited our chalet to see our multimedia studio in operation and were greeted by the sight of our journalists interviewing the newsmakers and giving their take on the news gathered at the show.

Mary Kirby and Jon Ostrower make a great double act as they sum up each day's news and notable events at the show. See Mark Pilling and David Kaminski-Morrow as they evaluate the Sukhoi Superjet which was showcased at the static and aerial displays.

There are plenty of CEO interviews from the show including Qatar Airways' Al Baker who last week warned Boeing that it would lose out to Airbus if it delayed the 787 any further.

See our Paris gallery on AirSpace hosting images from the aerial displays taken by AirSpace user apgphoto and take a look at our gallery of images of Paris Grand Palais and Le Bourget from days gone by.

Scroll through our interactive Paris timeline showing the iconic moments from the show over the last century.

If you're visiting the Paris Air Show this year and make it over to the Flightglobal chalet, then you'll have a very different experience to the fine dining and business meetings of the past.

Visitors will be treated to an in-depth overview of our multi-media operation at the show, with a working newsroom and clusters of plasma screens showing our editorial coverage taking shape in real time.

The Flightglobal media lounge is an exciting milestone in show reporting, featuring unprecedented levels of integration between our print and online publications.

The clear advantage is in making full use of our expert journalists across the entire Flightglobal portfolio, which includes Flight Daily News, Flight International, Airline Business and a suite of premium products such as Air Transport Intelligence, ACAS and Commercial Aviation Online.

It's also a chance for us to show the industry how we operate, how we use modern technologies such as social media and the degree of professionalism with which we approach our online publications."

Visitors to the show are welcome to drop in on the chalet D220.

As requested, here's a run down of who to follow for Paris Air Show updates during the show:

Flightglobal

All the news, event updates and big announcements

mtargettuk

That's me. I'll be posting Flightglobal specific updates

Flightblogger
Jon Ostrower is a prolific Tweeter at anytime but during a major air show he comes into his own.

theDEWline
Flightglobal's man on the US defence industry.

RunwayGirl
Mary Kirby will be covering IFE and air transport.

flighthyperbola
Rob Coppinger is Flightglobal's Man in Space.

stefanthepilot
Women want him, men want to be him. Stefan lives aviation and aerospace, so he's obviously going to be at the Paris Air Show.

ATIHeadlines
If you're an Air Transport Intelligence subscriber and want to get ATI updates via Twitter then send a request via the ATIHeadlines Twitter account.

As we'll be there en masse, best way to get the complete picture is to tap into the #parisairshow tag. We're planning to include the #tag in all of our content of Twitter.

Other Flightglobal Journalist Tweeters at Paris:

TheABEd
Mark Pilling is the Editor of Airline Business magazine and the Airlines Channel of Flightglobal.

Cockburnb
Flightglobal's very own Content Editor.

flightdoyle
Head of Content at Flightglobal.

VictoriaOnAir
Victoria Moores covers the Airline Business side of things.

discostu1
Disco Stu is the Community Editor for Flightglobal and AirSpace.

sarsfieldkate
Business and GA updates 

For anyone into meeting random strangers in foreign bars, Stefan the Pilot (+ members of the Flightglobal team) are arranging a TweetUp in Geneva for EBACE air show attendees.

Stefan and friends will be in Les Brasseurs bar near the train station in Geneva town centre from 8.30pm tomorrow (Tuesday 12th May).

If you fancy doing some networking, chatting about business aviation and meeting the guys and girls of Flight, come along and we'll buy you a beer.

Look out for a 12 inch-high pilot in a snazzy uniform with smouldering good looks ...

Also if you're into following us on Twitter - we're all using the #EBACE to accompany our Tweets from the show.

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 ...

Flight's Jeff Decker grabs an exclusive interview with movie legend Harrison Ford, who was visiting the NBAA air show in Orlando:

If you are having problems playing the clip, see it on YouTube