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1961
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\ 784 FLIGHT, 8 June 1961 4 V \ >c Le Bo urge t Marathon IT began, on a morning that promised a fine if not a cloudlessday, with the little fellows—the Airedale, Emeraude. Com-anche, Debonair and a score or so more. It ended with the big fellows, most memorable among them the Mach 2 fightersand bombers. In a word, the flying displays which last weekend formed the climax to the 24th Paris Salon Aeronautique hadsomething for everyone, or generally more than something. Sadly, the Saturday performance led to the loss of the record-breaking Convair Hustler. The programme was at marathon length, lasting (with alunchtirne interval of an hour-and-a-half) from nearly ten o'clock in the morning till after six in the evening—from thematins of larks in the grass where Lindbergh landed until long after they had been stunned into evensong quiescence by thescream of Avons, Atars and GE J79s. Morning till Evening Flying Concludes the Paris Salon "FLIGHT" PHOTOGRAPHS At the hover in the heading picture are four of eight Sud Alouette Us which displayed some impressive lines of naval bunting. The Alouette III in the foreground is one of two which earlier in the proceedings wore the flags of 24 Alouette user-countries. Immed- iately above, the Nord Griffon II, with its statoreacteur in pity- Left, the English Electric Light- ning F.ls of 74 Squadron, Rff
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