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FLIGHT International. 13 June 1963 917 Paris aeronautical salons reach their silver jubilee with this year's 25th, but in fact are as old as heavier-than-air aviation, having been held since 1908. Their history comprehends aeronautical activity from Farman and the Wrights to Scott Carpenter, and the breaks in their biennial continuity occasioned by two world wars have seen great spurts in aircraft development under military necessity. These photographs, a unique assemblage, most of them Flight International originals, depict graphically the changes in style, fashion and content of Paris salons over the years, from the original aviation section of the annual automobile salon in 1908 to the 1961 event. One change which will be noticed is that from 1953 the show moved from indoor confines to a more spacious airfield environment. The captions beneath these photographs rejoice in an irrelevancy unusual for this journal; our aim has been to convey the spirit of individual years and to guess at snatches of conversation by individual visitors from another side of the Channel. Twenty-five Paris Shows I908 "The aeroplanes of the brothers Wright and Mr Farman and the airship of Count Zeppelin have set the world wondering whether ... we may not be approaching a real 'conquest of the air' " ("The Times") 1909 By a coincidence, on the last day of this year's show the German Crown Prince "ascended with Mr Orville Wright" 1910 "What did you say his name was—B/er/ot? Where's the machine in which M Paulhan won the London - Manchester race?" 1911 "... must ask the Home Secretary, Mr Churchill, about that. It seems to me a very good idea" 1912 "Did you see the Boot Race this year, Georges? Oxford and Cambridge both sank. Highly amusin' " *****
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