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FLIGHT (rrternationa/, 5 June 1969 923 DIAMOND JUBILEE SALON First report, illustrated mainly with "Flight" photographs «HIS YEAR'S SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY international Paris Air Show—the first was in 1909, but the present event is the twenty-eighth to be held—could not have occurred at a better time for the French and the Americans. With Concorde 001 making a ceremonial fly past across Paris last Thursday, along the length of the Champs Elysees, before landing at Le Bourget; with a French space pavilion at the entrance to the show; and with more exhibitors (over 600) than ever before, the organisers, USIAS (Union Syndicales des Industries Aeronautiques et Spatiales) can justly claim this to be the best-ever Paris Salon. It was officially opened on Friday, May 30, by the Minister of Defence, M Pierre Messmer. The organisers' further claim that it is the best organised can be borne out on an initial view of the arrangements that have been made, especially when they were weather-tested by thunderstorms on the opening days. For the Americans, too, the show could not be more timely. With their contribution master-minded by the Department of Commerce, the Apollo programme was chosen as the dominant theme, the success of Apollo 11 proving that decision to have been right and giving the US space exhibit at the entrance to the show a realism and drama it might not otherwise have had. It is unfortunate for the US contribution overall that neither a Lockheed C-5A Galaxy nor (at the time of writing) a Boeing 747 could make their impressive contribution to the aircraft displayed. For the Russians, British, Canadians and Germans this year's salon provides varying opportunities of displaying their aviation capability, strength and imaginativeness. The Russian space pavilion is a compound of size and silence, its entire hardware contents devoted to scientific achievements, though the cosmonauts are depicted photo graphically. Several new Soviet aircraft are on view: Paris 1969 : the static display before the arrival of Concorde 001 (see overleaf). At the top left are the exhibition halls, and beyond the aircraft the three rows of exhibitors' chalets. In the foreground is a turboprop DC-J and beyond the big Russians (An-22, 11-62 and Tu-154) is the Dassault Mercure. mock-up *«!slg!8 ;,«*,-: .rl-tsi -r-rt-v - , „. •'? :0m " •:iiiimfar '• t&t 1 •
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