Le Bourget 2013 (50th Paris Air Show): Odds and Ends...

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Here are a few off-topic pics from Le Bourget which I thought you might enjoy...


1°) Using a DeLorean DMC-12 in Back to the Future guise to promote an ATR regional airliner:

 

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2°) A real Ansaldo S.V.A. 9 was restored and exhibited but pretty inaccessible to the public...

 

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3°) Nice conceptual aircraft graced the walls of some exhibitors...

 

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4°) In case someone may not know what the logo on this Cirrus aircraft represents, let's exhibit the real deal next to it!

 

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5°) The spirit of Vincent Burnelli haunts the Le Bourget tarmac!

 

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6°) Sometimes the most inconspicuous exhibits can hide the most amazing discoveries...

(more about the reasons behind this exhibit in a dedicated topic soon...)

 

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More Le Bourget "odds and ends" soon!

 

[Avimimus]

Yay!

 

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6°) We're a major automobile manufacturer? Let's exhibit F1 cars on the tarmac at Le Bourget. Sounds a cool thing to do!

I refrained from kicking the passer-by who said: "F1 cars? Now THERE'S something worthy of my respect."
(Why do such idiots visit airshows at all?)

 

[Triton]

Moar! Please.

 

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7°) Exclusive from the "Got some spare metal tubes and I want to show my skills" contest...

 

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8°) Launch Complex for space rocket « Soyuz - 2 » (Scale 1:200)

 

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9°) My "Is this really a display for post-communist Russia or have I travelled back in time?" moment...

(pre-Glasnost Soviet displays were always full of rockets because the aircraft were too secret to be displayed!)

 

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9°) MDBA's "Aircraft are boring, let's show their bellies instead" moment...

 

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9°) We are the largest, most peopled and fastest growing nation in the world but we keep marketing 50-year-old designs with tail gunner positions...

 

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9°) Likely contender for the most desirable scale model of the airshow...

 

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10°) S3 "SOAR Concept"? Tell me, Mr. Dassault, whatever happened to the "Dyna-"?

 

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11°) Most ugly hooter contest...

1st prize:

Runner-up:

 

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12°) Ugliest grin on the show (any dentists in the crowd, please?)

 

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13°) Airshow's biggest assholes...

 

[AeroFranz]

Good stuff, thanks for the pics. The photos i see in the media are always the same and do not necessarily focus on the interesting stuff for the aficionados.

 

[Archibald]

10°) S3 "SOAR Concept"? Tell me, Mr. Dassault, whatever happened to the "Dyna-"?

Vehra is not died !