Le Bourget airshow

The French airshow Le Bourget has its 100th anniversary this year. The show will open for the general public this friday, but 'the industry' was already doing business the last couple of days. And the suits were treated to some great displays by new and old planes.

A Dassault Rafale pulling off some stunts

A Dassault Rafale doing a flyby

A Dassault Rafale with its afterburners on

Spot the differences: Rafale look-a-like Eurofighter Typhoon

A Eurofighter Typhoon showing its delta wing

Three Airbuses (A320, A340, A380) with a Boeing C17 taking off in the background

An Airbus A380 doing a flyby.

The Eurocopter Tiger proves that choppers can do loopings. Well, almost ...

An Italian C27 Spartan

A Lockheed C130 Hercules performing the same stunt

An unmanned Northrop Grumman Global Hawk

A mockup of a F35 Lightning II (JSF)

Now on offer: the Boeing F/A 18 Hornet

Old & new: a Eurofighter Typhoon with a P51 Mustang in the background

Another oldie: the Fouga Magister

A regular guest at Le Bourget: the Lockheed Super Constellation

A Morane-Saulnier M.S. 406 with a Antonov AN-2 in the background

And this was news 40 years ago: the 'new' Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet

All pictures used are from AFP.

Stockton | 18-06-09 | 10:17 | Link |