First stop was Le Bourget, not brilliant for photograhy but nevertheless a picture to show the atmosphere late on the Friday evening:
My friends had a reason for this stop naturally. Every number had to be jotted down. My guess is they logged around 500 numbers during this trip...
Next day we went to La Ferté-Alais for the annual warbirdshow:
Lots of replica's of World War I stuff:
For the modern touch the Aeronavale was present as well, with a Hawkeye,
two Etendards,
and two Rafales (We didn't wait for the Air Force example, but saw it leaving and returning at Orly):
Nice old gleaming engines:
A flying scale model of a Focke-Wulf 190:
Unfortunately this Lady wasn't flying anymore:
My favourite aircraft of the event was the Polikarpov, on the ground,
and in the air:
A nice Mitchell to conclude this part of the trip:
After the warbirds we payed a short visit to Orly, a wonderfull spot this but for photography it's best to do this in the morning:
In the playground behind this spot you can find a Etendard IV in reasonably good shape:
Next day we spent at Charles de Gaulle Airport. We started off at this spot, about a five minutes walk from our hotel:
A pity they don't visit Schiphol because the colours of Air Canada are very pleasing:
There was another taxitrack on our left but the light wasn't very good. No reason to skip this MEA A330 however:
Out of our reach this Singapore beast taxied to the far runway but with 400mm I managed to take a (not so brilliant) shot:
A four engined pencil of Qatar:
From a different angle it looks somewhat punchier:
Saudi Arabia was also there:
Wearing almost the same colours as parent company Royal Jordanian:
We were very pleased with this Chinese Cargo 777:
American sent several 767's with winglets:
Ofcourse we couldn't leave without Air France's pride & joy:
TAM brought a plane with a few autographs:
And finally a 777 from PIA:
