DAY ONE OF Le Bourget is like being at the biggest Macy’s store you can imagine on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Only it is around 90 degrees, you are fighting a crowd all day long and running to get from one place to the next–all the while perspiring through your coat and tie. At the end of the day you are loaded down with overstuffed heavy duty plastic bags. Only instead of being full of Polo, Prada, Levis and the Gap you are dragging around the world’s biggest pile of aerospace brochures, CDs, calendars, pen sets, lapel badges and magazines.

The MiG-29OVT