Le Bourget

The biennial Salon International de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace, Paris-Le Bourget–otherwise known as the Paris Air Show–is the largest aerospace exposition of its kind in the world. The shadow of a global economic downturn that has impacted only the automotive sector to a degree worse than it has the aerospace industry gave this year’s 48th biennial event one of the more subdued atmospheres in the past two decades.

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