Le Bourget Museum today

Viva La France

Thank’s for the latest tour Laurent 🙂 , Great stuff, Pitty about the non flying bit as mentioned in your last thread on this 🙁 , Still great to look at aircraft not chopped to bits or in the smelters pot :rolleyes: , It’s great to have some French connections on the forum 😎 , Cheers all 😉 , Tally Ho! Phil. :diablo:

” There’s nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” (Shakes,Baby)

There was one donated in the 1950s(?) which was ‘lost’, and I think not the same as the one lost in the fire. Anyone got better info?

So now it has ended up in France. They deserve one, what with all the Resistance recovery and everything. I just wish they had not scrapped the one the RAF gave them!!

Didn’t they lose one in the infamous 1990 fire?

Thanks for the update on the Meteors. What a fascinating collection and I hope you can keep us updated on progress.

Tres interessant. Combien de Meteors avez-vous la-bas?

There are three, two outside, and one inside the crowded hangar:

Great photo’s Laurent!
I do Hope the French Gov’t will one day drop a load of money your way so that you can get most if not all of the collection under cover?!

I guess it is just a question to use money the right way: for instance, what was the most important, buying a Lysander (or any other plane, by the way) or spending the same amount to provide a roof or another solution for the plane displayed outside? The Skyraider is almost finished, and it looks like it’s gonna be another outdoor display, like the recently repainted C-47

or maybe locked up in the Hall B with all the WWII planes that were previously displayed in the Concorde hall before they put the other Concorde in there.

Another plane that used to be in the Concorde hall was this Mirage IIIE

the birds have already taken care of the paint scheme on the fin…

the classic lines of another Mirage, a IIIC

a Vautour, probably coming from the closed Nancy museum

a Jaguar, seeking protection under the wing of the Constellation

the nose of that french navy C-47 met something hard….

Toucan and Sandringham

former Czesh AF Mig21

and to conclude, a very naked A-26 fuselage

Laurent

Tres interessant. Combien des Meteors avez-vous la-bas? Which uses up all my French.
It looks like there is plenty of work to do.

Great photo’s Laurent!
I do Hope the French Gov’t will one day drop a load of money your way so that you can get most if not all of the collection under cover?!

The Lizzie is the ex British Commonwealth Air Training Plan one at Brandon in Canada

It was in Germany a while and was to be sold to Portugal but I heard it was not ‘original enough’ for the portugese. Read into that what you will.

So now it has ended up in France. They deserve one, what with all the Resistance recovery and everything. I just wish they had not scrapped the one the RAF gave them!!

Nice suprise to see that Lysander in france. Le Bourget is without any doubt the Hendon of France.

J.V.

“we enjoy being stored outdoors” serie:

From the back of a Mirage IV, Vautour II NF, Noratlas, Breguet Alize, Meteor and forlon french navy Dak:

Breguet Alize:

Once General De Gaulle’s personnal Caravelle:

Meteor:

Meteor again:

Met…nah, Canberra

Hurel Dubois 34:

and Mirage IIIE, Mirage IIIB and DC7:

thanks papa lima

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/lizzieregistry/lizzie-rcaf2346.html
Looks like it came from Portugal . . .

is the lizzie a french based example?