October 11, 2003 at 3:16 pm
G’day all,
I’ve finally managed to post a selection of my photos from the French Heritage Open Day at the Musee de L’Air et L’Espace at Le Bourget. They chuck open most of the storage sheds, as well as the restoration centres and the main museum is freeee…
There’s a few rare beasts, inc. the Lanc, Sandringham and Mauruder here and a couple of items I can’t identify.
If you’d like to see more, say so and I’ll post. Meantime, visit: http://community.webshots.com/user/buchonalia
Cheers
By: JohnH - 13th October 2003 at 09:04
Great pics!!!!!!!! One more correction, it’s spelled Marauder…..great to see it fully restored.
JH
By: Ant.H - 12th October 2003 at 23:36
Hi James.The mystery fighter is a Breguet 1001 Taon,an experimental fighter bomber,flown for the first time on July 26th 1957.It set a 1,000km closed curcuit speed record in April 1958 of 649mph,and then re-set the record in July at 668mph. For more see below:
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/clyde/808/taon.html
Great pictures James,thanks for sharing them with us. 😎
By: JDK - 12th October 2003 at 21:39
Thanks for he feedback chaps.
I’ll add more (in a couple of days when I get to a fast computer – I live up a country lane, and there’s a limit to kpbs with a can and string arrangement, though you can always hear the seaside…)
The use of webshots is deliberate Kenneth, because a) it stays up (hem – unlike some forums I may mention) and b) is easy to get to for other friends too, and c) I know I can get the images to behave and viewers don’t have the one size fits all of the thread system here – I’m not complaining, it’s just the choices we make. Sorry, glad you made the effort though, hope it was worth it.
Thanks Skythe – I’ll correct it. As my old friends know, my English spelling is enterta.. enter… bad, as for French, well! Anyone got chapter and worse on the mystery 50’s fighter?
Cheers
By: skythe - 12th October 2003 at 20:34
Lovely shots, but that last one is a Vautour.
By: Kenneth - 11th October 2003 at 18:37
I’d pleased to see more, preferably here in this thread. The link you added is a bit cumbersome to operate!