Go figure …
Juxtaposition …
The Sacre Coeur and Le Pigalle are pretty much next door to each other …
Le Bourget … Engine Collection …
Quite a collection of antique engines … unfortunately the display is poorly signposted so one has little idea what one is looking at …
Le Bourget … French Experimentals …
Some weird and wonderful experimental aircraft I’ve never seen before.
Literally a glass cockpit stuck on the front end of a humongous jet engine …
You can’t see it in the picture, but that tube running along the underside makes a right angle at the tail end and terminates as a shower head – after-burner no doubt.
Le Bourget … 747 …
Cute idea to cut away parts of the cabin to reveal the inner workings of the 747.
Le Bourget … Concorde …
France’s Air and Space Museum is located at one of the Paris airports, where the annual Paris Airshow takes place. It has seen better times, somewhat dusty and tatty, but some cool exhibits none-the-less. The Concorde exhibit features 2 ships – #001 the flight testing platform still equipped with it’s ’60s era instrumentation.
#001 still needs a drip pan to catch the “stuff” dripping out of it’s underside.
Rejuvenation …
The old downtown of Bordeaux has been cleaned and polished. The tram system is superb – handsome, quiet and frequent. This is a paddling pool on the water front that’s about the size of a football field.
Cafes and brasseries everywhere – more foie gras than you can shake a stick at.
