Word: bourget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...single-engine Mooney-252 touched down smoothly at Le Bourget airport, and the smiling pilot hopped off the two pillows that had elevated him high enough to peer out the plane's window. He turned down a glass of champagne and took a Coke instead. Landing at the same field where Charles Lindbergh ended his solo flight in 1927, U.S. Aviator Christopher Lee Marshall, all of eleven years old, had just become the youngest pilot to fly across the Atlantic...
...sales and prestige at the Paris Air Show, which doubles as an elaborate platform for national pride. This year a record 1,465 exhibitors from 31 countries poured $300 million into the displays for 350,000 visitors that filled the exhibition halls along the flight line at Paris' Le Bourget Airport. But what struck many in attendance, including Senior Correspondent Edwin M. Reingold, was the lackluster U.S. showing, especially in contrast with a vibrant Soviet effort. Reingold's report...
Among the first sights greeting visitors to Le Bourget was the gleaming red- ; white-and-blue U.S.A. Pavilion -- and on its roof the figure of a security guard with a sniper rifle. All attending the air show were scanned for weapons at the entrance; business visitors then had to be reexamined before they could view the commercial displays in the American pavilion. Many wondered why they had to go through the double ordeal when just two minutes away Soviet hosts were admitting one and all, save those who were smoking or eating. "The State Department made us do it," explained...
...most popular U.S. curiosities at the show were round-the-world Flyers Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager. But Voyager, the unique lightweight airplane in which the duo circled the globe nonstop without refueling, was not at Le Bourget. Rutan and Yeager could not raise enough money to bring the aircraft along. A plan to fly Voyager to Paris on an Air Force cargo plane was rejected by a bureaucrat labeled a "pinhead" by an industry journal. What the U.S. chose to display instead was the B-1B bomber, a dark and menacing $285 million war machine. The B-1B, designed...
Travelers aboard Arms Dealer Adnan Khashoggi's $40 million DC-8 enjoyed the last word in airborne luxury. But last week the jetliner, with its three bedrooms, crystal goblets and Russian sable bedspread, was seized by police at Le Bourget Airport in Paris under a court order obtained by British Industrialist Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, who seeks repayment of a $2.5 million loan...