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Amazing looking Sud Trident is restored to airworthiness via Photoshop!
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This huge Mirage IV A is preserved at Le Bourget, tucked in beside a Concorde prototype.
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D'assault Mirage IIIV VTOL prototype is preserved at Le Bourget, Paris.
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Recently restored AD-4 Skyraider preserved at Le Bourget, Paris.
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This early Sud Aviation SE.3130 Alouette II is 01/ AS. The first of many.
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This Pakistan AF C-130E is 4171. It previously served the RAAF in Australia as A97-171
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Pakistan AF C-130E 4282, seen at Le Bourget with JF-17 12-139.
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This pretty first generation jet is a Mystere IV A, made by D'assault.
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This is the prototype D'assault Mirage G.8.
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Sun-dappled Mirage III prototype, 01, swoops down in the 'Hall de Prototypes' at Le Bourget. This was the first of about 1400 made.
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in the 'Hall de Prototypes' at Le Bourget is an amazing collection of French aircraft.
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This D'assault Super Mystere B2, coded 12-YY poses with my wife in Paris.
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Good looking Armee de L' Air F-100D in the Le Bourget museum.
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79/ 10-SK at Strasbourg Air show in 1982. Mirage F.1C
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Mirage 111R #315 at Strasbourg Airshow in 1982 coded 33-EL.
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A beautiful Mirage 111R, #303, 33-CK taxies at Entzeim, near Strasbourg in 1982
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French KC #736 at CDG
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A nicer aspect of the Mirage IIIV, the only supersonic VTOL jet, in Paris.
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An ex Viet-Nam warrior in Paris. 55-2736 joined the Armee de L' Air later, coded 11-EF.
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Seen through the fence at Dugny is early Mirage IIIC, #42, coded EF.
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You can see quite a lot from outside the museum store at Dugny, but not so good for photos. Here is an ex AdLA Meteor NF.14.
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The French made some good looking early jets, like this Mystere (Mystery) IVA.
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My wife poses with a Sud-Aviation built H-34A, SA53. License built H-34 Choctaw or Wessex.
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French AF Mirage IIIR 315/ 33-CL at Entzheim AB, near Strasbourg.
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This Mirage IIIRD is on display while with 317 Sqn, based here at Entzeim AB, near Strasbourg. #359 is coded 33-TH. It survives at Clermont Ferrand.
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I must have climbed something to get this pic of truly beautiful Mirage IIIR, #315/ 33-CL. It's seen at its home base Entzeim, near Strasbourg in 1982. l/n derelict at Rochefort- St.A in 2016, but looking lovely here.
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Armee de L' Air Mirage 5F at Entzeim AB in 1982. #35/ 13-SI was last heard of in 1997, in store at Chateaudun. What a beautiful jet.
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This Mirage IIIR, #361/ 33-TJ was preserved at Enzheim AB, not far from Strasbourg in 1982. It's dumped at Orange these days.
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French AF Noratlas, #131/ 63-KF taxies at Entzeim AB. The Armee de L' Air sold it off in 1985 as F-GEXP, and then it became 9Q-CLM in Zaire.
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Armenian Government Tu-134A-3 visits Paris in 2001. EK-65072 (c/n 49972) was l/n in 2014, but maybe it's still flying?
