Paris Air Show

Like we're saying I mean, we've heard this from the incumbents for 10 years.

Like we went to the Paris Air Show and we saw just how much engine OEMs and we're focusing on hybrid hybrid systems.

But it becomes very, very different.

Like it becomes hard to run the old process.

As I told you, he flew MiG-21s and, and Mirage 2000s, including in Operation Safed Sagar.

He writes on military subjects, and his article on the air war in Syria won the best military aviation submission in the 2017 Paris Air Show.

However, right now, he's working with drones and more to try and take the Indian Air Force and the general, the larger Indian combat thinking into the modern beyond visual range, electronic, digital era.

Thank you very much, Samir Joshi and Flight Lieutenant Alfred Tyrone Cooke.

They say their plan is to build four aircraft in 2027 and eight by 2029, and moving to a continuous production cadence rather than their current build-to-order timeline.

But I just think it's so fascinating that an aircraft that first debuted at the Paris Air Show in 1965 that is somehow-

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... still being built, they are shifting around where they are building this aircraft that is virtually unchanged in half a century.

Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for War and Air, personally presented the 10,000-pound prize.

Within days, King George V knighted them both, Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Witton Brown, And then six months later on December 18, 1919, Sir John Alcock flew a new Vickers Viking amphibious aircraft to the Paris Air Show.

He flew into fog over Normandy.

He descended into terrain he could not see.

but I always had, you know, even then, I always had an air-cooled Beetle.

You know, if you go to Oshkosh AirVenture, which is the biggest airshow in the world, or one of them anyways, you go there, I think the Paris Air Show may be technically bigger, but, uh, Oshkosh, there's all these Beetles running around with the roofs just cut off.

They're just, just roadsters, and they have these, uh, bikini tops modified from boats-

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Two or three of them would work with a Gripen, for example, go off and do deep strike and other capabilities.

So it's a very similar approach to what the French have been proposing with Rafale and that sort of neuron NG kind of platform that we saw alongside the Rafale at last year's Paris Airshow.

So that's where the thinking is going.

And Saab, of course, having been a partner on that program, right?

biggest in the U.S.

The Paris Air show is probably bigger in the whole world.

But you're going there to buy a plane.

Well, I know most people are not, but I was going because, you know, they're all there.

And then six months later, on December 18th, 1919, John Alcock was dead.

He was delivering a new Vickers Viking amphibian to the Paris Airshow.

He flew into fog and low visibility near Rouen in northern France.

The aircraft struck rising terrain.

Check out my Goonie Bird episodes on how that went.

But the Dutch Fokker company kept on trucking, and in 1938, they brought a revolutionary new fighter designed by chief designer Marius Bieling to the Paris Air Show, where it caused a sensation.

Yes, the Fokker D-23.

The D23 was a twin engine, single-seat fighter that looks kind of like a P-38 Lightning and a DO-335 File had a baby.