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The Paris Air Show begins today, in what promises to be a week full of excitement and events in Le Bourget, Paris. Along with the Dubai and Farnborough air shows, the Paris exposition is among the largest in the world, bringing in dislpays, press and ...

To refine a popular saying, "The worst day at an air show beats the best day at work." But what if you're doing both? That's exactly what happened when Grant Martin, the editor of Gadling, told me that he'd be attending the Paris Air Show and ...

The Paris Air Show restricts access to press and industry professionals from Monday through Thursday, which would seem to make it the ideal time to visit the show, assuming you could get your hands on a pass. Gadling editor Grant Martin and I managed ...

The biggest orders of the Paris Air Show were racked up by Sukhoi, the Russian aerospace firm best known for its fighters. The 98-seat airplane is the first to come from the country since the fall of the Soviet Union and is slated to compete with the ...

Covering the Paris Air Show is like trying to cover a football field with a napkin. There is so much space, depth and gravity to each display that you could spend a week going through each exhibit hall and still not get the full picture. The above ...

Today's Photo of the Day is relevant for several reasons. The shot of the tarmac on the way to Paris was taken by Kent Wien, our resident pilot who is actually currently on layover in the middle of a BOS-CDG-BOS turn. This week is also the week of ...

Gadling's photo of the day today was taken by Sean Roskey, who managed to capture this shot of Gadling's editor, Grant Martin enjoying a tour of the 767 cockpit given by yours truly before heading off to the Paris Air Show. Given Grant's near ...

If you've been following the development of the Boeing 787, you may have heard about the electronic shades on their extra-large passenger windows. So far, we've had to imagine how effective this technology would be, knowing it would be over a year ...

Yesterday we showed you how passengers on the 787 will have it 'made in the shade.' When I first heard about the electrically dimmable window shade feature, I asked Randy Baseler, then VP of marketing at Boeing, whether this type of technology might ...

Paris' catacombs, underground passages full of neatly stacked human bones, have been temporarily closed to the public after being vandalized. A spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor's office would not go into detail on the extent of the vandalism, ...

Elvis may have left the building, but the man who immortalized him (no, not the colonel) has left his mark. The Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais has scored a major win: the museum is playing host to 250 works by Andy Warhol. Quite simply, this ...

Stepping off the shuttle bus from RER Bourget into the air show grounds, you begin to digest the magnitude of this event. From a plan of the show, one can see that aircraft displays and flights take place at one corner of the airport. The other two ...