![]() ![]() “Most of the vendors have nothing to do with defense, and the others are scattered around the exhibition halls, so you really have to hunt.” He looked at me like I had been under the sun on the tarmac for too long. “It’s a lot like the SHOT Show in Las Vegas,” I told Adam, a media relations pro I have known for years. But it is so vast that even a small percentage of it adds up to hundreds of booths pertinent to defense. ![]() The fact is, the Paris Air Show is not a defense trade show, it is a commercial aviation show with a small percentage of defense content and contractors on hand. That facility should figure out how Le Bourget keeps their big buildings chilled. I wish I could say the same for Parc des Expositions up the rail line where they hold the Eurosatory defense trade show on alternating years. They are transported from the city center in nice, air-conditioned limos rather than public transportation.Īnd if this year’s show is any indication, they will all one day be picked up from the Parisian hotels and flown to Le Bourget in electric vertical take-off and landing air taxis, or eVTOLs.įortunately, the enormous exhibition halls were nice and cool, which was an engineering feat. They’re looking to ink billion-dollar deals and make connections with primes or sub-suppliers.Īnd their executives are not taking buses that remind me of Paul Newman in the prison movie “Cool Hand Luke” being sent “to the box” for punishment. I’m looking for interesting news, features and analysis for our readers. Of course, I look at a trade show through a different prism than an aerospace and defense business executive. But after day one traveling in the notoriously hot, stifling trains and buses that take passengers to the historic airport and back, I thought: “they might be onto something.” defense contractors, declared that they were not attending the show this year, which at first seemed shocking. 元Harris and Northrop Grumman, two of the biggest U.S. PARIS - For a variety of reasons - none worth going into detail here - I have never in my 18-year tenure at National Defense covered the Paris Air Show.īut at last, I made it to its 54th iteration at Le Bourget Airport in the northern suburbs of Paris. ![]()
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