Musée de l'Air , musem in paris , france:
The Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, (English: Air and Space Museum), is a French aerospace museum, located at the south-eastern edge of Le Bourget Airport, north of Paris, and in the commune of Le Bourget.[1][2] It was inaugurated in 1919 after a proposal by the celebrated aeronautics engineer Albert Caquot (1881–1976).
Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace (Bourget) :
Daedalus and Icarus had flown by sticking wings on their backs. In the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci dreamed of the helicopter and parachute. Later, in the eighteenth century, the Montgolfier brothers built the first balloons hot air: it is this great epic of the conquest of the sky as the Museum of Air and Space invites you to discover on the site of Le Bourget airport north of Paris.
Airships and "heavier than air", Boeing, Ariane, Concorde and Mirages, all find their place to the delight of those who like to have their heads in the clouds. The museum exhibits very large collections made of real devices as well as models, drawings and parts evoking the history of aviation from the early twentieth century.
Many activities are offered regularly: discover the secrets of Concorde or Boeing 747, revealing the secrets of the universe in the planetarium, and even learn to fly in a flight simulator! Enough to delight young and old, especially as this museum has the advantage of being estimable little frequented and save yourself the crowds cumbersome.
Other items of interest range from a gilded bronze medallion of the Montgolfier brothers, created in 1783 by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), the Glider Massia-Biot (1879), an 1884 electric motor by Arthur Constantin Krebs (1850–1935), the rear gondola of the 1915 Zeppelin LZ 113, equipped with 3 Maybach engines, type HS, a 1916 SPAD VII aircraft by Blériot-SPAD, a 1917 Airco DH.9 aircraft by Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965), and a 1918 Junkers D.I aircraft by Hugo Junkers (1859–1935), to the 1961 Dassault Mirage IIIC by Marcel Dassault (1892–1986), an SSBS S3 surface-to-surface ballistic missile commissioned in 1981, and a 2002 Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard model.
The Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, (English: Air and Space Museum), is a French aerospace museum, located at the south-eastern edge of Le Bourget Airport, north of Paris, and in the commune of Le Bourget.[1][2] It was inaugurated in 1919 after a proposal by the celebrated aeronautics engineer Albert Caquot (1881–1976).
Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace (Bourget) :
Daedalus and Icarus had flown by sticking wings on their backs. In the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci dreamed of the helicopter and parachute. Later, in the eighteenth century, the Montgolfier brothers built the first balloons hot air: it is this great epic of the conquest of the sky as the Museum of Air and Space invites you to discover on the site of Le Bourget airport north of Paris.
Airships and "heavier than air", Boeing, Ariane, Concorde and Mirages, all find their place to the delight of those who like to have their heads in the clouds. The museum exhibits very large collections made of real devices as well as models, drawings and parts evoking the history of aviation from the early twentieth century.
Many activities are offered regularly: discover the secrets of Concorde or Boeing 747, revealing the secrets of the universe in the planetarium, and even learn to fly in a flight simulator! Enough to delight young and old, especially as this museum has the advantage of being estimable little frequented and save yourself the crowds cumbersome.
One of the existing aircraft in the museum :
Hurel-Dubois (with a wing like that, who else!) HD-10 at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Le Bourget, 20 June 2007. This prototype flew from 1948 to 1954, amassing 218 hours.
Description of Musée de l'Air :
Occupying over 150,000 square metres (1,600,000 sq ft) of land and hangars, it is one of the oldest aviation museums in the world. The museum's collection contains more than 19,595 items, including 150 aircraft, and material from as far back as the 16th Century. Also displayed are more modern air and spacecraft, including the prototype for Concorde, and Swiss and Soviet rockets. The museum also has the only remaining piece of L'Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird), the 1927 aircraft which attempted to make the first Transatlantic crossing from Paris to New York. On May 8, 1927, the aircraft took off from Le Bourget, jettisoned its landing gear (which is stored at the museum), but then disappeared over the Atlantic.Other items of interest range from a gilded bronze medallion of the Montgolfier brothers, created in 1783 by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), the Glider Massia-Biot (1879), an 1884 electric motor by Arthur Constantin Krebs (1850–1935), the rear gondola of the 1915 Zeppelin LZ 113, equipped with 3 Maybach engines, type HS, a 1916 SPAD VII aircraft by Blériot-SPAD, a 1917 Airco DH.9 aircraft by Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965), and a 1918 Junkers D.I aircraft by Hugo Junkers (1859–1935), to the 1961 Dassault Mirage IIIC by Marcel Dassault (1892–1986), an SSBS S3 surface-to-surface ballistic missile commissioned in 1981, and a 2002 Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard model.