Pan American clipper, Vol. 27, No. 11, June 1, 1967

              Concorde SST Is the Star Of '67 Paris A ir Show
PARIS — The most modern aircraft in the world and a supersonic dream on the threshhold of reality, the Anglo-French Concorde, will be on display at the Paris Air Show until June 4, at Le Bourget Airport. The Concorde, represented by a glistening, full-sized aluminum model, remains a high point in the 10-day air show which opened May 26 and includes attention-getting exhibits from the United States and the Soviet Union. The 124-passenger SST, to be test-flown next February, will be the world’s first commercial transport capable of travelling faster than the speed of sound —2.2 times faster. Pan American has ordered eight Concordes. They will be flying by 1971. Another world’s first is provided by the United States, in the shape of the Phantom F - ll l fighter-bomber: the first swing-wing jet. Also exhibited by the U.S. is a wingless “lifting body” designed so that future astronauts will be able to ride down to any airport for a soft landing; a helicopter capable of performing loops and rolls; a cargo plane that tilts its wings for short take-off then pivots them to the horizontal for level flight. Although 16 countries are vying for attention, the most impressive displays are the British-French Concorde and the U.S. and Soviet exhibits. The Russians brought the Vostok rocket launcher, the powerful lower stage which fired the first man—Yuri Gagarin—into space. The U.S. brought a charred Apollo space capsule. The Russians and Americans have the largest displays of all the partici­ pating nations and, although the American is the biggest single pavilion at the MORE PHOTOGRAPHS air show, the Russians have the biggest planes. Russia’s AN-22 turboprop cargo plane, unveiled in 1965, is being shown again. The AN-22 can carry 700 passengers. Three other impressive Soviet planes are jets: the four-engined IL-62, and three-engine jet and a two-engine jet—all transports and all with engines clustered at the tail. The Soviet Union also is exhibiting a wide variety of helicopters, some of them able to transport between 80 and 90 passengers. But future travel is personified by the sleek, needle-nosed Concorde. The idea that the plane is more than a designer’s dream for some far-in-the-future year, but will fly by 1968 when the two Concorde prototypes are to be testflown, draws large crowds to the British Aircraft Corporation-Sud Aviation Concorde model. . In the U.S. Pavilion, Pan Am offers visitors a film of the airline s history, flashed into 13 screens simultaneously. Nearby on a ramp, a Pan Am Fan Jet Falcon is parked. Dassault, manufacturers of the Falcon, also offers an aviation first. . _ r Dassault opened the world’s first aircraft service station. Located at Le Bourget, the station will provide Fan Jet Falcons with 600-hour maintenance checks and the crews with comfortable quarters while they wait. The station will operate as does an ordinary service station for cars. Firms that have purchased Fan Jets will be able to fly the plane over to Le Bourget for repairs, check-ups, maintenance—as easily as motorists drive into gas stations to fill her up and check the oil and water.” ON PAGES 6 AND 7

PARIS—Stewardess Rosa Magrutsch braves a torrential downpour to become one of the first persons to get a look at the full-size aluminum mockup...of the Anglo-French supersonic Concorde as it is maneuvered into position at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget May 25. The first pro­

totype of the Concorde (not the mockup) is being built at Toulouse, France and is scheduled to make its maiden flight on February 28, 1968. A second prototype is being built at Bristol, England and will take to the air several months later.