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  • Four business partners are in the middle of a meeting at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. Seated within a private area that looks like a cage, they engage in conversation on this stylish stand that also features a lush oasis of green vegetation. The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
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  • Faceless Russian delegates are in deep discussion in a hall at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. With the flag of the Russian Federation strategically placed to the right of the stand, the three anonymous are secretively talking business in a group meeting, their crumpled suits show they have been working on this project for many hours or days. Two of the men have exchanged business cards to make new contacts. The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
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  • Rolls of turf are rolled up by exhibition workers at the end of a long day at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. Removing the real grass from at the CFM stand (a company formed from SNECMA and General Electric jet engines) that manufactures a family of 7,200 commercial and military jet engines for Airbus and Boeing airliners. The men bend over to make a tight roll of organic lawn to keep it fresh and watered overnight before another hot day in this hall. Alongside them, a giant turbofan engine is seen, its huge turbine blades lit by artificial lights. The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
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  • Scaled seating of an A380 airliner is displayed at the Airbus/EADS stand during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • The Airbus family of jet airliners are mounted on a display board during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Writer Alain de Botton leans against a giant jet engine of manufacturer CFM during the the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget and while researching his book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Hamish Hamilton 2009).
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  • A young woman stands in front of a turbofan of engine manufacturer CFM during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Man touches scale model of A380 airliner displayed at the Airbus/EADS stand during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • Legs and scale model of an A380 airliner displayed at Airbus/EADS stand during the Paris Air Show exhibition Le Bourget
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  • A young lady perches on a stool outside an aircraft cabin mock-up during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Airliners and grass promote the environment at engine manufacturer CFM stand during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • Ending France's Bastille Day parade, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, leave a trail of smoke over the pyramid peak of the Louvre art museum in the centre of Paris. Leaving vapour trails of red, white and blue smoke to mark the 100th anniversary of the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale. They were chosen by the French authorities to close the fly-pasts. British armed forces paraded in the historic parade for the first time. Under blue skies on a perfect summer day, the squadron lined up in their classic fly-past 'V-shape' called 'Big Battle', following the straight line of the Champs Elysees then eastwards over the Parisian suburbs. Personnel from four British military units were present and French Air Force jets performed their own fly-past to open the parade, while the British Hawk jets of the Red Arrows had the honour of completing it. .
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  • Two employees of the Japanese aircraft manufacturer Mitsubishi sit in a full-scale model of their MRJ at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. Seated in different rows of this stylish small regional jet, they awkwardly stare expressionless, straight ahead and although the seats are real, the mock-up fuselage is in the middle of an exhibition hall. The MRJ is a next generation jetliner with 70 or 90 seat economy class configurations, the first regional jet to adopt composite materials for its wings and vertical fins on significant scale. The Paris Air Show expo is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry who demonstrate military and civilian aircraft equipment to interested customers.
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  • Two army officers from Ecuador admire an air-to-ground PARS 3 LR missile at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. The two men (the man on the right's name badge says M Pazmino), admire the sleek design of the missile called PARS 3 LR in German but known as TRIGAT-LR (Third Generation AntiTank, Long Range) and AC 3G in the French military, the missile is a high-precision 'fire-and-forget' weapon system for engaging mobile and stationary targets equipped with the latest generation of armour protection, such as tanks, field fortresses, bunkers and other high-value targets. The system can launch up to four salvos in eight seconds. .The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
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  • A delegate sends a text message from a mobile phone in a mock-up airliner cabin at the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • Abandoned motorcycle covered in river weed and mud is exposed by low-tide Thames waters at Greenhithe, Kent
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  • Correspondents whisper before a Pratt & Whitney press announcement at the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Delegates are shown wing composite technology by man from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency at the Paris Air Show exhibition
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  • Japanese employees demonstrate their full-size Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) cabin interior at the Paris Air Show exhibition
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  • Rocket exhibitor at the Paris Air Show, June 2007.
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  • Chinese delegates man the Shanghai China Great Wall Industry Corporation stand at the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • A short-skirted Russian lady perches on a stool during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Two military officers from Ecuador admire an air-to-ground PARS 3 LR missile at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France
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  • Delegates at the French government-owned weapons manufacturer Nexter near nose-mounted helicopter cannon.
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  • Japanese lady delegate sits outside full-size mock-up the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) cabin at the Paris Air Show exhibition
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  • Full-size mock-up of a Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) cockpit and cabin catering interior areas at the Paris Air Show exhibition
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  • A short-skirted Russian lady perches on a stool during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • An attractive female employee carries snacks through an exhibition hall during the Paris Air Show  at Le Bourget airfield
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  • A male chauffeur of African-descent makes a mobile telephone call at the Rolls-Royce chalet at the Paris Air Show exhibition
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  • Spectators at the French Capgemini and Russian Defence Export chalets watch flying displays outide during the Paris Air Show
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  • Delegates watch flying displays outide during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Delegates of the Moscow Khrunichev Space Center await new business at the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Young lady sits at the desk of aerospace alloys manufacturer Kumz during the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget
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  • A young lady looks uncomfortable sitting all day on a stand at the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget airfield
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  • Ending France's Bastille Day parade, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, streak over the pyramid peak of the Louvre art museum in the centre of Paris. Leaving vapour trails of red, white and blue smoke to mark the 100th anniversary of the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale. They were chosen by the French authorities to close the fly-pasts. British armed forces paraded in the historic parade for the first time. Under blue skies on a perfect summer day, the squadron lined up in their classic fly-past 'V-shape' called 'Big Battle', following the straight line of the Champs Elysees then eastwards over the Parisian suburbs. Personnel from four British military units were present and French Air Force jets performed their own fly-past to open the parade, while the British Hawk jets of the Red Arrows had the honour of completing it. .
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  • Abandoned motorcycle covered in river weed and mud is exposed by low-tide Thames waters at Greenhithe, Kent
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  • Abandoned motorcycle covered in river weed and mud is exposed by low-tide Thames waters at Greenhithe, Kent
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  • French aviation enthusiasts at an airshow at Le Mans in northern France watch aerobatics overhead - in front of a scaled replica of The Flyer, the first powered aeroplane by the American Wright Brothers. The Wright Flyer is the first successful powered aircraft, designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it for the first time on December 17th, 1903 for 12 seconds over 120 feet near the Kill Devil Hills, about four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S. Today, the airplane is exhibited in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. though many scaled copies exist at similar events such as this.
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  • A poster stuck into the ground promoting a book during the bi-annual aerospace industry expo at the Farnborough airshow, about the Concorde supersonic airliner, on the day an Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris on 25th July 2002.
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  • CFM engine stand, Paris Air Show.<br />
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Specially selected text by Alain de Botton that accompanies a limited edition Lambda digital framed print created for an exhibition commissioned by and staged at The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The text is copyright Alain de Botton, 2009.<br />
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