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OCR: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY While the flying display is always a cro wd-puller, the static aircraft dis play area at Le Bourget draws its fair share of visitors BAe 1000 corporate jet cally designed to transport them from point A to point B around the world. Staged biennially, the Paris Air Show has a per- At the 40th manent site at Le Bourget, which is very close to Paris Air Show the French capital, only nine kilometres outside held June 11-20, the city limits. The slowest choice to get there is 1993, the public by road, due to the large amount of traffic, espe- had access on cially early in the morning, and many visitors opt five out of 10 for a train service that leaves regularly from the days, and thousands of citizens, paying 45 French Gare du Nord station and takes just under half an francs (about US$7.50) for a daily ticket, were hour to reach Le Bourget. able to pick their way among exhibits of passen- An integral part, and a crowd-puller, of the air ger aircraft, business jets, helicopters, engines, show is inevitably the flying display. Aircraft avionics equipment and other high-technology which took to the air during the 40th Paris Air equipment which support an industry that is basi- Show included an array of civil and military fixed-