Paris Air Show flying exhibition

PARIS--Despite the fact that many of the visitors during the first days of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget here are military personnel looking to buy their next order of helicopters or fighter jets, all the business seems to stop when it's time for the flying exhibitions.

Each day during the show--which is the largest air show in the world--the afternoon is filled with one flying demonstration after another, be it a bi-plane doing aerobatics, a giant Airbus A380 showing what it can do without the worries of upsetting passengers, or as in the case of this photograph, a fighter jet showing its chops. Each exhibitor is given six minutes to show their stuff. And then it's on to the next one.