This week's Farnborough
Air Show in England brought out all the usual suspects--aircraft makers eager to show off their established planes and to tout their works in progress, with an eye toward impressing shareholders, customers, rivals, and the public at large. The air industry trade event is celebrating its 60th anniversary.
Here, a visitor looks at a Swedish-made Saab Gripen fighter plane.
As at any such event, much of the action takes place on the ground, but the true excitement for most people has to be the flyovers....
Photo by AFP photo/Carl de Souza
Caption by Jonathan Skillings
