Solar Impulse, has arrived in Le Bourget at its second attempt on Tuesday after three days’ delay, ready for a debut at the biennial International Paris Air Show. The 1.6-ton solar-powered plane was expected to land in Paris on Saturday but technical problems and bad weather forced it to turn back to Brussels.

Piloted by Solar Impulse’s co-founder and chief executive André Borschberg it took off from the military section of Brussels airport at 5.10am on Tuesday, taking advantage of a small weather window between rain fronts and landed 14 minutes ahead of schedule at Bourget airport in Paris at 9.16pm. The aircraft had to circle for several hours before landing because of heavy air traffic around Charles de Gaulle airport.

At the Paris Air Show  it will fly each morning from 20 June.

Source and photo: Solar Impulse

Earlier today we were able to get into the official website of the Paris Air Show at: http://www.paris-air-show.com/en  There all types of visitors should be able to find answers to all their specific questions about visiting the Paris Air Show 2011.

At this time the mentioned official website of the paris air show is offline, we are trying to contact GIFAS and get more information how to attend the show as members of the press, trade- or regular visitor.

As soon as we know where and how to contact GIFAS for further questions we will publish that here.

Regards,

Parisairshow.eu team.

Specially for the Paris Air Show Zijde Aviation Photo and Publishing claimed, and opened this site ‘ParisAirshow.eu’

On this site the news before, from and after the Paris Air Show will be shared with our visitors.

This is as an addition to www.aviationnews.eu where also shownews will be published.

Regards,

M. van Leeuwen,

Zijde Aviation Photo and Publishing.