Musée de l’Air et espace

  I had a chance to visit with one of my Australian mates several museums in Paris over the last week. One museum that I had never visited before is the musee de l’air. All in all a fabulous museum and well worth the time. We spent five hours there. The shop is great although a little pricey and all books are in French. 

Some great displays of balloons, WW1, mid war, ww2, Cold War and modern aircraft and helicopters. Enjoy the pics guys.

As followers would know a big fan of ww1 aircraft and a number of rare aircraft there! Really impressed with the layout, but as usual hard to photograph IMHO. 

The best display by far was for ww2 was the Régiment de Chasse Normandie-Niémen, flying Yak3,5 and 9. The squadron, which served on the Eastern Front of the European theatre of World War II with the 1st Air Army, is notable as one of only three units from Western Allied countries to see combat on the Eastern Front during the war and was the only Western Allied unit which fought with Soviet forces until the end of the war in Europe.

Yak3 of the Normandie Niemen squadron

Tail of the Yak 3

Roundel Normandie Niemen 

Ww2 Hall

A nice number of aircraft in the hall the majority serving in the French armee d’Air or flown by French pilots. Only the one German aircraft there, would loved to have seen a French bomber but not to be….

Cold War beauties 

Lots of Cold War French, German, Warpac and Swedish aircraft on display