| Pentecost week-end is the traditional date for the now world
famous air-show at Cerny. The aerodrome is close to where my parents had
their farm, I used to pedal up the hill watch the glider ballet and the
Morane Saulnier drop their tow rope right in front of us. My father watched
anxiously low flying gliders, occasionally one of them, unable to reach the
airstrip, would land in a wheat field, spoiling some of the crop. |
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To face increasing traffic, Orly had to open Runway 02.
Airliners objected having high flying gliders playing around their flight
path. Glider activity had to stop. Jean Baptiste Salis re-enacted, 50 years
later, the crossing of the Channel in 1909, with a Blériot XI he restored
for the occasion. Movies were shot with vintage planes restored or rebuilt there. Soon
there were enough flying machines to present the best WW I air show in Europe. |
