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Yet another long week-end and I am being late once again! I might be even later than Airbus is with their A380 delayed deliveries! 
In my basket this week are airliners and a few rare planes, a few decades old!
So, here are two aircraft from the French Air Force; a Mirage IIIC flying over the Mediterranean Sea and a C-135F with its former cigar-shaped engines!!
Complete change of atmosphere now with shots taken at Biscarosse 12th International Air Show. Shown here is Jean-Jacques Lörtscher's yellow Twin Bee and the Cessna Caravan that flew all week-end!
Now, before I show you the rest, here are three pictures by Claude de Saint Etienne who is leaving us; he is moving in the Centre of France and will not be able to go to Paris-Orly any longer. However, we wish him a peaceful life there, but we still hope to see him round occasionally! 
Eventually, classical aircraft: an A310 being scrapped, an An-12 et a fully-red Britten-Norman BN-2!
See you on next Monday for our weekly Screeners' Choice (if I am not late). 
The week-end was longer than I thought and I got a little late. I thought I was still on holiday!!! And spending my time by the beach, at Biscarosse in France for the 12th International Seaplane Air Show, was an extraordinary experience!
Anyway, I'd better stop bothering you with my stories ... Here comes this week's choice. Luckily, it is rather varied: fewer airliners actually.
First of all, two superb shots of a Yak-3, based and registered in France.
Then, here is a photo of Iren Dornier Project's Do-24 ATT, Claudius Dornier's grandson, together with UNICEF; the flying boat was at Biscarosse too, along with myself:
Right, I can show you bigger ones now: A Piaggio Avanti and an A319:
Finally, have to show you the large planes! Amongst them, one of the A380 prototypes, which should end her career very soon:
That's all for the week. The air show season has just started. We hope to see your pictures in the weeks and the months to come! And see you on next Monday for our weekly Screeners' Choice.
Sorry, I know I am late! I am moving to a new apartment, here is this week's choice!
See you next MOnday for a longer article in our weekly Screeners' Choice.
You'd better like airliners this week! More than the previous week, there are almost only airliners, except an Alphajet and an EC-145 ... even military aircraft are militarised airliners (the C135 for instance!).
So, here is what we have chosen!
First of all, the A380 show of the week:
Not to forget that MSN 9 - F-WWEA is to end her career as a test plane and will be moved to the Assembly Line and will later be delivered ... MSN 8 - F-WWSE is to be Singapore Airlines' fourth A380, and her final registration shall be 9V-SKD.
Then, still wide-bodies with 777s!
Downscaling now with a Lufthansa A321, with the airline's former colour scheme. Then, a Fokker 50 and Airbus A320 prototype.
Here are now the military planes; among them is a Dornier Do-31 that is stored in Germany at the Deutsches Museum.
Eventually, some team members have chosen photos of an EC-145 of the French Civil Security; those shots were taken by Jonathan D.!
That's it! See you on Monday for our next Screeners' Choice.
04-25-2008: second UPDATE:
Marc-A Veillard (many thanks!) has just sent two photos of two different A320-100s that were not on the databse: MSN 8 - G-BUSC; the first British Airways A320-100 on Pictaero; and MSN 14 - F-GFKD, an other Air France A320-100!
Pictures can be viewed below, in the list!
04-25-2008: UPDATE:
Jean-Marc D. has just sent us a photo of MSN 2 - F-GFKQ which I have added to the list below!
Other members sent us their pictures of Air France A320-100s! The database is filling up! Only a few are missing! Well done to you all!!
04-20-2008: UPDATE:
Claude de St Etienne sent us A320-100 photos that have just been accepted. Among them, the 7000th photo on Pictaero. Have a look at it below; it is F-GGEB - MSN 12.
Besides, MSN 3 - F-GGEG was sold to the United States on April 16th; it is no longer active with Air France.
04-17-2008: UPDATE:
many thanks to Guillaume for sending two photos of MSN 5 - F-GFKA .
I shall add a link to them below.
Last week, as I was at Toulouse airport, I saw an Air France A320 afar, without her tail, engines and completely hidden ... it was in fact F-GGEF (MSN 4).
So, I then looked up on Pictaero.com to check if there were "traces" of that aircraft, which will unfortunately never see the sky any longer. There was one: I would like to thank Claude de St Etienne for that shot.
Then, I thought that those first A320s, known as A320-100, would have their lives ended soon. I was glad to see that there was quite a number of them on Pictaero ... here is a list of all twenty-one of them, with a picture whenever the plane is on Pictaero's database!
Of course, "Bravo Alpha" is and will be Airbus's prototype for all testing, with new IAE engines at the moment for instance.
Air France (and Air inter formerly) has operated 15 planes:
Eventually, British Airways has operated five A320-100. Unfortunately, only one of them currently is on Pictaero.
The list is over. Now, that is where you play your part! Your pictures will fill the gaps in the list. Those planes don't have much time left before they are stored and stop flying. It would really be a pity to miss them! That's why I count on you to send your photos, be it old or recent, and we will update the list in some time from now.
