I Guarantee You Don't Know At Least One Of These Planes

Real World Aviation Spotting
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Hello, IFC!

Last week, LFLY (Lyon Bron Airport) hosted an annual airshow called the France Air Expo. It’s a fun little event where general aviation companies come to display their latest and greatest products and little goblins like me go from stand to stand to steal all the free pens.

Here are some pictures of the event (I went there)

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A Bristell taxiing by (I was wearing a high-vis, it’s all legal)

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A Piper Fury in a very strange color that looked very different in real life than it does on the pictures.

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A French Army helicopter (They weren’t part of the show, they were just doing an exercise)

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A PS-28 cruiser having an identity crisis (relatable, I want to become its friend)

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A DA-62 IOP, a special military version of the DA-62 with a bunch of cameras and sensors (IOP stands for Invasion of Privacy)

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Alto :+1:

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After the very red Alto, a very blue Cirrus

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A very funky plane that I really like but the odds of me ever flying on one are close to none

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A Cessna 182 Skylane

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A glider with an engine (so not a glider)
(Everything is a glider, some things are just better at gliding than others. See: Brick)

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A cri-cri, a comically small plane that you can only fly if you weigh less than 90kg (sorry, United Statesians)

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Bonjour

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Cya
Camille

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There are some beautiful liveries in that collection!

I think my favourite has to be this one:

Great photos Camille! And you were right I’d never heard of a few of these aircraft types!

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Agreed! I think the manufacturers tried to get the flashiest liveries possible for the event haha

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nice photos I like alto :+1:

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I knew that! (I don’t know anything else)

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paris spotters when the function has free pens

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I completely agree

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I’m actually working on a glider, except it’s really small, it’s red, it’s made of stone, it has no wings, and it’s shaped like a rectangular prism.

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Great photos once again—I just wanna say I love commercial airliners but seeing your topics of these general aviation photos is like a breath of fresh air!

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Why did I click that. :sweat_smile:

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5 other people did :joy:

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I thought there was a glider called brick or something. :rofl:

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But you are the glider @JeppyG.

:rofl:

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If you really think about it, we’re all gliders.

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