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PARIS 2009: Protecting Le Bourget

23rd June 2009 - 12:00 GMT | by Tony Osborne in Le Bourget

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An airborne ring of steel was thrown around this year's Paris Air Show, but not that you would have noticed.

Thousands of Gendarmes and members of the Police Nationale were on duty on the ground and there were even rumours of surface-to-air missile sites in the trees.

But protection of the Le Bourget skies however fell to the crews of EC03.067 'Parisis' the French Air Force's Paris-based squadron of AS355 Fennec helicopters who are responsible for air policing, known as MASA, or 'mesure active de surete aerienne'.

Rotorhub.com visited the squadron, based at Villacoublay in May. Located in a corner

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Tony Osborne

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Tony was deputy editor of Defence Helicopter and Rotorhub magazines before joining Aviation Week in …

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