When it comes to boys and their toys, it doesn't get bigger than the Paris Air Show. The latest in attack helicopters and stealth fighters line the tarmac nose-to-tail with double-decker Airbus A38Os, a Boeing Dreamliner and a solar-powered plane. Chattering Chinese military officers stroll past American antiaircraft batteries as French President Nicolas Sarkozy's motorcade roars up to inspect displays of Gallic aeronautical prowess. For all the high-tech flights of fancy and firepower at the June event, the biggest thing to hit aviation in generations is a tiny brown seed on exhibit at one of the Costco-size pavilions at Le Bourget airport It comes from an inedible weed called camelina, and it fueled the flight I took from Morristown, NJ. to Paris aboard a Gulfstream G450 belonging to Honeywell.
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