In 1908, the frenchman gustave rives was holding his second Paris Motor Show in the Grand Palais, just off the Champs Elysees. As an added attraction, he decided to add some of the marvelous new machines called aeroplanes to the exhibition, barging several aircraft up the Seine and carting them over to the exhibit area—creating in the process what was to become the famed Paris Air Show. The next year Andre Granet and Robert Esnault-Pelterie held an aeronautical exhibit in the Grand Palais specifically for aircraft, with 380 exhibitors in attendance—and the world's first show totally devoted to aircraft was born, containing airplanes, balloons and information pretty much everything know about aeronautics up to that date. Today, the Paris Air Show is the largest air show in the world in terms of exhibitors and aircraft on display and a major venue for unveiling new aircraft. The 2005 Paris Air Show is no exception. Airbus is expected to show its new giant, the 550-passenger A380, while Boeing will be showing the 777-200LR, newest member of the 777 family.
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