Logistics aside, the big air shows are magnets for top politicians. Where the first day's coverage of the Paris Air Show was dominated by pictures of French Prime Minister Francois Fillon striding purposefully across the Le Bourget airfield, day one of MAKS 2007 was very much about photo ops for Vladimir Putin. Here, the Russian president visits the children's art section.
The sky blue model aircraft in the front looks very much like a model of the
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