This sounds disturbingly like the hype leading up to the debut of the Tupelov TU144 at an earlier Paris Air Show.
Will the Airbus 380 suffer the same fate?
Remember, Murphy is an optimist. Particularly where the arrogant are concerened. And the French are as arrogant as any on the planet (with very little reason).
The Tu144 crash was not a fault of the designers. The 144 was to do the same amount of time in the air as the Concorde, but at the last minute, the french cut the time in half, and changed its route. Then, the pilot had to do emergency action to miss a french fighter jet that strayed into the path of the plane, the pilot could not recover, as the action was past the stresses of the airframe.
Source: Soviet SST, by Howard Moon, great book about the 144.