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I am pretty sure that a very senior current serving ex knuck test pilot landed the static display Mirage at Laverton prior to the 1978 airshow
If this is true then the brakes would have been red hot as Laverton had short runways. I can't imagine any test pilot being authorised to operate a Mirage into Laverton which may explain why the original ARDU trials on the Mirage were at Avalon?
I personally saw an ARDU test pilot land Mirage A3-2 (very skilfully) on Rwy 22 Laverton in 1977. The brakes were fine...