Aussie Mirages - where?
The Matra R530 radar guided missile has all its tail fins but is missing the four wings although the four "spars" are still present. The item on the centreline is an AN/ALQ-72 ECM pod. I am advised that they were used mainly to familiarise RAAF pilots with the effects of having become a jammee! A3-16 is still missing a few bits so all contributions will be gratefully accepted 
IIRC the Mirage III was never nuclear capable and could not be made so. There is a lot more to the job than attaching a bucket of sunshine to a weapons rack. The Australian jets were pretty much fit for spares only which is I believe what happened to them.
IIRC the Mirage III was never nuclear capable and could not be made so. There is a lot more to the job than attaching a bucket of sunshine to a weapons rack. The Australian jets were pretty much fit for spares only which is I believe what happened to them.
And plenty of innuendo on their Nuclear capability, eg Jet sales to Pakistan haunt Canberra - National - theage.com.au
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Did you ever souvenir a few bits during your pre flights, Bloggs?
FFS, I've still got something you passed on to me......I think!
There was that....er...no.. I think I lost that when I last moved house
but there was that....ummm
A3-28...
Re: A3-28 ejection by D.M. Johnson, I heard a rumour many years ago that he was the first ejection from a Mirage in OZ, believe he was Doug Johnson (DCA) who did my initial instrument rating check in Brisbane in 1977, can anyone confirm?
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A3-28 ejection was 18 months after A3-1 lost with high speed ejection, said by some to be first supersonic ejection.
That was an RAAF Mirage flown by RAF pilot during test flying, as I recall.
http://www.adf-serials.com.au/resear...crew-eject.pdf
That was an RAAF Mirage flown by RAF pilot during test flying, as I recall.
http://www.adf-serials.com.au/resear...crew-eject.pdf
Hi 'Big Boys'.....Care to tell me how a 'miracle 3' could not intercept or get 'anywhere near' ze Concorde, when ze Concorde visited ze SY, way back when.....
OUR 'top fighter interceptor' no catchee...?? Despite a couple of attempts...??
Once when 'she' was arriving...and ze ozer when 'she' was departing...??
Had we been 'at war', and 'she' was ze enemy bomber, zen we would 'ave been ...'fecked'.....??
n'est-ce-pas..??
Cheers and standing by pour ze incoming.....
OUR 'top fighter interceptor' no catchee...?? Despite a couple of attempts...??
Once when 'she' was arriving...and ze ozer when 'she' was departing...??
Had we been 'at war', and 'she' was ze enemy bomber, zen we would 'ave been ...'fecked'.....??
n'est-ce-pas..??
Cheers and standing by pour ze incoming.....
The Miracle may have had speed, but she didn't have endurance - during war games at Willy they were defending the base against USAF F-15. The 15s would come zooming in, our lads would wait until they got close enough, then launch for an intercept - but the Yanks would turn and run to make the Mirage chase them. When they hit Bingo fuel and turned around, the 15s followed them back to Willy and played games overhead while our short-legged birds landed and were getting refuelled.
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And I suspect, Griffo, that the Mirage jocks would 'ave been saying things like 'merde' or even stronger epithets!
A3-28 ejection was 18 months after A3-1 lost with high speed ejection, said by some to be first supersonic ejection.
That was an RAAF Mirage flown by RAF pilot during test flying, as I recall.
That was an RAAF Mirage flown by RAF pilot during test flying, as I recall.
That was Tony Svensson, a lovely bloke, he sailed with my father and I on weekends.
I seem to recall that he had engine flameout and attempted to dive for a restart. He may have been supersonic. Either his leg restraints weren't fitted correctly or broke and he suffered broken legs and arms. I went to see him in hospital a few times.
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"and played games overhead while our short-legged birds landed and were getting refuelled".
Not entirely my recollection from 1981 at 77 Sqn. We had some of our Mirages fitted with centre line tanks to get around that. There's a few photos out there showing a Mirage gunsight pipper sitting rather uncomfortably on an Okinawa ZZ Squadron F-15C..
Not entirely my recollection from 1981 at 77 Sqn. We had some of our Mirages fitted with centre line tanks to get around that. There's a few photos out there showing a Mirage gunsight pipper sitting rather uncomfortably on an Okinawa ZZ Squadron F-15C..
