Farewell Mirage F.1 Mont de Marsan 12./13. June 2014

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Farewell Mirage F.1 Mont de Marsan 12./13. June 2014

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Good evening,

I spent a total of three days down at Mont de Marsan to witness the official withdrawal of the legendary Mirage F.1 from service in the French Air Force. A total of four Fox Ones received a special camo for the final retirement ceremonie. After all a well organized but quite sad event. A big thank you to the organizers!




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Beautiful pictures! Image

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Excellent! Must have been over 30 years or so ago, but once I saw a documentary on a french F1 squadron, no clue anymore what exactly about, only know it ended with a (fake?) bird strike. Anyway, ever since been a fan of the aircraft. Something about it, shame to never see it again.
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Great shots and will be sadly missed, although they are still flying at other 'less accessible' Air Forces.
Excellent! Must have been over 30 years or so ago, but once I saw a documentary on a french F1 squadron, no clue anymore what exactly about, only know it ended with a (fake?) bird strike. Anyway, ever since been a fan of the aircraft.
That was 1980 and the name of the 1 hour documentaire is 'Orange est vert'.
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That was 1980 and the name of the 1 hour documentaire is 'Orange est vert'.
It was shot on Orange indeed, knew that! Didn't know it was shot in 80, for sure that wasn't when i watched it but thanks for the title, I'm gonna try and see if I can find it somewhere. I know I must have it on a betamax videotape somewhere... lol
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Good to see you like the shots. Here's one more showing all four special tails together:

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Very nice indeed!
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Thank you for THE Nice pictures. Looping forward to see them in Nancy
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