I used to watch this as a kid growing up and thought the Mirages were so cool. Rediscovered on YouTube recently. 50 years on, I look at it a bit differently but it brings back some good memories and was one more step in keeping me crazy about airplanes.
The stories are pretty cheezy, some of the acting pretty lame and if this were real, our intrepid pilots here would have been booted out of the service for ejecting every third flight it seems, but it has some good footage of French aviation from the era.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk3HTY378CNpV4JfLXfcDNQ/videos Thoughtfully subtitled for us folks weak in the French language.
The stories are pretty cheezy, some of the acting pretty lame and if this were real, our intrepid pilots here would have been booted out of the service for ejecting every third flight it seems, but it has some good footage of French aviation from the era.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk3HTY378CNpV4JfLXfcDNQ/videos Thoughtfully subtitled for us folks weak in the French language.
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