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Aviation History
1959
1959 - 1862.PDF
FLIGHT, 21 August 1959 4f>47 1 Swashbuckler: Dassault Etendard IV M ship- borne strike fighter; inset ailerons and steep turns 2 Hot seat: Nord Griffon It turbo-ramjet; 100 km tail chase at 1,000 m.p.h. 3 Porisienne warpaint: Morane-Soulnier 760 four-in-hand of I'Armee de I'Air 4 Viewfinder: The Lycoming O-360-powered Dornier DO 2* STOL twin 5 Communicative twin: Dassault's Bastan- powered M.D.415 Communaute 6 Mystery picture: A tricolor performance by Mystere IVAs of la Patrouille de France 7 Down and out: Everything lowered, the Breguet Alize simulates a deck landing 8 Mirror Image? Mirage IIIA fighter (left) Mirage IV bomber (right) 9 Whitehead with Blackbums: The NA.39 in the hands of Blackburn's chief test pilot 10 Helter-skelter delta: Saab's 35A Drafcen, star individualist of the flying display In contrast, the four F-lOOs of the Skyblazers, in spate of jazzyred, white and blue noses, star-spangled blue fins and striped rudders, looked a little forlorn, and the lowering cloud ceilingrather suppressed a display that, on that particular day, was in danger of eclipse anyway. Their standard of competence wasexcellent, but the freshness and variety displayed by the French was lacking. So was the gauntlet thrown down to Treble One, and immedi-ately taken up by the fourteen black Hunters, nine led by S/L. P. Latham, and five by F/L. Brian Mercer. Impressively,they took off in tight two-group formation and reappeared in box nine and vie five, the nine quickly going into wineglass forma-tion and the five into line abreast and then fork to start an original (and generally successful) two-group display. Finally,the nine climbed high, looping in diamond formation and trailing smoke, opening, petal-like, into a bomb burst as they dived.Immediately the five nosed up into the smoke with trails of their own and broke upwards and outwards. Then they reformed foranother bomb burst and swung in from each side of the runway for an interleaved one-from-the-left, one-from-the-right landing.French and English honours were drawn about even.
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