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Weird ass boat found in the jungles of Sri Lanka
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The link to the third article is incorrect, please revise.
Otherwise, great articles.
some nice NOE flying from SA :)
That was a great vid, amazing scenery, nice flying, and nice change of music from most stuff like that.
I’m guessing the ‘weird boat’ link was about this: http://www.eaglespeak.us/2009/02/sri-lanka-interesting-ltte-boats.html
The SAAF has Mirages?
Sam — yes, they used them with some success in Angola. Now they’re switching to the SAAB Gripen.
To the rest, link is fixed! Thanks for the heads up.
Dude, you are 50 feet off of the ground and you are going 300mph….. don’t look down at your map!
Yes the SAAF used Mirage F1s as its primary fighter/fighter-bomber during the Angolan conflict. There is a book “Vlamgat” that describes their use.
Unfortunately the video is not of SAAF F1s. They are French F1s stationed in Chad. The SAAF F1s did not have the aerial refueling probe as the F1s in the video have. This clip has shown up in various forms.
The SAAF trained their pilots to fly low due to the layered Russian made SAM systems in Angola. It actually reduced training accidents and led to very few combat losses.
nice catch Peter, the F1s have been phased out for some time now and I was wondering how the boom found its way to a SA plane..are there still F1s in Chad?
hello,
looks like this is French Air Force.
SAAF never flew F-1. they had Mirage III EZ.
regards