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The first Mirage 5 flew on 19 May 1967.[3] It looked much like the Mirage III, except that it had a long slender nose that extended the aircraft's length by about half a metre. A pitot tube was distinctively moved from the tip of the nose to below the nose in the majority of Mirage 5 variants.
The Mirage 5 retained the IIIE's twin DEFA guns, but added two additional pylons, for a total of seven. Maximum warload was 4,000 kg (8,800 lb). Provision for the SEPR rocket engine was deleted.
Rising tensions in the Middle East led French President Charles de Gaulle to embargo the Israeli Mirage 5s on 3 June 1967. The Mirages continued to roll off the production line, even though they were embargoed, and by 1968 the batch was complete and the Israelis had provided final payments.
In late 1969, the Israelis, who had pilots in France testing the aircraft, requested that the aircraft be transferred to Corsica, in theory to allow them to continue flight training during the winter. The French government became suspicious when the Israelis also tried to obtain long-range fuel tanks and cancelled the move. The Israelis finally gave up trying to acquire the aircraft and accepted a refund.
Israeli Nesher over the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War
Some sources claim that cooperation with France resumed outside the public's eye and Israel received 50 Mirage 5s in crates from the AdA, while the AdA took over the 50 aircraft originally intended for Israel, as Mirage 5Fs.[4][5][6] Officially, Israel claimed to have built the aircraft after obtaining complete blueprints, naming them IAI Nesher.[7][8]
Like the Mirage IIIE, the Mirage 5 was popular with export customers, with different export variants fitted with a wide range of different avionics. While the Mirage 5 had been originally oriented to the clear-weather attack role, with some avionic fits it was refocused to the air-combat mission. As electronic systems became more compact and powerful, it was possible to provide the Mirage 5 with increased capability, even though the rear avionics bay had been deleted, therefore in some sub-versions, the result was a "reinvented" Mirage IIIE.
Reconnaissance and two-seat versions of the Mirage 5 were sold, with the designation Mirage 5R, and Mirage 5D respectively. However, a little consideration of the differences between a Mirage III and a Mirage 5 quickly shows that these designations were simply for marketing purposes. There was no clear dividing line between the configuration of a Mirage III reconnaissance or trainer version and that of a Mirage 5 equivalent, and were one and the same in many cases.
The Mirage 5 was sold to Abu Dhabi, Belgium, Colombia, Egypt, Gabon, Libya, Pakistan, Peru, Venezuela, and Zaire, with the usual list of subvariant designations and variations in kit. The Belgian aircraft were fitted with mostly US avionics, and Egyptian aircraft fitted with the MS2 attack avionics system from the Dassault-Dornier Alpha Jet.
Argentine Air Force Mirage 5PA MARA, November 2005
In 1978 and 1980, Israel sold a total of 35 of their Neshers plus four Nesher trainer aircraft (Nesher Ts) to Argentina, where they were locally known first as Daggers and after their last upgrade as Fingers. The Argentines lost two IIIEA and 11 Daggers during the Falklands War in 1982, and, as a measure of solidarity, the Peruvians transferred ten of their Mirage 5s to Argentina, under the name Mirage Mara to help alleviate their losses.
South Africa purchased five Nesher trainers for trials during its own Atlas Cheetah fighter programme. All the aircraft were eventually upgraded to Cheetah D standard.[9]
Chile incorporated some Mirage 5s under name Mirage Elkan.
A total of 582 Mirage 5s were built, including 51 Israeli Neshers.
O.k. Yet another old rotting building. This is not a barn, I don’t think. I believe it’s a Feed barn and a Trappers Dry House. Or whatever they are called. It has Four rooms and a feed stall. A place to fatten up a Cow before…..Well you know. And a big room for hanging skins to dry. There’s still a deer skin on the outside above the door. I remember when it looked like a deer skin. First time I have ever got a close look at it. In the summer its completely covered in vines and growth .Hard to shoot because of all the growth around it now. but I tried.
The same place.
The same flower.
The early summer of Tokyo is the same this year.
Yoyogi park, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
I have the full size image of these photo's. They were resized for view on Flickr. Some may look as if I took the same shot more than once, if you notice you will see that there is some difference in each one. Either the clouds are different or it was shot from a different angle or the zoom was different. When you are taking photo's from above an image you will find that things are so different in viewing them. There are views of Roland E. Cook School in Vinton, the 9th Street Industrial Park in SE Roanoke, Community Hospital, Mill Mountain and the Star, Downtown Roanoke, Wachovia Building, Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke Catholic School, Lewis Gale Hospital, Roanoke Airport Tower, Rt 460 leading into downtown Roanoke, Mountains surrounding Roanoke, almost all of the Roanoke Valley are featured in one or more of these photo's except the SW County side. If you have any interest in any of these photo's please email me at photovirginia@cox.net for more details.
this image is what comes into my mind when i think of pearl farm. i think this picture can pass as a postcard.
Bar le Galion 56100 Lorient
11 07 2014
Canon Eos 50D
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storms, how i've missed you.
you've been the comfort and the enveloping warmth that covered me on so many nights i'd sneak away to be by myself in my own mind, surrounded by others.
i've missed the solitude others brought me, why can't i find it anymore?
Same leaf as the B&W version. It is a different photo and the postprocessing was done a bit different;-)
... I seem incapable of changing the way I decorate our tree. The only change is the lights, as the 40 year old ones died last year and had to be replaced.
Kiev 5 - Jupiter 12 (2.8/35mm)
Caffenol with a lot of digital post processing. (blur, grain, clouds etc...)
Same Osprey, this time reacting to the unwanted attention of a Black-billed Magpie just out of shot.
Hubby had been looking for the photo on the left for almost a year so that he could do this composite project. In preparing our living room to install hardwood flooring tomorrow, we found it in a bookshelf that had to be moved. He was so excited that it had been found he had to get it completed before we went to bed tonight. He hopes to get better at photo restoration and post an updated version soon. When we took the photo on the right we had no idea who lived in the house. It turned out that the mother of a distant cousin was the current owner.
Photos from the Brisbane Rally for Same Sex Marriage Rights organised my Equal Love, photos by Perhaps Magazine