How the RAF almost acquired Mirage IVs: An insider’s story
http://hushkit.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/how-the-raf-almost-acquired-mirage-ivs/A fascinating episode that is rarely discussed is how close Britain’s RAF got to adopting Mirage IVs. This insider’s account of this unusual episode in aviation’s annals is taken from Charles Gardner’s ‘British Aircraft Corporation – A History’. This true story starts shortly after the shock-cancellation of the BAC TSR.2…
…The idea was to get the government to take jointly made Mirage IV airframes fitted with Spay engines instead of buying the F-111. This, BAC argued, could provide a highly efficient TSR.2 replacement aircraft, fully capable of performing the TSR.2 tasks, at a total cost, for seventy-five aircraft of under £2 million each.
Mirage IV flight tests as a bomber (8x 1,000lb bombs) for the RAF requirement (1965)
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