PAF pilots managed to shoot down ten Israeli aircraft, including Mirages, Mystères and Vautours, without losses on their own side.

He was assigned to the Flight Test Center in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France, in 1979, where he flew various test projects on fighter and attack-type aircraft which included flying the different types of Mirages, Jaguar, and Crusader.

Five-speed manual transmission was standard, although an automatic was optional on all Mirages except the S coupe.

Mirages can be categorized as " inferior " ( meaning lower ), " superior " ( meaning higher ) and " Fata Morgana ", one kind of superior mirage consisting of a series of unusually elaborate, vertically-stacked images, which form one rapidly-changing mirage.

Mirages, or shinkirou ( 蜃気楼 ), may be seen over the sea in both spring and winter.

It also expressed an interest in upgrading its current F-16s and Mirages, possibly even purchasing second-hand F-15s.

He has logged more than 4, 000 hours flying time-3, 300 in jet aircraft-and has flown over 100 different types of aircraft-F-100, F-104, F-4, A-8, T-33, Lightning, Harrier, Hunter, Canberra, Jaguar, all types of Mirages, Mystère 4, Vautour, and other aircraft.

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* Jean-Claude Risset: Mirages, for six musicians and tape ( 1978 )

* Mirages, for 16 musicians and tape ( 1978 ) 24 '

The Mirages proven themselves very well and served as the Israeli Air Force's main fighter for many years.

Fighter escort was deemed necessary for this leg of the journey, so American fighters from the U. S. 6th Fleet escorted the transports to within 150 miles of Israel, where Israeli Air Force Phantoms and Mirages escorted them into Ben Gurion International Airport.

At the 1993 Tiger Meet, 74 Sqn won the coveted ' Silver Tiger ' trophy while competing against Mirages and F-16's, as Flt Lt Will Jonas said " Not bad for a training unit eh?!

Tremendous success was Pyotr Chardynin ’ s tragic melodrama The Mirages ( 1916 ), followed by the ‘ fancy drama ’ Beauty Must Reign in the World by Bauer, melodrama Fiery Devil, and another melodrama A Life for a Life, which turned one of the most popular films in Vera Kholodnaya ’ s career and brought her the title ‘ the Queen of Screen ’.

The other five extant films with Vera Kholodnaya are: Children of the Age ( 1915 ), The Mirages ( 1915 ), A Life for a Life ( 1916 ), A Corpse Living ( 1918 ), and Molchi, grust ... molchi ( 1918 ).

The coupe and 1987-1991 sedans were rebadged Mitsubishi Mirages, while the wagon was a rebadged Mitsubishi Expo LRV.

Since first generation Mirages were still under Australian production as the Colt, all three third generation body types were sold under the Lancer name in that market.

Abuse your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies.

* Mirages and Miracles.

Fortune and Misportunes of Global Fordism ( 1985 )( Mirages et miracles.

The 3-door hatchback and 4-door sedan were rebadged Mitsubishi Mirages, and the station wagon ( badged as either an Eagle Vista, or a Dodge / Plymouth Colt Vista ) was a rebadged Mitsubishi Chariot.

Eight MiGs are shot down by Israeli Mirages and a further three Su-7s are lost to Israeli anti-aircraft artillery and HAWK surface-to-air missiles.

December 9, 1969: Egyptian aircraft, with the assistance of newly delivered P-15 radars, defeats the Israelis in an aerial engagement, shooting down two Israeli Mirages.

The Mirages successfully targeted Pakistani camps and logistic bases in Kargil.

The Pakistan Air Force did not take active part allowing the IAF Mirages to fly at will.

Ecuador had also passed through a period of economic crisis of its own, but the FAE had kept in operational status a sizeable part of its fleet of Mirage F. 1JAs, IAI Kfir C. 2s, and SEPECAT Jaguars, with perhaps some ten Mirages, ten Kfirs, and four or six Jaguars in serviceable conditions ( approximate numbers ).

There were approx 4, 097 1977 Mirages made from MAT, but there were also Mirages created by Chevrolet dealerships, as the body add-ons and stripes were available ordered through dealer parts.

The top Mirages in Japan were called the " Cyborg ", featuring the turbocharged 1. 6-liter motor developing — the same as fitted to the GSR sedan.

It is surrounded by the southern waters of the World Ocean – alternatively ( depending on source ), it is washed by the Southern ( or Antarctic ) Ocean or the southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

Currently thousands of tourists and hundreds of scientists a year rely on the Antarctic transportation system.

* The Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities ( 1988 ) ( signed in 1988, not in force )

* The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was signed October 4, 1991 and entered into force January 14, 1998 ; this agreement prevents development and provides for the protection of the Antarctic environment through five specific annexes on marine pollution, fauna and flora, environmental impact assessments, waste management, and protected areas.

# REDIRECT Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty

Some research has been done on Antarctic phytoplankton as a carbon sink.

The first human born in the Antarctic was Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen born on 8 October 1913 in Grytviken, South Georgia.

The Antarctic region had no indigenous population when first discovered, and its present inhabitants comprise a few thousand transient scientific and other personnel working on tours of duty at the several dozen research stations maintained by various countries.

These include the Antarctic Treaty and Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, and Wetlands.

Penguins on the dimly lit Antarctic ice ; ... a family of gorillas, the male beating his chest, ... an American grizzly bear standing on his hind legs, ten or twelve feet tall, and staring me right in the eye.

* 1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.

The total number of degree confluences is 64, 442, of which 21, 543 are on land, 38, 409 on water, and 4, 490 on the Antarctic and Arctic ice caps.

The British Antarctic Survey operates a transcontinental air link between Port Stanley Airport and the Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula and servicing also other British bases in the British Antarctic Territory using a de Havilland Canada Dash 7.

* 1961 – Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.

* 1978 – Emilio Palma, first person born on the Antarctic continent

He found a concentration of 60 parts per trillion of CFC-11 over Ireland and, in a partially self-funded research expedition in 1972, went on to measure the concentration of CFC-11 from the northern hemisphere to the Antarctic aboard the research vessel RRS Shackleton.

Similarly the warming of the oceans is extending the oceanic thermocline layer of tropical oceans into the Arctic and Antarctic waters, preventing the rise of oceanic nutrients into the surface waters and eliminating the algal blooms of phytoplankton on which oceanic food chains depend.