The French Mirage IV bomber version was retired in 1996, although the Mirage 2000N and the Rafale have a taken on this role.

The Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California was named after the President in 1971.

Iceman journeys back in time and meets his parents before he was born, and battles Oblivion and Mirage.

Attention was also focused on the Air Force, with the pre-coup strength of 400 personnel and ten Northrop F-5 ' Freedom Fighter ' jet fighters planned to be supplemented with large-scale purchases of Mirage III fighters from France.

The first low-cost MIDI sampler was the Ensoniq Mirage, introduced in 1984.

Milken was largely involved with kick-starting investments in Nevada, which for many years was the fastest-growing state in the U. S. Milken funded the gaming industry, newspapers and homebuilders ; among the companies he financed were MGM Mirage, Mandalay Resorts, Harrah's Entertainment and Park Place.

After the Gulf War, Qatar's air force infrastructure was upgraded by France for $ 200 million, leading to the order of nine single Mirage 2000-5DEA multi-role combat aircraft and three two seat Mirage 2000-5DDA combat trainers in August 1994.

The supersonic Hawker Siddeley P. 1154 which competed with the Mirage IIIV for NATO use was cancelled even as the aircraft were being built.

CATIA started as an in-house development in 1977 by French aircraft manufacturer Avions Marcel Dassault, at that time customer of the CAD / CAM CAD software to develop Dassault's Mirage fighter jet, then was adopted in the aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding, and other industries.

Further air support was provided by US Navy units and French Air Force Mirage 2000Ds.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was created in an American comic book published by Mirage Studios in 1984 in Dover, New Hampshire.

He dismissed suggestions that the aircraft was an F-117, Mirage IV or fully swept wing F-111.

In 1974 they released their second album, the critically acclaimed Mirage on which Latimer showed he was adept on flute.

Rancho Mirage was incorporated in 1973 from a merger of Mirage Cove with five unincorporated areas known as the " Cove communities " ( Desert, Magnesia, Palmas, Tamarisk and Thunderbird ), but had 3, 000 permanent residents at the time.

Ford later bought a house in Rancho Mirage and was living there at the time of his death in 2006.

Though the Agua Caliente Resort and Casino was just outside the border of Rancho Mirage in an unincorporated area, the City of Rancho Mirage included the property as part of the city in an agreement with the tribe so they would have access to police and firefighting services.

The racial makeup of Rancho Mirage was 15, 267 ( 88. 7 %) White, 256 ( 1. 5 %) African American, 94 ( 0. 5 %) Native American, 651 ( 3. 8 %) Asian, 14 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 598 ( 3. 5 %) from other races, and 338 ( 2. 0 %) from two or more races.

In 2003, the Rancho Mirage was named the best resort town in the world by the London Imperial Traveler Magazine.

In 1987, a US Navy guided-missile frigate, the USS Stark, was hit by an Exocet anti-ship missile fired by an Iraqi Mirage F-1 fighter plane.

Harpo was cremated and his ashes were reportedly sprinkled into the sand trap at the seventh hole of the Rancho Mirage golf course, on which he occasionally played.

Mirage was raped by her former lover Deathwing and became pregnant with his child.

His " Sunnylands " winter estate in Rancho Mirage, California ( near Palm Springs ) hosted gatherings with such people as President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Charles, Prince of Wales and the late Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod, Mirage first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel # 4: The New Mutants ( 1982 ).

" Soon, Bob held a press conference and announced his plan with the caveat that his tower would be the icon of Las Vegas, and Steve Wynn's Mirage would be two miles from him, not the other way around.

The Second Life of Dr. Mirage is an American comic book series featuring the eponymous main character, co-created by writer / artist Bob Layton, illustrated by Bernard Chang, and published by Valiant Comics.

Although commonly dismissed as British propaganda, Argentine sources confirm claims that Black Buck was initially responsible for the withdrawal of a number of Mirage IIIEA from operations over the islands in order to protect the mainland.

He did the weapon systems testing for the Mirage 2000-C, Mirage 2000-N, Jaguar ATLIS, and FLIR aircraft, and was also responsible for flight safety for pilots, experimenters and flight engineers.

The Apple IIGS used a digital sound chip designed for the Ensoniq Mirage synthesizer, and later models used a custom sound system and upgraded processors, which drove other companies to improve their own offerings.

The French had a nominally Mach 2 Dassault Mirage IIIV fitted with no less than 8 lift engines that flew ( and crashed ), but did not have enough space for fuel or payload for combat missions.

Of particular note is the U. S. program in speech recognition for the Advanced Fighter Technology Integration ( AFTI )/ F-16 aircraft ( F-16 VISTA ), and a program in France installing speech recognition systems on Mirage aircraft, and also programs in the UK dealing with a variety of aircraft platforms.

By 1950 several design proposals for a supersonic interceptor were explored which included versions with swept wings, a tail-less delta wing ( similar to the Dassault Mirage IV ), side-body engine intakes, in-nose engine intakes ( similar to the Mig-21 ), turbine engines and rocket engines, and combinations of several.

" He underwent treatment at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California for his alcoholism.

Rancho Mirage owes its legacy to being a retirement haven for senior citizens since the 1950s.

However, Optimus Prime planned for this event, and sent Mirage to press a switch, buried deep within Cybertron, that would render all Transformers inert.

Despite this handicap the DFV won the 24 hours of Le Mans twice in its original 3. 0-litre form for Mirage and Rondeau ( although the Mirage win in 1975 was with a significantly de-tuned unit ).

The Mirage Casino in Las Vegas, the only Las Vegas casino to make odds on the fight, had Douglas as a 42 to 1 underdog for the fight.

In 2006, the Boxers sold their house in Greenbrae, where they had lived for many years, and moved to Rancho Mirage.

During the 1970s France produced its Dassault Mirage IV nuclear-armed bomber for the French Air Force as a part of its independent nuclear strike force: the Force de Frappe utilizing French-made bombers and IRBMs to deliver French-made nuclear bombs.

Stone is perhaps best remembered by the general public for the screenplays he wrote or co-wrote in the mid 1960s, Charade ( 1963 ), Father Goose ( 1964 ) and Mirage ( 1965 ).

The first multiple unit trainsets were bought for the introduction of the Taktfahrplan on the line Zurich – Meilen – Rapperswil in 1967: RABDe 12 / 12 " Mirage " ( 1965 ) and RABDe 8 / 16 " Chiquita " ( 1976 ).

To replace the TSR-2, the Air Ministry initially placed an option for the F-111K ( a modified F-111A with F-111C enhancements ) but also considered two other choices: a Rolls-Royce Spey ( RB. 168 Spey 25R ) conversion of a Dassault Mirage IV ( the Dassault / BAC Spey-Mirage IV ) and an enhanced Blackburn Buccaneer S. 2 with a new nav-attack system and reconnaissance capability, referred to as the " Buccaneer 2-Double-Star ".

Using Riggs's presumed dead status to their advantage, Murtaugh agrees to meet Shadow Company at El Mirage Lake to exchange himself for Rianne, knowing Shadow Company's plan is to kill them all anyway.

* May 1-BAE Sea Harriers attack Falklands targets for the first time and shoot down two Argentine Mirage III fighters.

On June 4, 2004, MGM Mirage announced a bid to acquire one of its major competitors, Mandalay Resort Group, for $ 68 per share plus assumption of debt.

The agreement called for MGM Mirage to pay $ 4. 8 billion and to assume $ 2. 5 billion in debt.

On October 31, 2006, MGM Mirage announced plans to sell Primm Valley Resorts to Herbst Gaming for $ 400 million.