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We also have the precious testimony of Dassault best all time test pilot, Jean Marie Saget (still alive, aged 88).It was Saget that established most Mirage speed and height records of the golden age (1955 - 1985) for example flying a Mirage III to 80 000 ft in the early 60's, and that includes the G8-02 speed record of July 13, 1973. Saget said that the plane was still accelerating like a bat outta hell, but the Atars were at the top of their thermal barriers.While the G8-01 was piously preserved at MAE, the G8-02 got an infamous fate: it was cut to the bones, and only the cockpit and airframe structure were preserved, as a flight simulator. That relic was saved, and now lies at the Musée Européen de l'Aviation de chasse, in Montelimar. Sic transit gloria mundi ! http://www.pyperpote.tonsite.biz/listinmae/images/listinmae/appareils/dassault/mirage_G8/Mirage-G8-02.jpgheartbreaking.
We also have the precious testimony of Dassault best all time test pilot, Jean Marie Saget (still alive, aged 88).
It was Saget that established most Mirage speed and height records of the golden age (1955 - 1985) for example flying a Mirage III to 80 000 ft in the early 60's, and that includes the G8-02 speed record of July 13, 1973. Saget said that the plane was still accelerating like a bat outta hell, but the Atars were at the top of their thermal barriers.
While the G8-01 was piously preserved at MAE, the G8-02 got an infamous fate: it was cut to the bones, and only the cockpit and airframe structure were preserved, as a flight simulator. That relic was saved, and now lies at the Musée Européen de l'Aviation de chasse, in Montelimar. Sic transit gloria mundi !
http://www.pyperpote.tonsite.biz/listinmae/images/listinmae/appareils/dassault/mirage_G8/Mirage-G8-02.jpg
heartbreaking.
