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Old 26-09-2012, 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by wasyoungonce View Post
I was at Williamtown back in early 80's....we had a Lambo take on a Mirage III0 over 400 metres.

Mirage won...well they did use a dual aircraft (lighter) with one pilot and min fuel load.

Lambo took of nicely but III0 reeled it in real quick from ~300m mark.

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Well I'll be blowed...a video of the event on youtube, here.
Scary how little Willytown seemed to have changed, I was there in the lat 90's. Even saw the old SURAD RADAR I used to work on in the clip. They only decommissioned that in 2000!
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