Ejection from a Mirage III with Lindsay Boyd

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Ejection from a Mirage III with Lindsay Boyd

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Australian Military Aviation History

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On the 1st of April 1974, FLTLT Lindsay Boyd ejected from his RAAF Mirage III (A3-18) - this is his story.
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@marty1468 7 ай бұрын

Great story, thank you Lindsay and Peter. I went through RAAFSTT as a Gunnie in 1985 and the first ejection seat I worked on was the Mirage's OM-6 ejection seat and of course by then it had been modified to have a rocker motor incorporated which made it zero-zero capable. I was subsequently posted to Hornets at 3 Sqn and so didn't ever get to work on a Mirage, but I loved seeing them fly around Williamtown for the next 3 years until their retirement.

@thadiusthudpucker 4 ай бұрын

Was working on 75 Sqn flight line when Lindsay made this flight. We actually spent Sunday water skiing at Merdeka beach the day before

@raafdocumentaries 4 ай бұрын

Awesome.

@Homoprimatesapiens 7 ай бұрын

Its good to hear ex pilots my age experiences and knowledge about the a.c they had flown. Well done and thank you.

@user-om1sg2mg6s 7 ай бұрын

So great to hear you tell your story Lins. So proud of you and extremely happy that my little brother lived to tell the tale.

@Kneedragon1962 7 ай бұрын

Thanks to Lindsay for sharing that. Happy April Fool's day. I think if you got out of a Mirage at that height and got to the ground while the canopy was still opening ~ if you lived another 50 years after that, you're doing alright. I can remember being told as a kid, the glide ratio of a Mirage III was 9 : 1 ~ that's 9 down to one forward. We have this string of jokes & one-liners about pigs that fly and gliding like a brick, but that beast really did. The funny thing about them was, the F4 Phantom had a reputation of being a truck. The Mirage had a reputation of being a racing car. As long as you had 300 KIAS or so on the clock, they were a very swift, very agile, very responsive aeroplane. I'm told one was like flying a Spitfire and the other was like flying a C5 Galaxy. There was no massive great difference between the size or the weight or the wing-loading or the control size, but one was like a ballerina, and the other was like a heffa-lump. I hear the A4 Skyhawk is another one that's very swift and very agile, which is why they still like to use them at Top Gun. It's a very nimble little aeroplane. I hear some of the pilots who have flown the early F/A 18s and moved on to the later ones, rather prefer the old ones, for that exact reason. A Super-Hornet is not Super-nimble ~ at least not compared to it's older brother.

@TheSilmarillian 7 ай бұрын

The RAAF nicknamed the super hornets as rhinos.

@Kneedragon1962 7 ай бұрын

@@TheSilmarillian~ Yeah. The Yanks refer to them that way too.