A beautiful Dassault Mirage F1 CR is about to return to its home base.
The Dassault Mirage F1 is a fighter aircraft made by the French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation. The aircraft was the successor to the successful Mirage III. Unlike all of its relatives, the Mirage F1 did not have delta wings.
The Mirage F1 was the backbone of the French Air Force until the Mirage 2000 entered service in 1984.
I took this photo on the departure day of the 2013 RIAT on July 22.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…