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  • Nuclear bomber begins trip to Yorkshire

    04/01/2017 5:00:49 AM PDT · by sukhoi-30mki · 10 replies
    BBC News ^ | 27 March 2017
    A French Cold War nuclear bomber has begun a four-day journey to its new home at an English air museum. The 31-tonne Dassault Mirage IVA has been donated to the Yorkshire Air Museum, at Elvington near York, by the French government. It is the only Mirage IV aircraft to be given to an independent museum and the only one outside France. The 77ft-long (23m) plane is travelling 527 miles (848km) by road and sea and is due to arrive on 30 March. The Mirage IV was built as part of France's independent nuclear deterrent during the Cold War. Around 60...