MIRAGE

I’ve seen the French delta bird up close and what a plane!

Just think of the names it brought forth – Cheetah, Pantera, Kfir, Nesher…

All are delta darts whose claws are thirty millimetre guns

and whose teeth are heat-seeking missiles.

Blooded in combat over the Sinai and the Malvinas in the name of war.

Pilots became both victors and vanquished flying...

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