It Must Be a Mirage…
No, you’re not seeing things. That really is a supersonic fighter aircraft parked in a university car park near Paris, France.
Believe it or not, this isn’t entirely unheard of, as we’ve previously seen a MiG-21 in a shopping centre car park. However it isn’t clear in this latest case why on earth the aircraft is parked here. All we know for the moment is that, unsurprisingly, it’s a French model - the Dassault Mirage III - which actually dates all the way back to the 50s.
Thanks to rob, jake and ensel.
check out the taxiway leading to it. That bad boy is ON CALL baby! Ready to use the D407 as an emergency runway!
The building it is parked in front of is the former “École Technique Aéronautique”, i.e. a university institute for aeronautical technologies. After being used as a secondary school with technical focus for a couple of years, the building is now part of the university Paris X again.
The Mirage 2000 (a full scale model BTW) commemorates the close relations of the university with the aeronautical industry.
A little north/west of the plane, there’s a nice size home…. anyone know anything about this place??
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I think he’s Silverbolt, a Generation 1 Transformers.
http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery.php?id=1286&size=0&start=0
LOL
Here a mig-21 in a used cars sales lot in the netherlands
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two airplanes near a technical high school in Pisa,Italy
Here’s an hidden one in Percy hospital.
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A other plane parked in one school. it’s in Creteil. I think it’s a Fouga.
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Sorry for the bad link. The plane in Creteilis here
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Coventry University has a Harrier Jumpjet.
Though, I don’t think it’s outside and the adverts for it are very ambiguous as to where it is and what type of Harrier.
This is a Mirage III. I graduated this school in 1999. This plane was decommissioned in the seventies. One of our teacher had his entries at the air force, manage to get this aircraft.
On site can be seen also an olympus engine from the Concorde (this prototype was used to test the engine by throwing chicken to the inlet).
Can also be seen 3 subsonic wind tunnel and one supersonic wind tunnel.
There used to be a large red military helicopter parked in the parking lot of a wholesale liquor outlet in Christchurch, New Zealand. Although the helicopter has been moved to an airforce museum, it’s image is still present in google earth. Unforetunately Christchurch isn’t in really high resolution, although it’s much better than it was! You can make out the helicopter right in the middle of the screen
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