Manual Mirage

Imagine you're in the desert.

You've been walking for hours. You've run out of water. On the horizon, you see a giant, shimmering puddle of water. Mirages are optical illusions that have fooled many thirsty explorers. Take a look at this video:. Normally, light waves from the sun travel straight through the atmosphere to your eye. But, light travels at different speeds through hot air and cold air.

Mirages happen when the ground is very hot and the air is cool.

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The hot ground warms a layer of air just above the ground. When the light moves through the cold air and into the layer of hot air it is refracted bent. Do you feel lucky? Our Word of the Year justice , plus 10 more.

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Can you spell these 10 commonly misspelled words? Choose the Right Synonym for mirage delusion , illusion , hallucination , mirage mean something that is believed to be true or real but that is actually false or unreal.

Mirage and Vision A mirage is a sort of optical illusion, a reflection of light that can trick the mind into interpreting the sight as an apparently solid thing. Examples of mirage in a Sentence A peaceful solution proved to be a mirage. Recent Examples on the Web So the ostensibly high number of undecideds in the Times House polling might be a bit of a mirage.

Was that whole North Korea summit thing a mirage? Give us your tired and poor, Americans say, just not those ones," 24 May Now, as the afterglow of the Trump-Kim tete-a-tete wears off the prospect of any kind of easy North Korean solution is looking — unsurprisingly — like a mirage. First Known Use of mirage , in the meaning defined at sense 1. Learn More about mirage. Resources for mirage Time Traveler! Since the weather over the Middle East is clear and sunny most of the time, the Israelis suggested removing avionics, normally located behind the cockpit, from the standard Mirage IIIE to reduce cost and maintenance, and replacing them with more fuel storage for attack missions.

The first Mirage 5 flew on 19 May A pitot tube was distinctively moved from the tip of the nose to below the nose in the majority of Mirage 5 variants. Provision for the SEPR rocket engine was deleted. The Mirages continued to roll off the production line, even though they were embargoed, and by the batch was complete and the Israelis had provided final payments. In late , the Israelis, who had pilots in France testing the aircraft, requested that the aircraft be transferred to Corsica , in theory to allow them to continue flight training during the winter.

The French government became suspicious when the Israelis also tried to obtain long-range fuel tanks and cancelled the move. The Israelis finally gave up trying to acquire the aircraft and accepted a refund. Some sources claim that cooperation with France resumed outside the public's eye and Israel received 50 Mirage 5 s in crates from the French Air Force , while the French took over the 50 aircraft originally intended for Israel, as Mirage 5F s. Like the Mirage IIIE, the Mirage 5 was popular with export customers, with different export variants fitted with a wide range of different avionics.

While the Mirage 5 had been originally oriented to the clear-weather attack role, with some avionic fits it was refocused to the air-combat mission. As electronic systems became more compact and powerful, it was possible to provide the Mirage 5 with increased capability, even though the rear avionics bay had been deleted, therefore in some sub-versions, the result was a "reinvented" Mirage IIIE. Reconnaissance and two-seat versions of the Mirage 5 were sold, with the designation Mirage 5R , and Mirage 5D respectively. In and , Israel sold a total of 35 of their Neshers plus four Nesher trainer aircraft Nesher Ts to Argentina , where they were locally known first as Daggers and after their last upgrade as Fingers.

South Africa purchased five Nesher trainers for trials during its own Atlas Cheetah fighter programme.

All the aircraft were eventually upgraded to Cheetah D standard. Chile incorporated some Mirage 5s under name Mirage Elkan. Initial plans included a new more powerful engine, but this idea was abandoned to limit cost. The upgrade eventually included a new state-of-the-art cockpit, a new ejection seat, and canards to improve takeoff performance and overall maneuverability. After completion, the Belgian government sold all 20 aircraft to Chile at a loss.