Dassault Mirage IIIO – kit from LEGO® bricks

In 1956, the French aircraft manufacturer Dassault achieved a major breakthrough: the Mirage was allowed to take its first flight. Its further development was rapid in the truest sense of the word, because just a few years later it was the first European aircraft to reach a speed of more than Mach 2.

The fighter aircraft was built in various variants and also successfully exported. The variant presented here is a Mirage IIIO, manufactured under license by the Australian Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation in an edition of 114 aircraft.

The successful French model was powered by a SNECMA Atar 09C turbojet engine with afterburner, which was under development at the same time as the Mirage IIIA test aircraft.

• Number of original LEGO® bricks: 544
• Dimensions of the model: 34.1 x 18 x 10.8 cm

This kit contains the LEGO® bricks for a model of the Dassault Mirage IIIO. The building instructions are not included in the kit. You can find these in Peter Blackert's book "How to Build Brick Airplanes".