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This is the adaptation of a story written by Charlier in 1970. Tanguy and Laverdure are hosting four foreign pilots who’ve travelled to Istres to try out the Mirage F1 in order to recommend it to the air forces of their respective countries. Right from the first flight, the F1 shows itself to be unreliable when the German pilot loses control of the plane. Only Tanguy’s expert guidance saves him. A few days later, it’s Stinton’s turn to pilot the F1. He also finds himself a hair’s breadth from disaster when one of the landing wheels malfunctions at the critical moment. For Tanguy, so many incidents can’t simply be down to bad luck. He also knows that these incidents are unlikely to be due to a design fault in the plane. So he decides, helped by the head mechanic and an engineer, to start looking into the real reasons behind these multiple glitches…
