Specific designation?Another Nord design, I've made a drawing from. It should have been able
to reach around Mach 4 :
For the moment only known as Nord "Minerve"Specific designation?Another Nord design, I've made a drawing from. It should have been able
to reach around Mach 4 :
What a beast...!From Aviation magazine 1990.
The plane on the cover of Fana of April 2024 corresponds to the "Mach 3 two-seater" fighter (3 views drawing) in the middle of page 233 of the book French Secret Projects 1 by Mr. Carbonel.
Looking forward to the next April 2024 issue of Le Fana de l'Aviation.
Mach 5: poisson d'avril?The plane on the cover of Fana of April 2024 corresponds to the "Mach 3 two-seater" fighter (3 views drawing) in the middle of page 233 of the book French Secret Projects 1 by Mr. Carbonel.
No, but the cover shows a towards Mach 5 (Mach 3) transition plane and not a Mach 5 capable plane.Mach 5: poisson d'avril?
No, as said with Monsieur Carbonel by Personal Messages at the time of the release of FSP 1, there are caption mistakes in the book.In the middle of page 233 of the book French Secret Projects 1 by Mr. Carbonel,
"By 1968 the Nord Aviation studies for a Mach 4 aircraft, often called the "Super Griffon" by the press, had evolved into this large delta machine."
The cover page is rather confusing but very nice; and in the article the speediest plane project mentioned is an hypothetical mach 4,2 Dassault (super) Mirage.No, but the cover shows a Mach 5 transition plane and not a Mach 5 capable plane.
It's also funny that the article is published on April; as the Mach 4 Mirage article published on April 2008.The cover page is rather confusing but very nice; and in the article the speediest plane project mentioned is an hypothetical mach 4,2 Dassault (super) Mirage.
Mach5 transition plane= Mach 3 plane?
But, as always for "le fana", very good text to read and think about.
At the end of the article Espadon is foreseen for Mach 5.The cover page is rather confusing but very nice; and in the article the speediest plane project mentioned is an hypothetical mach 4,2 Dassault (super) Mirage.
Mach5 transition plane= Mach 3 plane?
But, as always for "le fana", very good text to read and think about.
Any way, congratulations !At the end of the article Espadon is foreseen for Mach 5.
I wanted to say that the Nord Mach 3 project on the cover was a step towards the Espadon project, capable of Mach 5. But the article also mentions the Prepha program of the 90s on research to approach Mach 6. The same paragraph mentions the project AVG (Avion à Grande Vitesse/High Speed Aircraft), but without saying if Mach 6 was considered for it.
Those paper planes are very impressive; I am more overwhelmed by 50s-60s French achievements in the ramjet practical use as Stataltex or CT41.At the end of the article Espadon is foreseen for Mach 5.
I wanted to say that the Nord Mach 3 project on the cover was a step towards the Espadon project, capable of Mach 5. But the article also mentions the Prepha program of the 90s on research to approach Mach 6. The same paragraph mentions the project AVG (Avion à Grande Vitesse/High Speed Aircraft), but without saying if Mach 6 was considered for it.
Or the work on VERAS project.Those paper planes are very impressive; I am more overwhelmed by 50s-60s French achievements in the ramjet practical use as Stataltex or CT41.
From "Gerfaut et Griffon, Conquêtes du statoréacteur et de l'aile delta en France, Serge Kaplan et Philipe Ricco, AVIA Editions"
From "Gerfaut et Griffon, Conquêtes du statoréacteur et de l'aile delta en France, Serge Kaplan et Philipe Ricco, AVIA Editions"