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Nord Griffon 1500 Sud Aviation
During the 50's France was called land of the prototypes because many prototypes and some very advanced aircraft reached a status of flying but never reached production status - main reason was budget and not enough demand for the type.
The Nord Griffon fall to the same category.
It was designed with Atar engine without afterburner but a ram -jet was located around the engine with pipes that injected fuel that gave the plane tremendous go !
It broke mach 2.19 in 1959 and was limited by the aluminom construction of the fuselage to get higher speeds.
The plane was designed to climb fast toward incoming russian bombers and to fire a missile to kill the incoming bomber that could carry an atomic bomb.
Because of the infra structure needed and the cost it was decided that the Mirage III will be a better option - something that proved right !
So work on the type was abandoned.
The model is from Ecardmodels in the scale of 1:48 and with many modifications as cocpit landing gears and other add ones.
Yair
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