Entendard IV and Super Entendard

[Archibald]

a supersonic Etendard IV built from a Mirage IIIC - both from Jean Cuny 's "les avions de combats français 1945-60"





Early Mirages - 01, I, II, III-01 - early Etendards - II, IV, VI - and late Mystères were all very similar.
All flew between 1954 and 1957; all were transonics.

Etendard and Mirage bodies were basically a "Mystere IV + lateral intakes"  thing.

Only the wing plan differed : delta for the Mirage, swept (similar to Mystère in fact!) for the Etendards.

After that, you have different engines
- 1*Orpheus for NATO
- 2*small Turboméca Gabizo for the AdA (the Gabizo soon proved utter crap)
- 1*Atar-101 (reheat or no reheat)

The Mirage finally received "souris" (mices) in the intakes, the Etandard did not, and went to the French Navy as an attack machine.

Had the Etendard received a reheat and "mices", it could have go supersonic.

Even the old SMB-2 reached Mach 1.4 with a Mirage III Atar-9C (the SMB-4) 

Supersonic Etendard is feasible, either in 1958 from the Etendard IV (no Crusader) or from the SEM in 1974 (replace the Crouzes)

By the way, a supersonic Etendard IV would really be a low-wing (medium-wing?) Mirage F1. The Mirage F1 would in fact never have existed!

[GTX]

My rough interpretations of a 2 seat Super Etendard and VG Super Etendard:





Regards,

Greg

[SPINNERS]

That looks good Greg!

[GTX]

Continuing with today's Jet-lift STOL theme:



Regards,

Greg

[Archibald]

A french forger!

[ysi_maniac]

The doudou's Profiles thread is pertinent in this thread http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,16906.135.html
I got this Etendard Supersonique from it.

[Jeffry Fontaine]

That is pretty much the same thing I had in mind after looking at the Entendard and Super Entendard and comparing them with the Mirage airframe and thinking that it would be an easy kit bash to match up the forward fuselage of the Mirage with the Entendard and Super Entendard to come up with something that could be a bit faster. 

[Archibald]

ok, I'm a nitpicker, feel free to burn me alive but... it's Etendard, not Entendard. 

Doudou's artwork is great, as usual!

Th french navy briefly give consideration to an interceptor Super Etendard in the 80's, to replace the old Crusader. But they soon dropped the idea as unpracticable...
Well, the Sea Harrier was subsonic, but it was some interceptor. A SEM with Mirage 2000 nose and Super 530 would be good...