Whiffery at 1/1 scale

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I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, so I'll not be surprised if mods migrate it elsewhere.

Were Sud Aviation whiffing at 12 inch to the foot scale?

Others may already know this but reading a book on the Brabazon Committee, I was slightly startled to discover that Sud were having so much trouble with the Caravelle nose design that they eventually bought a couple of Comet noses from De Havilland and used them on the two prototypes. Apparently  the Caravelle was to have three Atar jet engines, and the first prototype shows signs of hasty work on the fin after  Sud decided that two Avons were a better choice.

Is this evidence that Sud were  building without reading the instruction sheet, stealing parts from other models or just plain making it up as they went along(as many of us do)?

[PR19_Kit]

Almost.........

After designing their own nose and cockpit for the Caravelle Sud Aviation discovered that there wasn't enough putty in the whole of France for the required PSR work to smooth it off well enough. So they followed established Whiffing techniques and delved into the spares box, in this case located in Hatfield, and used the best bits that were handy.

DH themselves weren't averse to Whiffing before they built the Comet in the first place as one of the Comet noses got lost during the production phase and ended up on the Airspeed Horsa production line........

It's true, Google it, but the available pics are terrible.