WHIFS found while Google-ing

[Spey_Phantom]

here's another interesting find, an AWACS version of the Sukhoi SSJ100.
i might have to build this one as a model 

[rickshaw]

SNCASO SO4070 Minerve and how to build it (in French).   

[chrisonord]

I like the look of that. Looks like most of a convair hustler would go into building that
Chris

[PR19_Kit]

SNCASO SO4070 Minerve and how to build it (in French).   

Cor, tres magnifique! 

It could ONLY be French, couldn't it? I wonder why it has two different sizes of engines though.

[Dizzyfugu]

Lovely scratchbuild! Respect! 

[NARSES2]

Cor, tres magnifique! 

It could ONLY be French, couldn't it? I wonder why it has two different sizes of engines though.

My thoughts exactly Kit and it also could only be of the period. As for the engines my first thoughts were the ones on the wings were ramjets ? Also so of the period.

[DogfighterZen]

That is very good work indeed... that thing would have some kind of periscope for the pilot, right?
Had the same thoughts about the engines, but that the bigger engine could be the ramjet, don't know if that makes sense, though...

[NARSES2]

That is very good work indeed... that thing would have some kind of periscope for the pilot, right?
Had the same thoughts about the engines, but that the bigger engine could be the ramjet, don't know if that makes sense, though...

Yes to both. A pilot's periscope is again of the period, especially as it hasn't got a "droop snoot". Had the same thought about the large engine myself, but then thought the other 2 didn't look big enough to be the main source of thrust ?

[loupgarou]

Smaller engines are jettisonable ramjets, the big one a regular jet for cruise (from the build history). 

[DogfighterZen]

That is very good work indeed... that thing would have some kind of periscope for the pilot, right?
Had the same thoughts about the engines, but that the bigger engine could be the ramjet, don't know if that makes sense, though...

Yes to both. A pilot's periscope is again of the period, especially as it hasn't got a "droop snoot". Had the same thought about the large engine myself, but then thought the other 2 didn't look big enough to be the main source of thrust ?

Smaller engines are jettisonable ramjets, the big one a regular jet for cruise (from the build history). 

Clarified that, thanks.
I was thinking the wing engines would be the normal jets to get it up to supersonic speeds and then the big ramjet would take over.

[PR19_Kit]

Was it a real project or did the guy imagineer it himself?

If the former, I'm not surprised in the slightest and if the latter, RESPECT, as Dizzy said. 

[loupgarou]

Was it a real project or did the guy imagineer it himself?

If the former, I'm not surprised in the slightest and if the latter, RESPECT, as Dizzy said. 

Le SNCASO SO4070, monoplace delta triréacteur de classe Mach3, conçu dans le cadre du programme Minerve (qui aboutira au Mirage IV), partait sur une approche radicalement différente à celle de Dassaut. Réduit au minimum, il s'appuyait sur un guidage depuis le sol et une configuration monoplace, ou le pilote était réduit au role de convoyeur pour le vol retour.

Beaucoup plus petit que son concurrent GAMD, il s'agissait d'une config delta à voilure tres mince, un train monotrace avec deux balancines rétractables, un réacteur ATAR et deux Stato-réacteur montés dans des pods éjectables sous voilure.

[scooter]

For those of us who don't speak French (translation errors by Google Translate):

The SNCASO SO4070, a single-seat delta trijet class Mach3, designed as part of the Minerve program (which will lead to the Mirage IV), was based on a radically different approach to that of Dassaut. Reduced to a minimum, it relied on guidance from the ground and a single-seat configuration, where the pilot was reduced to the role of conveyor for the return flight.

Much smaller than its competitor GAMD, it was a very thin delta wing configuration, a single-track train with two retractable balancines, an ATAR reactor and two Stato-Reactors mounted in pods ejected under wing.

[PR19_Kit]

For those of us who don't speak French (translation errors by Google Translate):

The SNCASO SO4070, a single-seat delta trijet class Mach3, designed as part of the Minerve program (which will lead to the Mirage IV), was based on a radically different approach to that of Dassaut. Reduced to a minimum, it relied on guidance from the ground and a single-seat configuration, where the pilot was reduced to the role of conveyor for the return flight.

Much smaller than its competitor GAMD, it was a very thin delta wing configuration, a single-track train with two retractable balancines, an ATAR reactor and two Stato-Reactors mounted in pods ejected under wing.

Merci beaucoup. 

[NARSES2]

Smaller engines are jettisonable ramjets, the big one a regular jet for cruise (from the build history). 

Thank you sir 

It's something I think of as so typically French from that period.