What if coming off the line

[Dork the kit slayer]

Carrier operators required a sabre equivalent...the up engined Mystere filled the gap?  The type was operated by many nations in numerous sub types. The most  successful being the French built ( by Heller) Mystere 3 also called the Durante by its crews, in reference to the  "eyes down look in" radar system that protuded prominently from the upper intake lip. The production of which was delayed owing to a shortage in the spares box.

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Th1s earlyGrumman built F-10-5-1A  Lodginghouse cat,seen here in the colours of VF(N)-9 (tail code ZA)aboard the carrier USS Frank Zappa during anti Pirate sweeps off Free Irish Polytheania during the Radish pirate scare.

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[Tophe]

Weird...  The Mystère IV and II are well known, it is great to add the III thanks to you, and as an export success moreover .
I love your sunset picture of it/her, most of all  

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

And a Naval Mystere was studied in 1960-1964... Funny to see it in USN markings!  

[Tophe]

According to the great book Docavia #28 (Larivière pub.) - see truncated view below - the Mystere III was a two-seater with a nose radar and lateral air-intakes, nick-named Night Mystery. Ordered then cancelled by the French Air Force in 1952-53, tested in 1952 by US pilots that found it not good enough (maximum speed and altitude too low, bad handling at low speed and taking off)... What-if they had tested yours? They would have ordered! So I prefer your one...  

[John Howling Mouse]

Very clean.  Did you create that surreal sunset background yourself?

Ah, weird question here but what IS that thing clamped into the tailpipe in the first pic and why does it look so familar?

 

[Tophe]

Did you create that surreal sunset background yourself?

Why do you say "Surreal"? Here, outside, every sunset looks like that! (Here, I mean: at the West of our lunatic asylum)  

[Dork the kit slayer]

Very clean.  Did you create that surreal sunset background yourself?

Ah, weird question here but what IS that thing clamped into the tailpipe in the first pic and why does it look so familar?

:ar:   HA HA..you eagle eyed cove you...that thing is of course the mark2 donackyclampthing....which we all know was fitted to many wifs around the world............a sort of MAD boom but ............fades to black...
:zzz:  :zzz:  :zzz:  :zzz:  :zzz: .dont get me started.

THe background is from a really great free wallpaper site........I thought it was leaning towards the vampyre pirate thing .

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Assumes the voice of an outraged JMN...

'How dare you, Sir.... it's a disgrace. To spoil a beautiful aeroplane of divine proportions in that manner. I'm going to write to my MP..... Bahhhhhh !'

Brigadier-General Cedric Titfield-Thunderbolt Retd... DSC and Bahhhhhh

                                                                                 

Woah.... Sorry bout that, must have got my meds mixed-up with yours. Can't say I like the unflattering paint scheme though bud. But the idea is great.

I H-G

[The Rat]

Now that's a natural!    

[Dork the kit slayer]

. Can't say I like the unflattering paint scheme though bud.

Aaaaahh     What if...the last refuge of the colour blind