For the new year...a French beast...really.....

[Michel Lemieux]

https://oldmachinepress.com/2021/08/05/sncac-nc-3021-belphegor-high-altitude-research-aircraft/

What a monster...found this on a FB thread.

It had an interesting war period design and first flew after WW2.



Look at that beast size.

[Michel Lemieux]

For the technocrats who are in need of of life like me.....

That reference site has a LOT of good stuff: https://oldmachinepress.com/

Here we go again....just lost another day.....

Hehe......

[lmritger]

This is absolutely fascinating - and it is the only other aircraft I've ever seen which used the DB 610, aside from the He 177.

Thank you for sharing this!

Lynn

[Michel Lemieux]

I still am really impressed by the amount of prototypes done during the WW2 era!

And that was before PC CAD design......AKA a slide ruler, a drawing table and some good old fashion tin bashing!

which used the DB 610

Desperation can lead to strange choices Even the prop was from an HE-177.

You find something new every day!

[p51]

is it just me or does this remind anyone else of the final version of the "Flight of Phoenix" airplane?

[Hooligan2]

is it just me or does this remind anyone else of the final version of the "Flight of Phoenix" airplane?

Yeah, a bit!

Astonishing just how many historic one-offs or even quite substantial production types pop out of the woodwork just when you think you know it all!

[Archer]

I'm pretty sure there was an article on this type in a magazine sometime last year... but cannot for the life of me remember which one. Anyway, there was another interesting type from the same stable: the SNCASE SE.1010. The Aviation Historian did a good article on that in the October 2018 issue (no.25).