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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.

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......

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

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!

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

You find something new every day!

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

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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!

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).

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