A curious SuperHarrier

[Spino]

Nice work!  That's an interesting build for sure.  Will there be any weapons or is it just going to be a prototype?

[steelpillow]

Just a prototype. The production version would be a little larger with various developed features and a more powerful engine. Kind of like the transition from the Kestrel to the Harrier. More importantly, after fifty years of messing with the engineering design, I have no desire to hack a weapons fit now.

[NARSES2]

Interesting looking beast 

[steelpillow]

Last sight of fuselage side before u/c gets in the way. Note pretty blow-in door.
Jig to set main legs correctly. Well, almost - now done, standing on its own legs and only fractionally wonky, don't tell the judges!
Just touch-up and underside doors to go.

[Dizzyfugu]

Cool. 

[steelpillow]

Done! Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the Nord Aviation 1550 Busard of 1968.

In VTOL configuration: nozzles down, blow-in doors open, shock cone withdrawn, air dams deployed, puffer jet doors drawn back. Oh, yes, and u/c down too.

50 years of my life not wasted after all.

[PR19_Kit]

That is, to use a word I like a lot, SUPERB!

[Spino]

Very French looking indeed!  A VTOL design that actually might be useful for something (the only French one I can think of that ever flew wasn't...).  Excellent work 

[Old Wombat]

That looks great! Even better than I expected!   

[zenrat]

So odd looking she's beautiful.

 

[Dizzyfugu]

Very cool! 

[NARSES2]

That really does look good   

[RAFF-35]

C'est magnifique!!

[CammNut]

So.....French! Very well done

[Rick Lowe]