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Unmanned Mirages and others
« on: November 03, 2017, 02:11:43 AM »
For this GB, I will not draw (like usual) special P-38 and P-51, as these UAV have been done years ago in my collection. But I may do the same with Mirages:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2017, 11:49:08 PM »
Of course, there were twin-jet Zwilling derivatives, both symmetric and asymmetric:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2017, 11:57:03 PM »
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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2017, 04:54:06 PM »
Thanks!

And, of course, there were asymmetric Spirages that were not Zwilling, like this one:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2017, 05:14:56 PM »
I like asymmetric planes, but you know: I prefer twin-boomers, and one SPirage was belonging to this family. Ordered in 300,000 copies, but alas cancelled:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2017, 11:19:03 PM »
650 copies of Spirage-35 were sold to Sweden:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2017, 05:32:11 PM »
For Christmas, I consider asking for a Novo Mirage IIIE/O, in order to build a high wing delta Mirage-5H (intermediate between Mirage-5 and Mirage F-1), but in this family was an unmanned version of course: SPirage-5H:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2017, 05:47:47 PM »
For Christmas, I consider asking for a Novo Mirage IIIE/O, in order to build a
As I lack room on my shelves, I consider a very little derivative Mirage-5S (Short), impossible to fly (no room for the turbojet) but funny. And there may be an unmanned derivative here: SPirage-5S:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2017, 06:23:09 PM »
The generals here, ignoring how an aircraft fly, were not worried by the lack of turbojet (or any engine) on the SPirage-5S but by its asymmetry. They required to cure that immediately, into the SPirage-6, of which 1,000 copies were ordered. Cancelled fortunately before loosing all this money for nothing.

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2017, 02:36:08 AM »
All those Spirages; just spewing them out. Fantastic  8)

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2017, 01:11:44 AM »
Thanks a lot for your word "fantastic"! ;)
But "spewing" was an unknown word for me (English is not my mother language). Google translate tells me this is meaning "vomiting". Sorry if my drawings are so bad they make you vomit... :( ??? ;)

EDIT: Before the Spirage-35 contract with Sweden a Spirage-5DD was proposed but the customers answered: "this is not what we call double-delta, sorry"...
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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2017, 01:47:17 AM »
This one is my favorite,great job.
Alex

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2017, 02:38:19 AM »
Thanks!

The Belgian Mirage 5 were not coded B but BA/BD/BR, why? Because the B code was belonging to the Biplane Mirage-5. And so was the SPirage-5B:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2017, 05:23:25 PM »
Well just spitting them out like that! You are just fast on those drawings.  :smiley:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #14 on: November 08, 2017, 11:07:27 AM »
I understand now, thanks!
It is the principle of vectorial drawing: very easily made, once the basis is constructed, just objects/points to move by drag and drop. The ratio fun/work is a thousand times higher than 3D model making, even if the result (the way I do) is not so great.

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #15 on: November 11, 2017, 08:22:41 PM »
In Mirage 5F, F was meaning French, but in Spirage 5F, F means Fusée (Rocket):

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #16 on: November 11, 2017, 10:28:30 PM »
On the opposite, the SPirage 5TS Turbo-Stato-réacteur (turbo-ramjet) had a huge air intake feeding two engines:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #17 on: November 12, 2017, 05:04:52 PM »
The first SPirage was an aircraft of the 1970s. Now, drones are much more common but most of them are multicopters. Maybe this is why the SPirage-5 New Generation was a TriCopter:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #18 on: November 13, 2017, 06:28:09 PM »
I really like the Tri-Copter, Tophe! I can almost see it flying over my fair city...

Great stuff!

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #19 on: November 19, 2017, 05:03:13 PM »
Thanks!

It is rather famous that the MiG-21 was a copy of the SPirage-21, but do you know that the Lockheed D-21 was a copy of the Dassault SPirage-21D?

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #20 on: November 19, 2017, 05:27:53 PM »
As I am going to be murdered by the CIA, I may tell you the whole “Truth”: the Lockheed SR-71 itself was a top-secret copy (without royalties payment) of the MiRage MR-71, and this involved the SPirage 21Z drone… No? Just a dream?

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #21 on: November 19, 2017, 07:59:19 PM »
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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #22 on: November 19, 2017, 11:41:33 PM »
Thanks, I hope that some of you will survive... ;)
(They said "war is war", cold or hot just the same) :(

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #23 on: November 20, 2017, 03:25:55 AM »
Those are some fantastic and wonderfully imaginative concepts, mon ami!

I especially like the 21Z!

Don't hesitate to let me know if you need someone to vouch for you with the authorities.

Not that my word would have much influence... :icon_crap:

Great stuff once again, Tophe!

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #24 on: November 22, 2017, 12:41:04 AM »
Thanks!
And there was a triplex-21D, or double-21Z, aka 71Z: