ONERA Aircraft & Projects

Also from Ailes 21/7/1951,

here is a two generic designs for ONERA.
 

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Hi,

To answer a question on a French forum, I found in my files this photo of a stealth plane concept presented in 1996 during an exhibition on 50 years of ONERA. But nothing was said about the year of its building.
 

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I have a picture of a trainer model, most likely in ONERA. The article is from Icare 1976 but is is an ad for a different French magazine called Aviation Magazine. It was the time supercritical wings were explored. It is not an alpha jet but I can't put my finger on it. Perhaps it is a Breguet/Dassault model?

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The aircraft whose model is in the wind tunnel is a Canadair-made Lockheed T-33 Silver Star.

The following may be of interest.

This T-33 (serial 21064) was destroyed in May 1990, with 40+ other aircraft, when a fire swept through a storage hangar.
 
Excellent... for some reason I did not register this a T-33... thx
 
From, Planete Aero 2023-10/11.

Related to that Gullhyver project was ALBATROSS (Aile Laminaire hauBAnée à Traînée Réduite par OptimiSation multidiSciplinaire) - another truss-wing design but with rear-fuselage mounted turbofans. A more detailed study of potential arrangements for large turbofans was NOVA (NextGen ONERA Versatile Aircraft).
 

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