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Here is Sud-Ouest's proposal for a potential Mirage IVM competitor, the SO4060M. It is not certain whether a final selection had been made by the time the PA58 carrier was cancelled.
The configuration features a conventional swept wing, but there is a very peculiar "wheel" at the rear of the fuselage.
I would suspect that the SO4060M would have been catapulted from the same "nose high" position (with the nose gear lifted completely off the deck ) as the contemporary Blackburn Buccaneer. In the case of the Buccaneer, there was a skid towards the rear of fuselage, not an extra wheel.
Source: Port Avions Francais, by F. Dousset. Paris, 1978.
The configuration features a conventional swept wing, but there is a very peculiar "wheel" at the rear of the fuselage.
I would suspect that the SO4060M would have been catapulted from the same "nose high" position (with the nose gear lifted completely off the deck ) as the contemporary Blackburn Buccaneer. In the case of the Buccaneer, there was a skid towards the rear of fuselage, not an extra wheel.
Source: Port Avions Francais, by F. Dousset. Paris, 1978.