Sud-Ouest Triton

[John R]

France's first jet first flew with an air intake in the nose feeding a Junkers Jumo engine but the performance was unsatisfactory and subsequent versions used a Nene with 'elephant ear' intakes ahead of the wing.

I would like to make a model of it in its original form by modifying the Mach 2 kit but have only been able to find one picture of it in that form and it does not give a good view of the intake which has been described as a 'shark mouth'.

Could anybody please direct me to any pictures or drawings that show the intake? I could ,of course, just cobble something up and nobody could tell mme it was wrong!

John

[John R]

I put this query on the Secret Projects forum and someone came up with this which answers my original question

 

Unfortunately I have uncovered another problem. The only picture I had previously found is the one below which was very dark. On lightening it with Photoshop I saw many rectangular marks which I can only assume are louvres acting as a supplememtary air intake. Was it built like that or were they added later?
I am also confused as I believed from what I had read that only the first prototype had a nose intake but now it appears that there were several different configurations.

[meindert]

FYI

 

for further detailing the model in general, check out my photos of the Le Bourget plane at the IPMS NL website:

 

https://ipms.nl/walkarounds/walkaround-jets/2557-walkaround-triton

[John R]

Thank you. I have recently seen and photgraphed it myself but it was the original version in which I was most interested.

John