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There's no story behind this picture this time, I began to draw the vixen an evening to practice at drawing and then told myself that it wasn't bad and that I should continue it so I drew the aircraft behind.
The aircraft in the background is a SNCASO 4050 Vautour IIN, a French 1950s all-weather heavy fighter which served until the late 1970s. The SNCASO 4050 was built in three main variants, the A, the ground attack variant, single seater with 4 30mm DEFA canons and around 4 tons of rockets and bombs, the B variant, a bomber variant with a glassed nose and with no guns and the N variant, the twin seater all-weather heavy fighter which had 4 30mm canons, a radar DRAC 25A and later DRAC 34A, the possibility to carry 4 tons of equipement including fuel tanks, rockets and radar guided missile MATRA 511. The B variant was then upgraded later, between 1967 and 1971, in two other variants, the BR for reconnaissance missions and the GE for electronic warfare. Another variant was created in 1960 but wasn't named, from the N variant, it was used by the French Air Force in Algeria and in French Polynesia to collect particules from the radioactive clouds created by the atomic tests in those two areas, it will be 10 Vautour IIN which would receive this upgrade whose only one is still in one piece on the Hao atoll, five others were sunk because too radioactive and the 4 lasts were scrapped.
The only fights that the Vautout has known were with the Israeli Air Force during the Six Days War during the one 6 Vautour were lost because of anti-aircraft fire or because of enemy fighters for one victory of this kind of aircraft against an Egyptian Hawker Hunter.
The few exemples of the A variant which remained in the French Air Force were modified with a fake in-flight refueling pole to train the future pilots of Mirage 2000s to in-flight refueling.
At what I've heard about its in-flight capabilities, it was a very manoeuvrable aircraft and a real pleasure to fly, it was taking off and landing nearly on its own and once it has took off, it was climbing really fast nearly at the vertical until 8 000m (a bit more than 24 000ft) but suffered of some problems of icing at high altitude. It was also able to break the sound barrier when in a diving of around 45°.
I don't really know what to add more than that...
The vixen doesn't represents anyone, it's just a random vixen, no more, no less.
Edit: Well, in fact I've changed my mind and decided give her a name, Atar, and to make her one of my character
The aircraft in the background is a SNCASO 4050 Vautour IIN, a French 1950s all-weather heavy fighter which served until the late 1970s. The SNCASO 4050 was built in three main variants, the A, the ground attack variant, single seater with 4 30mm DEFA canons and around 4 tons of rockets and bombs, the B variant, a bomber variant with a glassed nose and with no guns and the N variant, the twin seater all-weather heavy fighter which had 4 30mm canons, a radar DRAC 25A and later DRAC 34A, the possibility to carry 4 tons of equipement including fuel tanks, rockets and radar guided missile MATRA 511. The B variant was then upgraded later, between 1967 and 1971, in two other variants, the BR for reconnaissance missions and the GE for electronic warfare. Another variant was created in 1960 but wasn't named, from the N variant, it was used by the French Air Force in Algeria and in French Polynesia to collect particules from the radioactive clouds created by the atomic tests in those two areas, it will be 10 Vautour IIN which would receive this upgrade whose only one is still in one piece on the Hao atoll, five others were sunk because too radioactive and the 4 lasts were scrapped.
The only fights that the Vautout has known were with the Israeli Air Force during the Six Days War during the one 6 Vautour were lost because of anti-aircraft fire or because of enemy fighters for one victory of this kind of aircraft against an Egyptian Hawker Hunter.
The few exemples of the A variant which remained in the French Air Force were modified with a fake in-flight refueling pole to train the future pilots of Mirage 2000s to in-flight refueling.
At what I've heard about its in-flight capabilities, it was a very manoeuvrable aircraft and a real pleasure to fly, it was taking off and landing nearly on its own and once it has took off, it was climbing really fast nearly at the vertical until 8 000m (a bit more than 24 000ft) but suffered of some problems of icing at high altitude. It was also able to break the sound barrier when in a diving of around 45°.
I don't really know what to add more than that...
Edit: Well, in fact I've changed my mind and decided give her a name, Atar, and to make her one of my character
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 915 x 1280px
File Size 1.93 MB
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Thank you, B, I must say I get a bit inspired by a poster drawn by Romain Hugault I've got on the wall in front ( http://imgur.com/a/w2Sqz ) and I'll try to work on eventually developing the character, though I don't know if I'll give her a background.
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