SNCASO Farfadet

The SNCASO SO.1310 Farfadet was an experimental French convertiplane of the 1950s.

SO.1310 Farfadet
SNCASO SO.1310 Farfadet at 1953 Paris Air Show
Role Experimental convertiplane
National origin France
Manufacturer SNCASO
First flight 8 May 1953

Design and development

The SO.1310 was a compound gyroplane featuring a tip-jet driven, three-bladed rotor, a fixed wing and a turboprop engine driving a nose-mounted propeller. First flown on 8 May 1953 the aircraft achieved transition to forward flight on 1 July of that year.[1]

Specifications (SO.1310)

Data from Taylor

General characteristics

  • Crew: 2
  • Capacity: 3 passengers, 2 stretchers or freight
  • Wingspan: 6.3 m (20 ft 8 in)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Turbomeca Arrius II gas-generator, providing compressed air to the rotor tips[2] , 270 kW (360 hp)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Turbomeca Artouste turboprop, driving propeller , 270 kW (360 hp)
  • Main rotor diameter: 11.2 m (36 ft 9 in)

Performance

  • Cruise speed: 240 km/h (150 mph, 130 kn)
  • Range: 400 km (250 mi, 220 nmi)

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era

Related lists

Notes
  1. Taylor 1976, p.229.
  2. Flight 1953

Bibliography
  • Taylor, John W.R. Jane's Pocket Book of Research and Experimental Aircraft, London, Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd, 1976. ISBN 0-356-08409-4.
  • "Aircraft Intelligence". Flight. Vol. LXIII, no. 2309. 24 April 1953. p. 513.
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