SNCASO Farfadet explained

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

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]

Bibliography

• Taylor, John W.R. Jane's Pocket Book of Research and Experimental Aircraft, London, Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd, 1976. .
• 24 April 1953 . Aircraft Intelligence. Flight. LXIII . 2309 . 513 .

External links

• Flight, 12 March 1954
• "French Air Oddities" Popular Mechanics, December 1953, p. 115.

Notes and References

1. Taylor 1976, p.229.