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]

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)

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era

• Fairey FB-1 Gyrodyne
• Percival P.74

Related lists

• List of rotorcraft
• List of VTOL aircraft

• 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.

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