SNCAC NC.130

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NC.130
RoleResearch aircraft
National originFrance
Manufacturer Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Centre
First flight1939
Number built1

The SNCAC NC.130 was a French high-altitude research aircraft of the 1930s. A single example flew in 1939, but was destroyed during the Second World War.

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Design and development

The French aircraft manufacturer Farman designed and built the Farman F.1000 series of high altitude aircraft in the early 1930s. When Farman was nationalised to form part of the Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Centre (SNCAC) in 1936, SNCAC continued its interest in high altitude aircraft, proposing a number of high-altitude projects, including the NC.140 four-engined heavy bomber (a pressurised derivative of the Farman F.223.3) and the twin-engined NC.150 bomber. [1]

In order to aid the design of these projects and, in particular, the pressure cabins that they needed, SNCAC designed a pressurised twin-engined research aircraft, the SNCAC NC.130. [2] The NC.130 was a low-winged cantilever monoplane with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage. It was powered by two 720 hp (540 kW) Hispano-Suiza 12Ybr engines. Its crew of three were accommodated in a cylindrical riveted duralumin pressure cabin in the nose of the aircraft, with the pilot provided with thick glass portholes in the upper part of the cabin to allow outward vision. [1]

Operational history

The NC.130 made its maiden flight on 10 October 1939. [3] In May 1940, it was evacuated to the former Hanriot airfield at Bourges to escape the German invasion, [1] interrupting the aircraft's test programme, it having flown 41 hours 18 minutes by this time. [2] The evacuation was not successful, as the NC.130 was destroyed later that year. [1]

Specifications

Data from French Projects—1940 [4]

General characteristics

Performance

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Liron and Passingham Air Pictorial April 1970, p. 133.
  2. 1 2 "SNCAC NC.130". Уголок Неба. Retrieved 28 December 2012..
  3. 1 2 Parmentier, Bruno. "S.N.C.A.C. NC-130". Aviafrance. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  4. ↑ Liron and Passingham Air Pictorial May 1970, p. 172.

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