MATRA R.130

Hi! MATRA R.130.
MATRA R.130 uses a folding wing with a flap (wing span 12m) in the speed area from taking off and landing to Mach 0.65.
Store a folding wing when speed is over Mach 0.65, and make a body revolve 90 °, and 2 of fixed wing which is at the top and the bottom of the fuselage (wing span 4.5m) is used.
A cockpit becomes independent of a revolution of a body, and the direction is fixed. A pilot boards it by the lying down posture.
Source : Japanese internet site
(R.74 and R.120 pictures moved to the early-projects-section
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1149.msg260901.html#msg260901 )

Another source:
http://aerophile.over-blog.com/article-matra-r-130-63335046.html

The original source was

LE FANA DE L'AVIATION N°402/ Mai 2003‎

‎Revue mensuel illustré. Iliouchine 28, l'inattendu. Matra: des avions avant les missiles. Corky Meyer: brutale rencontre avec un P-40. Un Dakota pour un safari. Le retour du Boomerang. Éditions Larivière

A 1/72 scratchbuild :



All the building there : http://maquette72.free.fr/amis/Gaetan/2011_03_MatraR130/index03.php

Power is R & R Nene and ramjet.Nene engine is located just behind the cockpit. Exhaust gas pipe is very very long. ;D
These two could also operate at the same time also separately also.
Also the control surfaces at high speeds thruster vanes attached to the nozzle.
This drawing which fightingirish-san posted shows R.R. Nene air intake door open position.
Aerodynamic test model gave good results in a wind tunnel test of the Chalet de Mouton.
But to become quite complex in structure, by the budget cuts of the 1951 plan was canceled.
Matra then continued to study and it's said that the research result was sold to the United States at late 1960's.
New aircraft incorporated a unique idea, it was according to the specs.
"Flying time 20 minutes, supersonic flight time 6 minutes.

http://www.nyethermodynamics.com/engines/rolls_royce/index.html

Sorry for off topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nTQxtR8kog

So this drawing is little questionable.
Perhaps at low speed, Nene engine air intake doors are open.
I think that this is what fightingirish-san want to say.
I realize that landing gear is bicycle type + additional small gears located at the wing.

colossusfr said:

A 1/72 scratchbuild :

All the building there : http://maquette72.free.fr/amis/Gaetan/2011_03_MatraR130/index03.php

Click to expand...

I want to see open engine air intake doors.
Also I'd like to see the ditch which accommodates main wing.

There appear to be some re-purposed German aircraft being used as mother ships. One looks like it has the front end of an He-177 and the other resembles an FW-200.

Anyone know more about these aircraft?

Thanks for the sharing of the vidéo Blackkite



For Richard N :

The first one is the He 274, derivative of the He-177.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_274


The second one is the french SNCASE SE-161 Languedoc (new name of the Marcel Bloch MB-161 Languedoc)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_274

Good for speculative cutaway drawing...!

Indeed, in a pretty unexpected and bizarre move, Heinkel in 1941-43 was told to defer He-274 development to Suresnes aviation plant, near Paris (can't remember which French aircraft manufacturer had been there before)
Perhaps it was because they were busy enough with all those He-177, He-177B and He-277 bombers iterations. Whatever, as WWII dragged on and finally ended, this created the bizarre situation of Vichy France, then la Résistance, and finally, De Gaulle RPF, being handled a couple of a very advanced strategic bombers. They were completed after WWII but France was too poor, too ruined, to build more of them and replace the Guyenne 346 and 347 squadron H.P Halifaxes (a shame, but c'est la vie). Only a pair of bombers were build one of them being stripped of spares to keep the other flying until 1952 at least, as a "mothership" for unpowered mockups. The "serious" job (Leduc) was done by Languedoc, although it was a far less powerful, and smaller aircraft. No Leduc was ever dropped from a He-274 or AAS-01, as they were rebranded.

and the Matra R.130 is such an insane design. The aforementioned Fana de l'aviation just blew my mind. That rotating fuselage always remind me of this - an UHU stick of glue. ;D I think i once tried to build a R.130 model out of that thing.

Wow excellnet 3D images!!!
I can see this very complicated project concept through beautiful art work.

Nice CGI /Gif.
View: https://x.com/AviationMarlene/status/1791860901617807771?t=yzwf5OiI8zR07cRw6SPsGw&s=19

How did I missed this thread after 2018 ? That Matra design was pretty smart but perhaps a little too complex. If the rotating mechanism or the VG wing fail, landing will be... complicated.