| SE-2100 | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Two seat experimental tailless pusher touring aircraft |
| National origin | France |
| Manufacturer | Sud-Est (Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est or SNCASE) |
| Designer | |
| Number built | 1 |
| History | |
| First flight | 4 October 1945 |
The Sud-Est or SNCASE SE-2100, sometimes known as the Satre SE-2100 after its designer, was a tailless, pusher configuration touring monoplane with a single engine and cabin for two. Only one was built.
The SE-2100 was designed by Pierre Satre, [1] [2] later the chief designer of the Concorde,[ citation needed ] as a response to a 1943 specification by the Vichy French Air Ministry for a two-seat touring aircraft. [2] An all-metal aircraft, it had a low, cantilever, straight tapered wing with 55° of sweep on the leading edge and 10.43° of dihedral. There were fixed leading edge slots and trailing edge ailerons but no conventional flaps. The wing tips carried large, rounded fins with rudder-like rear portions which only moved outwards; they were used differentially for yaw control and jointly as flaps. [3]
The SE-2010 had a short, blunt-nosed nacelle-type fuselage with a cabin which could be configured to seat one centrally or two in side-by-side, dual control configuration. The seats were just aft of the leading edge, with a baggage compartment behind them. Access was via deep, wide, forward hinged doors on both sides; to make this possible, a piece of the wing root leading edge was an integral part of each door. A 140 hp (104 kW) Renault Bengali 4 four cylinder, inverted, inline engine was mounted in pusher configuration behind the cabin and air-cooled via a ventral scoop; it drove a two-blade propeller positioned just behind the trailing edge. The SE-2100's fixed, tricycle undercarriage had pneumatic shock absorbers and mainwheel brakes; the nosewheel was free-swivelling. [3] At different times the undercarriage legs and wheels were unfaired or faired. [1]
The SE-2010 flew for the first time on 4 October 1945. [4] Despite demonstrating promising performance [5] and showing high manoeuvrability when demonstrated at the 1946 Paris Air Show, [6] no production followed, with the prototype surviving into the early 1950s. [7]
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1948 [3]
General characteristics
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