SNCASE SE-2100

SE-2100
Role Two seat experimental tailless pusher touring aircraft
National origin France
Manufacturer Sud-Est (Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est or SNCASE)
Designer Pierre Satre
First flight 4 October 1945
Number built 1


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.

Design and development

The SE-2100 was designed by Pierre Satre,[1] later the chief designer of the Concorde, at the end of World War II. 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.[2]

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 aircooled 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.[2] 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.[1]

Specifications

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1948[2]

General characteristics

Performance


References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Satre SE-2100". Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bridgman, Leonard (1952). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1948. London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Co. Ltd. p. 159c-160c.