| SE-2100 | |
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| Role | Two seat experimental tailless pusher touring aircraftType of 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, later the chief designer of the Concorde, as a response to a 1943 specification by the Vichy French Air Ministry for a two-seat touring aircraft. 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.
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. At different times the undercarriage legs and wheels were unfaired or faired.
The SE-2010 flew for the first time on 4 October 1945. Despite demonstrating promising performance and showing high manoeuvrability when demonstrated at the 1946 Paris Air Show, no production followed, with the prototype surviving into the early 1950s.
Specifications
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1948
General characteristics
- Crew: Two
- Length: 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in)
- Wingspan: 9.89 m (32 ft 5 in)
- Height: 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
- Wing area: 15.11 m (162.6 sq ft)
- Airfoil: S.T. Ae.230 (Abrial-3) at root, NACA 009 at tips
- Empty weight: 518 kg (1,142 lb)
- Gross weight: 800 kg (1,764 lb)
- Fuel capacity: 144 L (31.7 Imp gal; 38.0 US gal)
- Powerplant: 1 × Renault 4Pei 4-cylinder inverted air-cooled inline engine, 140 kW (190 hp) at 500 m (1,640 ft) and 2,400 rpm
- Propellers: 2-bladed, 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) diameter wooden
Performance
- Maximum speed: 226 km/h (140 mph, 122 kn)
- Cruise speed: 198 km/h (123 mph, 107 kn)
- Range: 500 km (310 mi, 270 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 5,000 m (16,000 ft)
- Wing loading: 52.83 kg/m (10.82 lb/sq ft)
- Landing speed: 90 km/h (56 mph; 49 kn)
References
- ^ "Satre SE-2100". T.W.I.T.T. (The Wing is the Thing). Archived from the original on 14 April 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
- ^ de Narbonne 2005, pp. 70–71
- ^ Bridgman 1948, pp. 159c–160c
- de Narbonne 2005, p. 70
- Pelletier 1996, p. 11
- de Narbonne 2005, p. 73
- de Narbonne 2005, pp. 70, 73
Bibliography
- Bridgman, Leonard (1948). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1948. London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Co. Ltd.
- de Narbonne, Roland (October 2005). "Octobre 1945, dans l'aéronautique française: Trois espoirs déçus". Le Fana de l'Aviation (in French). No. 431. pp. 70–75.
- Pelletier, Alain J. (September–October 1996). ""Towards the Ideal Aircraft: The Life and Times of the Flying Wing, Part Two". Air Enthusiast. No. 65. pp. 8–19. ISSN 0143-5450.
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