The Sud-Est or SNCASE SE-2100, sometimes known as the Satre SE-2100 after its designer, was a
tailless,
pusher configuration
In an aircraft with a pusher configuration (as opposed to a tractor configuration), the propeller(s) are mounted behind their respective engine(s). Since a pusher propeller is mounted behind the engine, the drive shaft is in compression in nor ...
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
Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its terr ...
Air Ministry for a two-seat touring aircraft.
An all-metal aircraft, it had a
low
Low or LOW or lows, may refer to:
People
* Low (surname), listing people surnamed Low
Places
* Low, Quebec, Canada
* Low, Utah, United States
* Lo Wu station (MTR code LOW), Hong Kong; a rail station
* Salzburg Airport (ICAO airport code: LO ...
,
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
In an aircraft with a pusher configuration (as opposed to a tractor configuration), the propeller(s) are mounted behind their respective engine(s). Since a pusher propeller is mounted behind the engine, the drive shaft is in compression in nor ...
behind the cabin and air-cooled via a
ventral scoop; it drove a two-blade
propeller
A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon ...
positioned just behind the trailing edge. The SE-2100's fixed,
tricycle undercarriage had
pneumatic
Pneumatics (from Greek ‘wind, breath’) is a branch of engineering that makes use of gas or pressurized air.
Pneumatic systems used in Industrial sector, industry are commonly powered by compressed air or compressed inert gases. A central ...
shock absorber
A shock absorber or damper is a mechanical or hydraulic device designed to absorb and damp shock impulses. It does this by converting the kinetic energy of the shock into another form of energy (typically heat) which is then dissipated. Most sh ...
s 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.]
Specifications
References
Bibliography
*
*
*
{{SNCASE aircraft
1940s French experimental aircraft
SE-2100
Sud-Est aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Tailless aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1945