SNCASE SE-2300
{{Short description|French two/three seat low wing, single engine touring aircraft}}
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The Sud-Est SE-2300 or S.N.C.A.S.E. SE-2300 was a two/three seat low wing, single engine touring aircraft, built just after World War II in France. The SE-2310 was a tricycle undercarriage variant. Neither type went into production.
Design and development
Pierre Satre, who later was chief designer of the Concorde, began the SE-2300 design during World War II and it first flew on 26 October 1945. It was a conventionally laid out, all metal, two seat, single engine cantilever monoplane, with tapered low wings having 4° of dihedral built around inverted U-section main and auxiliary spars. The wings had a centre section integral with the fuselage and two outer panels, all covered with electrically welded skin. There were plain flaps, with a maximum deflection of 40°.
The fuselage of the SE-2300 was constructed from four pre-formed panels welded together. A 140 hp (104 kW) Renault Bengali 4 four cylinder, inverted, air-cooled inline engine, fed from a fuselage tank, drove a two blade propeller. The over-wing cabin seated two side-by-side with dual controls. Behind these seats was space for a third (optional in the SE-2300 and standard in the SE-2310 variant) and baggage. There were access doors and rear view transparencies on both sides. At the rear, the tailplane was mounted at mid-fuselage and the fin and deep rudder were straight tapered except near the keel and almost triangular above the fuselage.
The first and only SE-2300 had a fixed conventional undercarriage with oleo-pneumatic springing, faired main legs and wheels and a swivelling tailwheel. The two SE-2310s had tricycle undercarriages, the first unfaired but the second with faired legs and spats.
Operational history
With a four-seat version, the SE-2311 under development but unbuilt, the three seat SE-3010 was entered into a 1946 French Transport Ministry contest for a four-seat tourist aircraft in February 1946. It was not successful, the award going to the Nord 1200 Norécrin and development of the SE-2300 series was abandoned. The last example remained in use until at least 1956 as a company hack.
Variants
;SE-2300: Original version, two or three seats, conventional undercarriage.
;SE-2310: Three seats, tricycle undercarriage. Two built, the second with faired undercarriage legs and wheels.
;SE-2311: Three seat, {{convert|135|hp|kW|abbr=on|0|disp=flip}} Regnier 4L-00 engine.
Specifications (SE-2300)
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- Landing speed: 75 km/h (47 mph; 40 kn)
- Landing distance: 300 m (985 ft) from 8 m (26 ft) with flaps down
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References
{{commons category|SNCASE SE-2300}}
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{{cite web |url=http://www.aviafrance.com/s-n-c-a-s-e-se-2310-aviation-france-1467.htm
|title=SE-2310 |access-date=17 November 2012}}
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