SNCASE SE-1010

SE-1010
Role Photo-survey aircraft
National origin France
Manufacturer SNCASE
First flight 24 November 1948
Retired 1 October 1949
Status Destroyed
Number built 1


The SNCASE SE-1010 was a late 1940s French photo-survey aircraft designed and built by SNCASE for the Institut Géographique National, one prototype was built but it crashed and the project was cancelled.[1]

Design and development

In 1945 SNCASE had designed a "stratospheric" transport for transatlantic postal work designated the SE-1000, it was not built but given a modified nose-section it was built as high-altitude photo-survey aircraft for the Institut Géographique National and designated the SE-1010.[1] If not used as a survey aircraft it was proposed to produce it as a 14-passenger transport.[1]

The SE-1010 was a sleek-looking, four-engined, mid-wing monoplane powered by four Gnome-Rhône 14R 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial engine. The prototype SE-1010, with French test registration F-WEEE, first flew on 24 November 1948.[1] On 1 October 1949 the prototype entered a flat-spin during test flying from Mariganne, it crashed killing the six crew near Carcès. The project was canceled and the three aircraft being built were not completed.[1]

Variants

SE-1000
Proposed four-engined stratoshperic transatlantic postal aircraft , not built.[1]
SE-1010
High-altitude photo-survey aircraft, one built.[1]
SE-1030
Proposed 40-passenger airliner variant, not built.[1]

Specification (Survey aircraft)

Data from French Postwar Transport Aircraft[1]

General characteristics

Performance

References

Notes
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Chillon/Dubois/Wegg 1980, p.101
Bibliography
  • Chillon, Jacques. Dubois, Jean-Pierre and Wegg, John. French Postwar Transport Aircraft, Air-Britain, 1980, ISBN 0-8513-0078-2.
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