The SNCASE SE-1210 was an

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designed and built by

SNCASE SNCASE (abbreviated from ''Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est'') or Sud-Est was a French aircraft manufacturer. The company was formed on February 1, 1937, by the nationalization and merger of Lioré et Olivier, Pote ...

as a flying scale model of the proposed SE-1200 transatlantic flying boat.

Design and development

Following the end of the

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, the French aircraft manufacturer

proposed a very large, long-range

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, the SE-1200, which was intended to carry 125 passengers across the

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. The SE-1200, with a wingspan of and a

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of and powered by eight Arsenal 24H engines in four tandem pairs (the Arsenal 24H was a 24-cylinder H-24 engine based on components of the

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), would have been one of the largest aircraft in the world if completed. To enable aerodynamic tests of the design a flying scale model approximately one-third size was built. The resultant SE-1210 was powered by four

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in-line piston engines. The SE-1210, registered F-WEPI, first flew on 9 June 1948 on the Étang de Berre near SNCASE's factory at

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. After modification it was passed to the

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(CEV) for further testing which continued from December 1948 to April 1949. Following the cancellation of the SE-1200 project, testing of the SE-1210 was abandoned, with it being flown for the last time in March 1951, with the flying boat being scrapped in 1952.

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