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| Early Belgian Two seater probably being used as a squadron hack long after it was obsolete as a combat type. The large windscreen/turtledeck was intended to protect the passenger in the front seat while he stood up through the top wing hoping to take pot shots at any marauding Germans. |
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| Factory-built single seat Nieuport 10 C.1 scout - still in Belgian service in 1917. |
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| French single seater in a widely carried early colour scheme. The colours are unknown and could also have been the yellow as shown on the Nieuport IV profiles |
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| Prior to the arrival of the Nieuport 11 (which finished off the Fokker Scourge), the Nieuport 10 held the line, and probably did more to stop the threat than the Moranes Bullets, Nieuport 11's and the DH2's combined. This is the third Nieuport 10 to be flown by Guynemer, who was to work his way though the Nieuport stable in his climb to being the top French ace. |
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| Italy was an early user of the Nieuport (one was on the first military operations) and the Nieuport 10 was quickly brought into service, with Italy getting some of the earliest batches. Nieuport-Macchi built both single and two seat Nieuport 10's, and was producing trainers well into 1918, as evidenced by this late camouflaged example. Single seaters wearing a similar camouflage scheme were used to escort Caproni bombers. |
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| Nieuport 10 from one of the earliest batches still in French colours while in the service of the British Royal Naval Air Service (R.N.A.S.) in the north of France. |
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| One of a group of similarly painted early Nieuport 10's which lacked even the RNAS serials. |
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| This R.N.A.S. Nieuport 10 helped gain the first Canadian airial victory, over a German seaplane above the North Sea, before itself coming to grief from a mechanical problem on the way home. |
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| French built Nieuport 10 in Russian service,with roundels in the normal French positions. |
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| Dux built a large number of Nieuport 10's under license in Russia, and made a number of their own modifications. This example is fitted with a 100 hp Gnome Monosoupape in a cowling with extra cooling holes, along with a fixed Vickers on the top wing, along with its ammunition in a faired box. Roundels were used in 14 positions on most of the Dux-built machines. |
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| Many Nieuport 10's were used as intermediate trainers until the supply of ex-operations machines ran out, prompting Nieuport to produce them specificly for training with a few modifications as the Nieuport 83 E.2. A number of companies produced them under license including the Japanese naval aircraft factory at Tokorosawa, and Nakajima. In Japanese service it was designated the Ko.2 and remained in service through to the late 1920's. |
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