Nieuport 12, 12bis, 13 & 20 |
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| Bloodthirsty looking very early RNAS Nieuport 12 with three machine guns, including 2 on a simple ring mount. |
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| Moderately early French Nieuport 12 captured by the Germans. This machine has the original small horizontal tail, later versions had an enlarged tail with an extra pair of ribs and two braces per side. |
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| Another similar French Nieuport 12 also captured by the Germans, this time on May 20th 1916. As with the last machine, the centre section is cellon covered. The lower right wing is clear doped linen with a brown or black surround. |
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| 80hp LeRhône engined Nieuport 13 used for a long range leaflet flight over Germany to Russia and returning back over Germany to Italy during the night of June 20-21 1916. It came down near the Russian border after overflying Berlin, making it the sole aircraft to do so during World War 1. |
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| Nieuport 12bis N.1596 was probably with escadrille N.90 when it was downed behind the lines in October 1916. Entente restrictions meant many aircraft were photographed only if captured, as the Germans were not nearly as constrained. |
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| Nieuport 12bis of escadrille N.37, used as a two seat fighter and general hack alongside the unit's Nieuport 17's in late 1916. The fuselage letter would normally have been the pilot's initial with N.37. The tail number is unknown. |
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| Very early Beardmore-built Nieuport 12 that is still largely unmodified from the French original, though like all Beardmore aircraft it lacks aileron washout and has a longer bottom wing. |
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| Mid production Beardmore-built Nieuport 12, in this case still armed. 'Peggy' is conjectural as only the PE is visible in the photograph. The PC10 upper surfaces and cdl sides and bottom is common on aircraft built by Beardmore, as is the stitching visible along the fuselage sides. |
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| 9238 much later in its career, and now unamred and at a training unit where it must have been completely repainted, and renamed 'No Kan Do'. Later machines had the forward fuselage redesigned, broader undercarriage struts and the fixed fin. The final result of the modifications was a slower, less manouverable aircraft whose service entry had been delayed until long after it was obsolete. |
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| RFC Nieuport 20 serving with 45 Squadron at Marie Cappel in 1917 with Sopwith 1½ strutters. The Nieuport 20 was closer structurally to the 10 than the 12, and seems have been used only by the RFC. This example has had the disliked Eteve ring removed pending the installation of a scarff ring. |
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| U.S.A.S. trainer Nieuport 80 E.2 serial N.10641. The Nieuport 80 was a late-war trainer based on the Nieuport 12 and is often mistaken for the Nieuport 12. Later examples replaced the fixed tail skid with a sturdier pivotted unit. They served in large numbers with the French and American air services and many were exported after the war. Most of those in USAS service retained French markings. |
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| Portugese Nieuport 81 E.2 serial N.10658 retaining French markings. Three of these served for a short time during 1919, and were replaced without having been repainted in Portugese markings. |
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| The Sipowicz 1 was a 1925 modification of the Nieuport 80 with slight anhedral on the top wing, massive struts prescient of those used on the Bellancas, and an Ansaldo A.1 Ballila empennage. |
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