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| Nieuport Delage 29 C.1 with Escadrille N.81 in early 1919. This type saw French service from 1918 until the early 1930's and just missed seeing action in ww1. It was the replacement for the SPAD XIII C.1 and an operational escadrille was on its way to the front when the war ended. |
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| The Nieuport-Delage 29H floatplane racer flown in the 1919 Schneider Cup Races in Bournemouth by Jean Casale. He retired with float problems and the sole machine to finish the race was disqualified after cutting a corner. |
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| One of the 10 bought by Sweden for advanced training in 1926 and designated J2. Crowns were always in the standard 6 positions, though most used smaller solid black crowns. |
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| In August 1923, 9 aircraft were painted with red triangle exercise markings, covering the crowns on the wings and the fuselage. Since the individual identities of these machines remains a mystery, I have used old 611 again. |
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| For the next several years Sweden used black-white-black roundels for exercise markings however in 1926 six Nieuport-Delage 29's had 'flags' covering the crowns, such as on 619. The flags used on the wings were full chord. |
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| The Nieuport 29 was the last Nieuport built by Macchi, originally formed as Nieuport-Macchi to build Nieuport monoplanes before World War 1. This example lacks any national markings other than the tail colours and was one of the last machines in the first batch, delivered in early 1924. |
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| Nieuport-Macchi M.29 1049 bearing the black octopus of the 70a squadriglia. The yellow horizontal tail was not a common marking on Italian aircraft of the period but the flag stripes were. Again no markings were carried on the wings. |
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| A Nieuport-Macchi M.29 with the 91a squadriglia. Macchi and Caproni built 175 and it served until 1927 when it was replaced by the Ansaldo AC.2, a license built Dewoitine D.1 |
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| The Royal Thai Air Force operated several Nieuport-Delage 29's in the early post-war period, including number 7 as depicted here, which like most lacked wing markings. |
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