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| Unmarked Nieuport IV.G as used by many countries prior to WW1. Several Italian machines like this were among the first aircraft to be used on combat missions, for the first ever reconnaissance flights (23 October 1911), dropping the first bombs (1 November 1911) and leaflets (15 January 1912) during the 1911-1912 Italo-Turkish war. |
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| An R.F.C. Nieuport IV.G purchased from the famous pre-war aviator and aircraft builder Claude Grahame-White in March 1913 following a very successful racing career in the US, and stationed at Farnborough with the Royal Aircraft Factory until 20 August 1913. |
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| A Nieuport IV.G flown by Lt. Petr Nikolaevich Nesterov in which he performed the first ever inside loop on August 27, 1913 over Kiev, a month before Pegoud repeated it in front of the Parisian crowds. For his trouble, Lt. Nesterov was arrested for endangering government property and released when Pegoud's loop became public knowledge. |
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| French Nieuport VI.M during the opening months of the great war. |
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| French built Nieuport VI.M with the Imperial Russian Air Service. |
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| One of the 12 Nieuport VI.H's that served with the Royal Naval Air Service for floatplane training at Lake Windermere in the UK. This machine originally had the French serial 341, which was still visible over and under the leading edge of the tailplane. |
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| French Nieuport VI.H that was flown from a pair of captured ships operated by the Egyptian Port Authority with French pilots and British observers in support of Allied naval operations in the Mediteranean. These helped the French and British navies maintain dominance over the area, and later conducted some of the early reconaissance flights over the Dardanelles. |
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