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Encyclopedia > Nieuport 10
Nie 10
Type Fighter
Manufacturer Nieuport
Designed by Gustave Delage
Introduction 1914

The Nieuport 10 was a French biplane fighter aircraft during World War I. An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. ... Nieuport was a French aeroplane manufacturer founded in 1909 by Édouard de Nié Port. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1914: Events January January 1 - The St. ... Hs123 biplane. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ...


In January 1914 designer Gustave Delage joined the "Société Anonyme des Establissements Nieuport" and started the series of aircraft that made him and the company famous. The first of these was the Nieuport 10, a small two-seat reconnaissance biplane with the distinctive "V" struts. The lower wing was much smaller in area than the upper wing and the concept combined the strength of the biplanes wire braced wing cell with the stability and good visibility of the parasol monoplane. An amateur-built aircraft featuring a parasol wing A parasol wing monoplane is an aircraft design in which the wing is not mounted directly to the fuselage, but rather, the fuselage is supported beneath it by a set of struts. ...


The two seaters proved underpowered and were used primarily for observation. Many were converted to single seat fighters by simply covering the front cockpit, and adding an upward firing Lewis machine gun to the center section of the top wing. The Lewis Gun was a pre-WWI era British machine gun that continued to see service all the way through WWII. It is visually distinctive because of the wide tubular cooling shroud around the barrel, and the top mounted drum magazines. ...


Concurrently with this program, Delage designed and built the Nieuport Bébé for the Gordon-Bennett race, and developed this into the Type 11 scout. When the Nieuport 11 appeared at the front, the main duty of the model 10 became that of a training machine. James Gordon Bennett, Jr. ... The Nieuport 11 was designed in response to the Fokker Scourge of 1915. ...

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Operators

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Specifications (Nie 10)

General characteristics

  • Crew: one, pilot
  • Length: 7.05 m (23 ft 3 in)
  • Wingspan: 7.92 m (26 ft 11 in)
  • Height: ()
  • Wing area: 18 m² (193.7 ft²)
  • Empty weight: 410 kg (902 lb)
  • Loaded weight: 660 kg (1,451 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1× le Rhone rotary, (80 hp)60 kW

Performance

Armament

The distance AB is the wing span of this Aer Lingus Airbus A320. ... VNO of an aircraft is the V speed which refers to the velocity of normal operation. ... In aeronautics, the service ceiling is the maximum density altitude where the best rate of climb airspeed will produce a 100 feet per minute climb(twin engine) and 50 feet(single engine) at maximum weight while in a clean configuration with maximum continuous power. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... The Lewis Gun is a pre-World War I era squad automatic weapon/machine gun of American design that was most widely used by the forces of the British Empire. ...

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