The Nieuport 11 was designed in response to the Fokker Scourge of 1915. Anthony Fokker's Eindecker aircraft were handing air superiority to the Central Powers, making Allied aerial observation very difficult. Nieuport was a French aeroplane manufacturer founded in 1909 by Édouard de Nié Port. ... Hotchkiss may refer to one of several articles in Wikipedia: Hotchkiss (auto), a French auto manufacturer Hotchkiss, Colorado, a town in the USA, or Hotchkiss School, a preparatory school in Connecticut, USA Hotchkiss is also the generic name for office staplers in Japan and Korea, probably deriving from the brand... The Lewis Gun was a pre-WWI era American design of machine gun most widely used by the British and Imperial armies that continued to see service all the way through to WWII. It is visually distinctive because of the wide tubular cooling shroud around the barrel, and the top... The Fokker Scourge, a term coined by the British press, was a period of time in World War I in the summer of 1915. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Fokker Eindecker was a German First World War monoplane single-seat fighter aircraft designed by Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker. ...

Gustave Delage's answer to the Fokker menace was a scaled down version of the Nieuport 10 fighter. This small, lightly loaded sesquiplane (in fact, pilots called it Bébé) was not only faster than the Eindeckers, it could literally fly circles around the German design.

The designation "sesquiplane" meant that the lower wing was half the area of the upper wing, and despite the "Vee-strut" stabilizing, tended to twist and bend under very high stress. The airplane was controlled by ailerons, compared to the Fokker's obsolete wing-warping technology.

The Fokker Eindecker's main advantage in combat was that the armament was synchronized to fire through the aircraft's propeller. While at the time, the Allies did not possess a similar gun system, the Nie 11's biplane design meant that a Lewis or Hotchkiss machine gun could be mounted on the top wing to fire over the propeller, achieving similar results.

The plane was utilized in World War I. It reached the French front in January 1916, and 90 were in service within the month. Nieuport 11's were supplied to the Aviation Militaire, the Royal Naval Air Service, the Dutch air service, Russia, and Italy. (More than 450 were license produced by Italian companies.) Look up January in Wiktionary, the free dictionary January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ...

Some Nie 11's were modified to fire rockets from the struts.

See also: List of military aircraft of France France has used many military aircraft both in its air force, the Armée de lAir, and other branches of its armed forces. ...

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