Description

Squadron/Signal Publications [Published Date: 1997]. Soft cover, 50 pp. In very good condition with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing with a bit of the color scuffed off on the front cover and edges. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations with full color centerfold showing 13 Nieuport model illustrations. Illustrations by Ernesto Cumpian; Color by Don Greer. Contents include: Introduction; Nieuport 10c1; Nieuport 10c1. Bebe; Lewis gun mounts; Nieuport 11c.1; Nieuport 16c.1; Nieuport 17c1.; Swiss Nieuports; British Niueport Markings; 110 hp LeRhone Engine; Nieuport 17bis; Nieuport Triplanes; Nieuport 21c1; Nieuport 23c1; Nieuport 24c1 and 24bis; Nieuport 25 and 27c1; Nieuport 28c1. [From Author's note] Edouard de Nieport along with his brother Charles emigrated from Algeria to France and in 1905 Edouard began designing aircraft. Edouard de Nieuport (the brothers had changed the spelling of their name shortly after their arrival in France) had several successful monoplane designs to his credit by the time of his death in an air accident on 6 September 1911. His brother was killed in similar circumstances two years later. Fortunately the Nieuport business interests were immediately taken over by Henri de la Meurthe who founded the Society Anonyme des Etablissements Nieuport, a firm that was to produce a series of fighting scouts that would become legend during World War One, as well as preserve the change in spelling the Nieport name to Nieuport, which had been adopted by both of the late brothers.