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1915
1915 - 0189.PDF
MARCH 19, 1915. [/jJGHf] A TWO-SEATER NIEUPORT BIPLANE. IN the accompanying photographs is seen a biplane which has been recently issued from the Nieuport works Hitherto the Nieuport firm have chiefly concentrated object of improving the views from both pilot's and passenger's seats and to give a gunner as far as possible a free range of firing in any direction. Three-quarter front view of the two-seater Nieuport biplane. The view from the pilot's seat is excellent In every directioa owing to the small chord of the lower plane, whilst that of the gunner is equally good, he being able to look over the lower plane for a forward and downward view. By standing up in his seat, with his bsdy projecting through the opening in the top plane, he is free to fire his rifle in any direction except straight downwards. their energies on machines of the monoplane type, and with the exception of the extra pair of wings their new machine follows very closely on the lines of the mono planes that made the late Nieuport brothers famous, and it will be noted that everything has been done with the Generally speaking, this Nieuport military tractor biplane follows standard practice as regards the general arrangement, but upon closer examination several original ideas are noticed. From the photographs it will be seen that only one I "\1 mm "\l^mm Ss. *N^ r\ ^^B ^^^^1 HBHft^M'T"'"'^ ^^H View from above of the Nieuport two-seater biplane, showing the hole in the top plane for the gunner when he wishes to fire in an upward or iorward direction. 189 c
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