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Nieuport X 1:32
« on: May 22, 2017, 06:34:28 AM »
As my Parasol comes to completion, I'm looking to my next project. I have been thinking about the different Nieuports, and hovering between a 17 based on the Academy kit, a scratch built 12 or a similar 10

Then I found this:



She is a Nieuport X Monoplan of Escadrille 12. How cool is that!

There are some lovely photos on the Escadrille site, including more photos of Parasols than I thought possible: http://albindenis.free.fr/Site_escadrille/Page_Insignes_SHD_Homologues.htm

So, I'm planning to build a Nieuport X monoplan, but I can't find a drawing. Can anyone help?

Richard
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Re: Nieuport X
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2017, 09:50:43 PM »
Cool? It's chilling!
Popcorn at the ready!

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Re: Nieuport X
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2017, 10:45:52 PM »
Pulling up my chair also.  Looking forward to your next build.

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Re: Nieuport X
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2017, 10:59:37 PM »
I'm still looking for a drawing if possible. I can find several for the earlier aeroplanes - the IV and the II for instance. All I have for the 50hp Monoplan are drawings of the racer

Otherwise I'll have to make it up based on the XB, the earlier 'planes and some basic dimensions

Can anyone help?

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Re: Nieuport X
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2017, 02:25:49 AM »
I think I may have found a drawing: https://www.hydroretro.net/etudegh/nieuportflotteurs.pdf

Page 12

Reading through that PDF, I'm a bit confused about engine types, mine is getting a seven cylinder Gnome Omega. I wonder where that drawing came from originally?

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Re: Nieuport X
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2017, 03:25:21 AM »
Sorry Richard that I cannot help you with the drawings: these lesser known types are sometimes difficult to find information on so you have to use your imagination and a certain amount of license. Never mind - who is going to challenge you and prove you wrong?

I too have pulled up my chair and will be keeping an eye on progress - if it is anything like your current build it is going to be a stunner.

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Re: Nieuport X
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2017, 03:30:59 AM »
I think I'm going to have to take whatever seems closest, compare to photos and make some drawings

I may pop that blue and white SPA 12 pennant on the side. I'm not sure about cockades and rudder bars though. I believe the French started using them in 1912, which means the 'plane should be carrying them

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Re: Nieuport X
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2017, 06:03:25 AM »
Richard,
 I will flick through French Aircraft of the First World Warand see if I can come up with any tidbits  ;)

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Re: Nieuport X
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2017, 07:46:16 AM »
Richard,
 I will flick through French Aircraft of the First World Warand see if I can come up with any tidbits  ;)

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I have been trawling through Flight magazine for 1912-1914, and if I wanted a drawing for a B.E.2A, a Flanders monoplane or a dozen more obscure 'planes, they are all in there. Nieuport seem to have managed to escape, apart from some stuff on sporting monoplanes

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Re: Nieuport X
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2017, 08:07:36 AM »
Perhaps I will do better with l'Aerophile: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6551968s/f38.item

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Re: Nieuport X
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2017, 07:17:08 AM »
Well, what have I learned? Flugsport has more technical details, L'Aerophile has a lot more lighter than air machines. And a great many more pretty ladies in hats

There is a strong thread of making 'model' aeroplanes in both magazines. These are flying models, not our representations of historic machines

And no Nieuport X

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Re: Nieuport X
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2017, 10:08:00 AM »
Richard, I always thought the Nieuport X and the Nieuport 10 were one in the same, and according to some sources, they are.  However, this popped up on a quick search.
http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft28695.htm
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/nieuport.html

Hope this helps.
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Re: Nieuport X
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Re: Nieuport X
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2017, 03:07:33 PM »
This looks like the same beastie too, Sir...



Found it here, but not much other help there....

http://www.digitalhistoryproject.com/2012/06/world-war-i-airplanes-zeppelins.html

By the way, the motor almost certainly would be a 14 cylinder twin-row Gnome, of 140/160 horsepower.