Hello,
her some pics of the Navarre first "bébé" the n°576.
he flew in nieuport "bébé" when he arrived in the N64
before in the MS12 he flew a type N I will present later....
Jean Navarre had 4 personal Nieuport in the N24 squadron.
it's quite hard to determinate the exact period because Navarre refuse absolutly to write a regular log book, too much undisciplined for that.
We know he had two planes to fly as long as he wanted (surely the 576 and the 850, and next the 872 and 1130)
He could fly 8 hour a day...
here is the information I could have about the chronology:
I find my information in the memories of Navarre written in the "la vie aérienne" in 1919 just before he died...
by the way all the "la guerre aérienne" (started in 1916) can be read on line in the BNF website, there is a lot of pics interesting...
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb327844357/date.r=mortane.langFRthe plane:
http://www.precurseursaviation.com/N11tricolor576Ox.jpg
http://forum.aviation-ancienne.fr/t8057-nieuport-ni-11-n576-jean-navarre-verdun-mars-1916
the model:
the diorama:
Navarre had a very close relation with the soldier of the tranchs. If he flys so much, it's in his mind a way to share the soldiers suffering; he won the "sentinel of verdun" nickname and was very popular between the "poilus".
If he put a french flag in the fuselage and later paint it in red, it was to be know by the soldier.
after a mission, he always give the soldiers a acrobatic show.
The squadron airfield was to far for Jean Navarre so he made a secret personal airfield near the tranchs, to be colser to attack german planes...
two week ago his airfield was discovered and bombed and he had to go back.
I wanted to represent the plane in this secret field.
I did better trace in the mud for the plane:
that's it!
Xan
