Nieuport 12
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| Nieuport 12 | |
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| Type | Fighter |
| Manufacturer | Nieuport |
| Designed by | Gustave Delage |
| Primary users | France Russian Empire |
| Developed from | Nieuport 10 |
The Nieuport 12 was a French biplane fighter aircraft during World War I.
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[edit] Design and development
To improve the performance of the Nieuport 10 a larger and re-engined version was developed as the Nieuport 12. A Lewis gun was fitted to the rear cockpit for use of the observer and the pilot sometimes had a Lewis gun fixed to the upper wing firing over the propellor. It could be fitted with either a 100hp (82kW) or 130hp (97kW) Clerget engine mounted in the nose.
[edit] Operators
- Royal Flying Corps
- Royal Naval Air Service
- No. 7 Squadron RNAS
- No. 10 Squadron RNAS
[edit] Specifications (110 hp Clerget engine)
This aircraft article is missing some (or all) of its specifications. If you have a source, you can help Wikipedia by adding them.Data from The Complete Book of Fighters [1]
General characteristics
- Crew: 2 (pilot, observer)
- Length: 7.00 m (22 ft 11½ in)
- Wingspan: 9.00 m (29 ft 6 in)
- Wing area: 22.0 m² (237 ft²)
- Empty weight: 550 kg (1,213 lb)
- Gross weight: 850 kg (1,874 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Clerget, 82 kW (110 hp)
Performance
Armament
- One machine gun in rear cockpit (Occasionally one machine gun braced to upper wing)
[edit] See also
Related development
Related lists
- List of military aircraft of France
- List of aircraft of the Royal Flying Corps
- List of aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service
- List of fighter aircraft
[edit] References
[edit] Notes
- ^ Green and Swanborough 1994, p.431.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985). Orbis Publishing, 2597.
- Green, W; Swanborough, G (1994). The Complete Book of Fighters. Smithmark. ISBN 0-8317-3939-8.
- Thetford, Owen (1978). British Naval Aircraft since 1912. London: Putnam. ISBN 0 85177 861 5.
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