Nieuport 27
| Nieuport 27 | |
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 Nieuport 27 of the US Army Air Service 1918 |
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| Type: | Fighter plane |
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1917 |
| Commissioning: |
1917 |
The Nieuport 27 C.1 was a French biplane - Jagdeinsitzer from the year 1917th
development
The Nieuport 27 was designed by Gustave Delage at the Societé Anonyme des Établissements Nieuport in Issy-les-Moulineaux and was the last Nieuport with V-shaped wing supports to be used during the First World War . The aircraft was based on the predecessors Nieuport 17 and Nieuport 24 . The aircraft had an aerodynamically improved fuselage with an oval cross-section, a modified chassis received a new rounded horizontal stabilizer and a new grinding spur. Delage also rounded off the wing tips and the ailerons to improve rolling. The rear torso was half rounded.
The output of the Le Rhone radial engine has been increased from 110 HP of the Nieuport 17 to 120 HP (88 kW). The Nieuport 27 had a synchronized 7.7 mm Vickers or Lewis machine gun, which was mounted above the hull.
commitment
At the end of 1917 the first machines came to the French air force . The Royal Naval Air Service received at least three aircraft , which mounted an additional Lewis MG with a Foster mount on the upper wing. However, the aircraft were replaced by the SPAD S.XIII in mid-1918 . The USA ordered 287 aircraft, but presumably no more than 120 aircraft were delivered by the end of the war and were used as training aircraft for the United States Army Air Service from 1918 . Also the Italian Fliegertruppe used the driven manufactured in part by Macchi-Nieuport licenses and uprated 130-PS-Le-Rhône-9Jby engines Ni 27, wherein the Italian flyer also the hanriot hd.1 and the SPAD S.XIII preferred. Two Italian Ni 27s were captured undamaged by the Austro-Hungarian aviation troops and used before they were transferred to the Austro-Hungarian aviation arsenal for technical investigation. In 1919 Poland bought a Nieuport 27.
The most famous pilot of the Nieuport 27 was the French fighter pilot Charles Nungesser .
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data |
|---|---|
| crew | 1 |
| length | 5.74 m |
| span | 8.20 m |
| height | 2.35 m |
| Wing area | 14.75 m² |
| Empty mass | 380 kg |
| Takeoff mass | 565 kg |
| drive | a Le Rhône rotary engine |
| power | 120 hp (88 kW) |
| Top speed | 185 km / h |
| Climb performance | 3.15 min at 1000 m altitude |
| Service ceiling | 5500 m |
| Range | 250 km |
| Max. Flight duration | 1.30 h |
| Armament | 1 Vickers machine gun , cal. 7.7 mm, firing forward, synchronized |
literature
- Nieuport Fighters in Action published by Squadron / Signal Publications
- Munson, Kenneth: Combat aircraft 1914–1919 , Orell Füssli-Verlag, Zurich 1968.
- Nowarra, Heinz J .: The Development of Airplanes 1914–1918 , JF Lehmann-Verlag, Munich 1959.
- Tötschinger, Bernhard: Nieuport 27 , from: ÖFH Nachrichten 4/85, p. 36.
Web links
- Nieuport 27 Diagrams (English)
- Nieuport 27 Profiles (English)
- Photo and description (English)
- Exhibition model in the Combar Air Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tötschinger, Bernhard: Nieuport 27 , from: ÖFH Nachrichten 4/85, p. 36.
- ↑ a b Munson, Kenneth: Combat Airplanes 1914-1919 , Orell Füssli-Verlag, Zurich 1968.
- ↑ a b Nieuport 27 Replica on combatairmuseum.org
- ^ Nowarra, Heinz J .: The development of aircraft 1914–1918 , JF Lehmann-Verlag, Munich 1959: 15 m²
- ↑ Nieuport 27 ( Memento of November 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) on theaerodrome.com: also monosoupape with 160 hp
- ^ Nowarra, Heinz J .: The development of aircraft 1914-1918 , JF Lehmann-Verlag, Munich 1959: 172 km / h
- ^ Nowarra, Heinz J .: The Development of Aircraft 1914-1918 , JF Lehmann-Verlag, Munich 1959: 6,000m
- ^ Nieuport 27 ( Memento November 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) on theaerodrome.com