Model Airplane News Cover for July, 1963
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Here is what the blurb about the cover has to say:

"...Builder/author Joseph Leitner developed his model plans from the Bergen Hardesty plans for the full-scale Nieuport 27 in MAN's Dec 1956 and Jan 1957 issues. Deviations from scale are minor and not readily noticeable. The model also flies well as an RC multi plane and has been attested to on the West Coast. Mrs. Bonnie Santos is our lovely model...."

About the Model

The prototype for the 8-channel 60 inch span model was a 48" span single channel version with rudder and engine control. The first model had 60 flights before a crash, and the lessons learned from the prototype went into design of the "Big One".

The plans for the full-size plane were converted to model structure retaining as much of the original as possible. All four longerons, all fuselage formers and stringers, wing ribs and spars, cabane wnd wing struts are to scale. Every alternate fuselage former aft of the cockpit has been eliminated to avoid tail heavy problems associated with the full-size airplane.

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The Nieuport Model 27
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About the Full Size Airplane

  

Nieuport Model 28
Model Airplane News Cover Art for February, 1953 and May, 1958
The 1953 cover shows the Nieuport armed with LePrieur rockets
by Jo Kotula
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The Nieuport 28 (N.28C-1) was a French biplane fighter aircraft flown during World War I, built by Nieuport and designed by Gustave Delage. Its principal claim to fame is that it was the first aircraft to see service with an American fighter squadron.

By the middle of 1917 it was obvious that the Nieuport 17 was unable to cope with the latest German fighters, and that direct developments of the 17, such as the Nieuport 24bis. were unable to offer a substantially improved performance. In fact, the Nieuport was already being rapidly replaced in French service with the SPAD S.VII.

     

Photos of the Nieuport Model 28
middle: American Ace Eddie Rickenbacker with his Nieuport 28, showing offset guns
right: Nieuport 28 armed with LePrieur rockets for use against balloons and dirigibles
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The Nieuport 28 design was an attempt to adapt the concept of the lightly built, highly maneuverable rotary engined fighter typified by the Nieuport 17 to the more demanding conditions of the times. It was designed to carry an up-to-date armament of twin synchronized machine guns, had a more powerful engine, and a new wing structure – for the first time a Nieuport biplane was fitted with conventional two spar wings, top and bottom, in place of the sesquiplane "v-strut" layout of earlier Nieuport types. Ailerons were fitted to the lower wings only. The tail unit’s design closely followed that of the Nieuport 27, but the fuselage was much slimmer, in fact it was so narrow that the machine guns had to be offset to the left

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