Nieuport 24
The Nieuport 24 C.1 was a French biplane single-seat fighter of the First World War.
Development
The Nieuport 24 was designed by Gustave Delage in the Societe Anonyme des Établissements Nieuport in Issy -les -Moulineaux based on the successful Nieuport 17. She had as yet these V-shaped wing - stems, but already the aerodynamically refined fuselage with oval cross section, rounded wingtips, and the rounded tail rudder and tailplane and the new tail skid later Nieuport aircraft.
She was armed with a synchronized 7.7 mm Vickers MG, the British version with an additional Lewis machine gun, which was mounted on the upper wing.
Use
The end of 1917 the first machines to the French Air Force, however, which used them as a coach, especially in the variant E.1 came. The U.S. Army Air Service purchased the Nieuport 24 as a training aircraft. In addition, use of the Royal Naval Air Service about 50 built by the British Nieuport aircraft, and the Air Force Romania, Russia and Serbia used some Ni 24 In Japan Nakajima built the Nieuport 24 under license.