Dale Rooney pilots his Nieuport 28 biplane... Sunday, July 16, 2023

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The *Nieuport 28* was a French biplane fighter aircraft flown during World War I, built by Nieuport and designed by Gustave Delage ¹. It was the first fighter airplane flown in combat by pilots of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in WWI ². The Nieuport 28 continued a similar design philosophy of a lightweight and highly maneuverable aircraft, owing its lineage to the successful line of sesquiplane fighters that included the Nieuport 17 ¹. The Nieuport 28 design advanced the concept of the lightly built, highly maneuverable rotary engined fighter typified by the Nieuport 17 to the more demanding conditions of the times ¹. The Nieuport 28 was armed with a single synchronized Vickers 7.7mm machine gun and had a more powerful engine and a new wing structure ³. It was designed to be an excellent example of the step-by-step evolution of a single basic design to its point of ultimate development and then its transition into a new model to meet changing requirements ¹.

¹: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieupor...
²: https://www.airdromeaeroplanes.com/ni...
³: https://sandiegoairandspace.org/colle...

Source: Conversation with Bing, 10/10/2023
(1) Nieuport 28 - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieupor....
(2) Airdrome Aeroplanes ~ Holden, MO. https://www.airdromeaeroplanes.com/ni....
(3) San Diego Air & Space Museum - Historical Balboa Park, San Diego. https://sandiegoairandspace.org/colle....
(4) 1918 Nieuport 28 - The American Heritage Museum. https://www.americanheritagemuseum.or....

Dale Rooney pilots his Nieuport 28 biplane... Sunday, July 16, 2023