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Nieuport
lj-plane,
Type 12.
biplane with a larger top plane and a smaller bottom plane. machines are built by several firms, some of which carry out
This type is produced by the Nieuport firm, and it is said the detail construction differently. This is a great drawback
that already in 1910 the Swiss aeroplane designer Schneider, from the point of view of upkeep and repair of the machines
who was then connected with the Nieuport works, urged the
• In this connection it might be pointed out that Schneider, who is now the
construction of a i£ plane, in order to combine the advantages designer of the German L.V.G. biplanes, is reported to have taken with him
of the monoplane (speed and ease of handling) with those of several Nieuport drawings and calculations.—ED.
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