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Nieuport 2N

Back to 1896-1913 - Pioneer Era

photo of a 1911 Nieuport 2N on the ground

Nieuport 2N

  • : France
  • : 1911
  • : 28 HP Nieuport / 100 HP Gnome
  • 28 - 100
  • 27 ' 6"
  • 74 mph (119 km/hr)
  • 700 lbs (318 kg)

  • : Static Exhibit
  • 23 '
  • : Reproduction

Beginning in 1909, the brothers Édouard and Charles Nieuport, designed, tested and raced a series of successful monoplane aircraft.

Their popular designs won many awards and prizes at important competitions throughout Europe. Such was the demand that production was even licensed internationally. Sadly, both brothers would lose their lives in flying accidents between 1911 and 1913. By 1914, Gustave Delage had joined the effort and began to design a series of sesquiplane biplanes that would become some of the legendary fighter aircraft of WW1.

As aircraft controls had not been standardized in 1911, the Nieuport 2N was complicated. In contemporary aircraft, the rudder bar controls direction (yaw), and the control stick controls both the ailerons (roll) and elevators (pitch). The roles are reversed in the 2N with the rudder bar warping the wings (roll) and the stick controlling the rudder (yaw). The Aerodrome’s Nieuport II N was built to original specifications by Cole Palen in Florida during the mid-1970s. It has taxied but never flown.


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