Nieuport-Delage NiD-120

The Nieuport-Delage NiD 120 was a French single-seat parasol monoplane fighter of the 1930s, built in several versions with different engines. It answered a 1930 French Air Force specification for an all-metal fighter with a 650 horsepower engine, a speed of 350 kilometres per hour and a ceiling of 9,000 metres, one of eleven designs from 27 offered that were taken to prototype stage. The first to fly, on 23 July 1932, was the Hispano-powered NiD 122, and it was destroyed in a fatal crash on 13 April 1933 when wing flutter broke off an aileron during a demonstration to members of the French Parliament. The French Air Force rejected the type, but Peru, seeking modern fighters after the start of the Colombia-Peru War, bought a dozen. Deliveries began at the end of 1934, spare parts ran short after the French industry was nationalized in 1936, and the survivors were scrapped in late 1940.