The Nieuport 11 was a French single-seat sesquiplane fighter designed by Gustave Delage and brought into service in 1916. Small and lightly built, with a machine gun mounted above the upper wing to fire clear of the propeller, it proved fast and manoeuvrable enough to help end the period of German air superiority known as the Fokker Scourge. Its success led to a whole family of vee-strut Nieuport fighters that continued in service with France and its allies into the 1920s.
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5 January 1916
In Group: First World War Fighters, Lead sentence
The Nieuport 11 (or Nieuport XI C.1 in contemporary sources), nicknamed the Bébé, is a French World War I single seat sesquiplane fighter aircraft, designed by Gustave Delage.
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