Morane-Saulnier N

The Morane-Saulnier N, also known as the Type N, was a French monoplane fighter of the First World War, designed and built by Morane-Saulnier. It entered service in April 1915 with the Aeronautique Militaire as the MoS-5 C1 and also equipped four squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps, who nicknamed it the Bullet, as well as a small number of Imperial Russian units. It was a clean and streamlined aircraft but hard to fly, with stiff wing-warping lateral control, sensitive pitch and yaw from an all-flying tail and a very high landing speed for its day. It carried a single forward-firing machine gun, using the deflector wedges first used on the Type L to fire through the propeller. Only 49 were built before the type was overtaken by the pace of aircraft development.