Nieuport 24

The Nieuport 24, called the Nieuport XXIV C.1 in contemporary sources, was a French sesquiplane fighter of the First World War, designed by Gustave Delage as a development of the successful Nieuport 17. It entered service as the penultimate design suited to dogfighting tactics that were already being superseded, since larger and heavier fighters such as the SPAD VII and Albatros D.III relied on speed instead. Its small size and light weight still gave it a manoeuvrability advantage, but its performance was little better than the Nieuport 23 it was meant to replace, and it flew alongside growing numbers of SPADs. French, British and Russian units used it operationally and it served widely as an advanced trainer. Nieuports of escadrille N152 brought down the Zeppelins L49 and L50 on the night of 19 to 20 October 1917, and Dux built further examples in Russia.