Nieuport-Delage NiD 32

The Nieuport-Delage NiD 32 was a French single-seat fighter built by Nieuport between the two World Wars, a rotary-powered naval variant of the NiD 29. It was designed in answer to a request from the French Navy for an aircraft able to launch from a platform, and competed with other types including the Hanriot HD.12 and the SPAD S.XV, while Nieuport also submitted the NiD 29. The Navy selected the NiD 32 and began testing it on a platform in March 1920, but the results were disappointing because the platform could barely support the aircraft even when it was unarmed. It was powered by a nine cylinder air-cooled Le Rhone 9R rotary engine of 130 kilowatts, had a wingspan of 9.7 metres and weighed 603 kilograms empty, and its maximum speed was 193 kilometres per hour.