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Originally Posted by Taz
The same photo of Commandant de Rose is in Thenault's book The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille.
The N.11 in the museum is not a representative wartime aircraft according to Bernard Klaeylé and is, as Greg stated, merely marked with de Rose's personal rose marking. It has a non-standard machine gun mount, tail skid, and other non-standard features I forget. Fine Arts Models faithfully copied the museum aircraft for their $6500 1/15 scale N.11 and did not realize it represented a configuration not found on any wartime aircraft. Still pretty, though, and an extremely accurate representation of the museum aircraft for well to do clients.
Taz
Terry Phillips
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Thanks, Taz. I thought that the museum rose one in France was one of the few remaining original N11s? ..not so?