What Nieuport flew the Escadrille N.155?

[Dario_Silva]

Hello everyone!!
Does some information exist on which types of airplanes Nieuport flew with the N.155, between August and November of 1917?
Did this Escadrille have some sign or particular mark?
In that aerodrome operated for those days?
Grateful of any information.
Dario

[gilles]

Hello Dario

Have a look here , click on Spa155 and it will tell you that the plane is the Nieuport 24bis, the insigna a blackbird and the place Melette (nearby Chalons-en-champagne). I guess you are looking for Wilmart, am i right?

gilles

[Dario_Silva]

Friend, You is correct!
I look for pilot Wilmart!
You have some info of him?
Excellent Web site!!
Much thankful.
Dario

[gilles]

Hello Dario
you can watch Wilmart files as a member of the aeronautique at SGA memoires des hommes website (he is also in the "mort pour la france" database under the name Wilmart de Glymes).It seems that his father Raimundo had a political action in Argentina.

There is a book written by a pilot, Jean Puistienne, "escadrille 155". Unfortunately the writer arrived at N155 the 27 september 17 and Wilmart died only one month later, the 1 november. As Wilmart last combat is also Puistienne first one, he gives a description:
That day the Groupe duty was to protect observation balloons. The planes were sent N.E. of Chalons. According to Puistienne, Wilmart and his patrol met 6 albatross, he shot down one (shared with Guiraut in Bailey's french chronology book) then he lost contact with his comrades. They did not see the fight but Wilmart plane went down in flames and crashed at Souain, behind french lines. Puistienne remembers that Wilmart father was present at the burial.

In a earlier thread, a member of this forum said that Wilmart flew nieuport N4467

gilles

[Dario_Silva]

Friend Gilles.

Extraordinary all the web sites, the info and the data.

Grandiose.

I am extremely grateful of their gracefulness in these data.

Do you have the connection to the thread where appears the serial number of the Nieuport is said where he was shot down?

Do you know the colors of the "grand cacatois?"

The Nieuport 24bis of this Escadrille was in finish of the surface natural metal?

Again, thank you for their contribution.

Very valuable for my, I am very happy for their help.

Dario

[gilles]

Hello Dario

The info on the Nieuport serial (and more) come from Billy9 in this thread.
The N155 Nieuport 24bis were definitely aluminium dope. Puistienne didn't even know there was camouflaged french aircraft. He aimed and almost shoot at a camouflaged 2-seater when he saw its cockades instead of the expected black crosses.
About the "grand cacatois", i don't know its colors but it does not look like a real cacatoes. Puistienne describes it as a "bizarre bird".
Now you certainly know more than me about Wilmart and his Nieuport .

gilles

[Dario_Silva]

Friend Gilles and all.
Here an interpretation of the colors and data for Wilmart.
Comments?
Dario

Note: The drawing was carried out by Bob Pearson, alone the modifications for N 155, was carried out to illustrate this thread.