Captured Nieuport 11

mindphaser · 9 August 2006, 10:54 AM

I've just prepared to collect informations for building Nieuport 11 captured by Austro Hungarian forces. This plane you can see on added photo of this thread. It was probably Italian production. I would like to know which camo it got after capturing. I guess it was completely in colour of clear doped linen on all surfaces. But I don't know if the Italian tricolours were on the bottom of the main wings as was common in the case of Italian aircrafts or not. Were the crosses on bottom part of down wings? Has someone another photo of this machine?

17 September 2006, 05:20 AM

Mindphaser,

this captured Nieuport 11 (Ni.1615) was covered with clear doped linen, nor the Italian green nor the red can be seen on this photo in Luftfahrtruppe markings. The crosses were added to the bottom of the wings as well.

photo from: "Fejezetek a magyar katonai repülés történetéből" (ISBN 963 10 695 9)
Nieuport11_00.27_resize.jpg

regards, Peter

mindphaser · 17 September 2006, 10:31 AM

Hi Peter, thank's a lot for the photo of Nie11 nr.1615 which you submited on this forum. Now I can start to build the model of this catured machine.