Navarre & Guynemer N11 help please..

[rabu]

Great link, thanks a lot!

Here's a beta shot of my Nieuport 11 for Over Flanders Fields that Guynemer flew paitned in "horizon blue"

[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

[rabu]

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

Thanks, Taz. I thought that the museum rose one in France was one of the few remaining original N11s? ..not so?

[Taz]

rabu- It is an original N.11 airframe, just not representative of what they looked like in 1915-1917. If you are a modeler or artist, this aircraft is not one from which you would copy details except for the basic airframe and fabric.

Taz
Terry Phillips

[rabu]

Originally Posted by Taz

rabu- It is an original N.11 airframe, just not representative of what they looked like in 1915-1917. If you are a modeler or artist, this aircraft is not one from which you would copy details except for the basic airframe and fabric.

Taz
Terry Phillips

OK, gott it.. I had already noticed the roundels were wrong on it too. Still a beauty though.

[StephenLawson]

Originally Posted by Gregvan

"...Interestingly, in Bernard Klaeylé and Philippe Osché's marvelous book on "Guynemer, les Avions d'un As", there is a photo and a color profile of sous-lieutenant Bucquet's Nieupoprt 16 N 1386 of escadrille N3. According to the authors, it too was painted red on the fuselage, upper wing surfaces and wheel covers. It also displayed a white stork emblem and white "5" on the aft fuselage.

It would seem that Eduard agrees.