01-22-2016, 08:57 AM
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Pixie's Resident Reptile
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Central MD, USA
Posts: 21,200
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Originally Posted by dicksbro
Today's little jewel is the Morane Saulnier N. "The Morane-Saulnier N, also known as the Morane-Saulnier Type N, was a French monoplane fighter aircraft of the First World War. Designed and manufactured by Morane-Saulnier, the Type N entered service in April 1915 with the Aéronautique Militaire designated as the MS.5 C.1. It also equipped four squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps, in which it was nicknamed the Bullet, and was operated in limited numbers by the 19th Squadron of the Imperial Russian Air Force."
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And as it so happens, I have two of them (see attached). There's this game I like, a WW I (and in another version WW II) aerial combat game that uses 1/144th scale miniatures. Wings of Glory, currently published by Ares Games. When they produce a given miniature, they go to the trouble of painting the various models in the colors/paint schemes of individual pilots, when they can. (That is, when their research gives them the needed information). In my case, the two depicted are: on the left, slightly behind, the aircraft of Sergent Jean Chaput, Escadrille N. 31; on the right, the aircraft of Eugène Gilbert, Escadrille MS. 49 . Both Aéronautique Militaire.
Interesting thing about the M-S Type N; it was never equipped with a synchronization gear; instead, it relied on the less efficient, and somewhat more hazardous deflector wedges pioneered by Roland Garros.
And the squadron designations above: the French were the only ones to have homogenous squadrons at the beginning of the war: This was vastly easier on the ground crews, as it meant they did not have to try and stock spare parts for 4 or five different aircraft types, or learn as many different rigging schemes, etc. But it also meant that the French designated their squadrons with both a service series number and an abbreviation indicating the aircraft manufacturer of the type the squadron was equipped with. (Nieuport, or Morane-Saulnier in the above examples). Theoretically, the alphabetic designation would change when the squadron re-equipped, but this did not always happen.
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