Nieuport-Delage NiD 62
| NiD.62 | |
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| Nieuport-Delage NiD.62 C1 | |
| Role | Fighter, later fighter trainer |
| Manufacturer | Nieuport-Delage |
| First flight | January 1928 |
| Introduction | 1931 |
| Primary user | Armée de l'Air |
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The Nieuport-Delage NiD.62 was a French sesquiplane fighter from the early 1930s. This machine was a descendant of a long line of Nieuport-Delage fighters that were designed and built during the years immediately after World War I. The NiD.62 was built in 1931 as a fighter for the Armée de l'Air. It served until the late 1930s, when it was replaced by more modern monoplane fighters. By the time of the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, all of the NiD.62s had been withdrawn from front-line fighter escadrilles but were used as trainers in French flight schools. A few aircraft were employed as target tugs. After the French capitulation and German occupation of France in June 1940, the German Luftwaffe had no interest in the NiD.62s and they were scrapped. None survived the war.
Variants
- Nieuport-Delage NiD.62
- Single-seat fighter aircraft, powered by a 500 hp (370 kW) Hispano-Suiza 12Hb.
- Nieuport-Delage NiD.621
- Twin-float fighter-trainer, powered by a 500 hp (370 kW) Hispano-Suiza 12Hb. Three built
- Nieuport-Delage NiD.622
- Single-seat fighter aircraft, powered by a 500 hp (370 kW) Hispano-Suiza 12Mdsh piston engine.
- Nieuport-Delage NiD.623
- One NiD.622 converted for speed records, powered by a 600 hp (450 kW) Lorraine 12Fd Courlis.
- Nieuport-Delage NiD.624
- One NiD.622 converted for racing, powered by a 600 hp (450 kW) Lorraine 12Fd Courlis.
- Nieuport-Delage NiD.625
- One NiD.622 converted for parachute experiments.
- Nieuport-Delage NiD.626
- Export NiD.622, 12 ordered by Peru in 1933 but Nieuport-Delage NiD.123s delivered instead, powered by 500 hp (370 kW) Lorraine 12Hdr engines.
- Nieuport-Delage NiD.628
- 2 prototypes powered by a 500 hp (370 kW) Hispano-Suiza 12Mc engine.
- Nieuport-Delage NiD.629
- 50 built with modified wing and ailerons, powered by a 500 hp (370 kW) Hispano-Suiza 12Mdsh engine. .
- Nieuport-Delage NiD.72
- All-metal version powered by a 600 hp (450 kW) Hispano-Suiza 12Lb engine. Aside from the prototype, three were built for Belgium for evaluation, four went to Brazil which saw action, and three were built for Romania with wooden fuselages.[1]
- Nieuport-Delage NiD.82
- Single all-metal prototype powered by a 500 hp (370 kW) Lorraine 12ha.[2]
Operators
Specifications (NiD.622)
Data from A Gallic Rarity...The 'One-and-a-Half' Nieuport-Delage[3]
General characteristics
- Crew: one
- Length: 7.63 m (25 ft 0⅓ in)
- Wingspan: 12.00 m (39 ft 4½ in)
- Height: 3.00 m (9 ft 10⅛ in)
- Wing area: 27.41 m² (297.1 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 1,324 kg (2,919 lb)
- Loaded weight: 1,831 kg (4,036 lb)
- Max. takeoff weight: 1,880 kg (4,145 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Hispano-Suiza 12Hb liquid-cooled V12 engine, 373 kW (500 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 270 km/h (146 knots, 168 mph) at sea level
- Range: 900 km (486 nmi, 559 mi)
- Service ceiling: 7,700 m (25,300 ft)
- Climb to 3,000 m (9,845 ft): 5.3 min
- Climb to 4,000 m (13,125 ft): 7.5 min
Armament
- Guns: 2 × fixed forward-firing 7.7 mm (0.303 in) machine guns in forward fuselage
See also
- Related lists
References
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- ↑ url=https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.ca&sl=fr&u=http://www.aviafrance.com/nieuport-delage-nid-72-aviation-france-664.htm&usg=ALkJrhgBarJLY3GnthVmJ-DTBE6hPvSPKQ accessdate=Feb 2016
- ↑ url=http://www.aviafrance.com/nieuport-delage-nid-82-aviation-france-554.htm&usg=ALkJrhj2TU0tmzUm5F4M620w7r1qmToQZQ accessdate=Feb 2016
- ↑ Green and Swanborough 1990, p. 79.
- Green, William and Gordon Swanborough. "A Gallic Rarity...The 'One-and-a-Half' Nieuport-Delage". Air International, February 1990, Vol 38 No 2. Bromley, UK:Tri-Service Press. pp. 75–83, 92–93, 97. ISSN 0306-5634.
- Green, William and Gordon Swanborough. The Complete Book of Fighters. New York: Smithmark, 1994. ISBN 0-8317-3939-8.