About This File
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Nieuport N 17/23 Familly for ThirdWires First Eagles The Great Air War 1918
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File version 2.0 release date 15.11.2010
This package contains flyable 5 Nieuport 17 and 3 Nieuport 23 plane with cockpit
about authors:
Flight model peter01, member of CombatAce.com
3D Model and textures Monty CZ, member of CombatAce.com
any sugestions can be posted at combatace forum.
any changes of this file must be authorized by authors
contact us at combatace.
thanks to :
MontyCZ and Texmurphy for the original Nieuport 17
Whiteknight06604 for the N17 with uper gun
Aligator devil for is cockpit works and upgrade and hangar
peter01 for is flight model
please direct any questions about this mod to me at the below places.
instalation:
just drop in the C:\Users\username\Saved Games\ThirdWire\FirstEagles2
Technical data of the real plane:
Nieuport 17
Type single-seated fighter
Power plant one air-cooled Le Rhone 9J (9-cylinder radial engine)
with 110 HP (80.9 kW) alternatively
a Le-Clerget engine with 130 PS (95.6 kW)
Year of construction 1916
Perfomance
Maximum speed 177 km/h from ground proximity to an altitude of 2,000 m
Rate of climb climbs to 2,000 m altitude in 5.30 min
Ceiling 5,300 m
Operational range 250 km
Endurance 2 hrs
Weight
Empty weight 374 kg
Take-off weight 565 kg
Dimensions
Length 5.77 m
Height 2.44 m
Wing area 14,75 qm
Span 8.17 m
Crew 1 person
Useful load/armament
one or two Lewis machine guns or one Vickers
machine gun. Fixedly mounted on the fuselage and
firing in synchronization through the propeller arc.