Under JASDF contract, Japan Aircraft Manufacturing Co carried out a lengthy high-lift research programme with a much-modified Saab-91B Safir.
With the designation Z1G3, this aircraft has a 260 h.p. Continental IO-470-D engine, reduced span of 31ft 6in, blown flaps, large trailing-edge fillets, slotted tailplane and other changes to give it STOL performance.
Engines – Power
Nieuport Memorial Flyers Nieuport 23C-1
The Nieuport 23C-1 replica built by Nieuport Memorial Flyers made a successful maiden flight in Grenchen, Switzerland, on 21 September 2020. The aircraft, registered HB-RNA, was flown by Isidor von Arx. It is powered by the rotary engine of a Thulin A (Swedish license-built Blériot XI).
This project was started in the year 2000.
Nieuport & General Aircraft Nighthawk / Gloster Sparrowhawk
Fifty Nieuport Nighthawks, renamed Sparrowhawks, were built by Gloucester Aircraft for Japan to a 1920 order.
Nieuport-Delage 622
Circa 1940.
Nieuport-Delage 481
A single-seat, high-wing aerobatic or sporting monoplane.
Nieuport-Delage 82-C1
The 82-C1 was an all-metal version of the 62-C1.
Nieuport-Delage 62-C1
A single-seat sesquiplane fighter of partial wood construction, with monocoque fuselage, powered by a Lorraine or Hispano-Suiza engine.
Nieuport-Delage NiD 29 / Mitsubishi Ko-4
Built under license by Mitsubishi as the Ko-4
29C-1
Engine: Hispano-Suiza, 300 hp
Nieuport 31
In Sept of 1921, the French Nieuport 31 held the World’s Speed Record of 205 mph.
Nieuport 29
The 1924 Beaumont Cup race was won by Sadi Lecointe on the Nieuport 29, equipped with Hispano’s 450-horsepower V-engine. The Sadi-Lekuanta aircraft covered a distance of 300 kilometers in 57 minutes 50 seconds with an average speed of 312.39 km / h. Thus, a prize of 75,000 francs was awarded by Société Nieuport-Astra.
The Nieuport 29V set two world records in 1929.
