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[mavrickandgoose]

There was a group going through with a guide and I overheard a interesting story about the Newport. He was saying the French were having a lot of issues with the Newport and it was very unreliable to the point that the French refused to fly it. This was at the same time the U.S was entering the war and we really had no planes. So the French gave all the newports to us Americans lol!!

[olife]

Originally Posted by mavrickandgoose

There was a group going through with a guide and I overheard a interesting story about the Newport. He was saying the French were having a lot of issues with the Newport and it was very unreliable to the point that the French refused to fly it. This was at the same time the U.S was entering the war and we really had no planes. So the French gave all the newports to us Americans lol!!

yes it is right mav,the frenchies didn't want the nieuport 28 cause it had 2 big problems : the plane can lose his wing mounting during a too violent climb and can catch fire if the pilot forget to cut the gazolin tap when he stop the engine after the landing!...mmm we were not very fair play to give to the US pilots these dangerous planes...but the americans pilots were good in the nieuports,like RICKENBAKER ,CAMPBELL OR MEISSNER ...

after the americans receive the SPAD fighters which are better.