Nieuport-Delage Ni-D-38 / Ni-D-39
Страна: Франция
Год: 1924


THE NIEUPORT-DELAGE TYPE 38 BIPLANE: A Service Machine which can be used either as a school machine or for aerial photographic work, etc. By means of an interchangeable body, this machine can also be used for commercial work, carrying two passengers. It is fitted with a 190 h.p. Renault, or 180 h p Hispano-Suiza engine. The main characteristics are: Span, 11-1 m. (36 ft. 5 ins.); length, 8 m (26 ft. 3 ins.); chord, 1-8 m. (6 ft. 0 in.); gap, 2 m. (6 ft. 6 ins.); wing area, 37-8 sq.m. (406-7 sq. ft.); weight empty. 850 kg. (1,874 lbs.); weight loaded 1,250 kg. (2,756 lbs.); weight per h.p., 6.25 kg. (13.8 lbs.); wing loading, 33-1 kg./m2. (6-75 lbs./sq. ft.); speed, 175 km.p.h. (108-75 m.p.h.; climb 1.000 m. (3,280. ft.) 8 mins. 35 secs., 3,000 m. (10,000 ft.), 36 mins. 45 secs.; ceiling, 4,000 m. (13,120 ft.).
ARMSTRONG-SIDDELEY ENGINES IN FRANCE: One of three well-known types of French aeroplanes in which British Armstrong-Siddeley aero-engines have been installed. The Nieuport-Delage type 391 transport machine, fitted with the 200-225 h.p. "Lynx."
The big boxy biplane is one of a fleet of Nieuport-Delage 391 two- or three-passenger airliners flown by French airline Cie Aerienne Francaise (CAF) in the late 1920s/early 1930s. Spanning 34ft 9in (10-59m), they were powered by the seven-cylinder 215 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IV aircooled radial engine, had fuselages of Duralumin and wood construction, and the pilot was seated in an open cockpit beneath the upper wing. Although CAF's logo is visible on the fin, no civil registration can be seen. The photo was taken at Vincennes in France during a "baptism" for a CAF service in the Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) in West Africa, when it was a French colony. The pilot, in the rearmost open cockpit, is being entertained by Cochin-Chinese dancers and musicians, but the precise date is needed.