Italeri 2508 - 1/32 Nieuport 17 WWI  [IT-2508S]

NIEUPORT 17

The French biplane fighter Nieuport 17 was straight produced from its predecessor, the Nieuport 11, and it adopted several improvements, like the larger wings and so the best engine, to improve its aerodynamic and its particular performance. The very first variations remained designed with the Lewis 7.7 mm device weapon set up on upper wing. The Lewis tool had been changed, inside the French Aèronatique Militaire fighters, with a contemporary synchronized 7,7 mm. Vickers unit weapon firing through propeller disc. The Nieuport 17 had been applied to the western front part from middle of 1916 and it has dramatically included with counterbalance the environment superiority from the German fighters. The Nieuport 17 was in fact flown by famous aces that obtained some victories about it because of the fact British ace Albert Ball as well as the Canadian ace W.A. Bishop.

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• Model size: 18cm
• Box size.: 290 x 190 x 45 mm