wanted a Nieuport 28 because that was the fighter his squadron had flown during World War I. “All the old guys I talked to told me, ‘Don’t build the original airplane because it was a POS ...

But flyable airplanes from the early years of aviation are very rare, and the moviemakers’ first challenge was to find enough of them to put together a mock squadron. The only genuine Nieuport ...

Fighter aircraft are ofttimes named for birds of ... larger than the dimunitive [sic] and delighfully [sic] easy to fly Nieuport, the immense torque of the big motor meant that the Camel was ...