Talk:Nieuport 31

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this is a duplicate page - the Nieuport 31 was exactly the same aircraft described on Nieuport-Delage Sesquiplan - the other name commonly used (especially in the press) for this type, hence the reason this was a redirect there... NiD.29 (talk) 07:11, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is no mention of the Nieuport 31 on the Nieuport-Delage Sesquiplan page nor any information about the Le Rhone engined fighter; since Green and Swanborough have the 31 as a distinct type it seemed to me it was worth a WP article of its own. If we know enough to add the racer as a variant here, with a cite supporting the association, that would be good; we could also link the Sesquiplan page. There are such mentions of the NiD 29Vs on the Nieuport-Delage NiD 29 page. Alternatively we could put what little technical info we have and the racing history here, with a redirect from Nieuport-Delage Sesquiplan. TSRL (talk) 09:15, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The first LeRhone-engined fighter (with stringered fuselage) was the Nieuport Madon [1] (no number tho) and was developed in parallel with the 28 and was followed by the Nieuport 31Rh/31 C.1[2] with a monocoque fuselage also with LeRhone developed in parallel with the 29, then there is the Nieuport-Delage "Sesquiplan"[3][4] which used the same fuselage but new engine, wings, undercarriage and tail, and finally the the Nieuport-Delage 42S[5] which had basically a 42 fuselage with a new wing.

For some reason I had recalled seeing the 31 designation applied to the racers - perhaps not though the 31 did evolve into the racer and development was hardly "abandoned" as fighters a-z would have it.[6]