Word: nieuport
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...North Sea tossed and heaved. The tides rose ominously. Waves slapped and pounded the stone dykes at Zeebrugge and Nieuport. An Eastern wind blew foam from the sea onto the land...
...climbed into a French fighting plane, a 300-horsepower Nieuport; did loop-the-loops, head-spins, side-drifts, grapevines, fluttering-leaves over Paris, on the day he told French senators: "That [Atlantic] flight of mine has not done anything to advance the cause of civilization. Yet I am not unaware that it marks a date...
Died. Henri Geeraert, 61, sluice-keeper who stopped the German advance on Calais in. 1914; in Bruges, Belgium, after a long illness. Geeraert kept the sluices of Nieuport. He knew that German armies were plunging across Belgium to the sea. He opened the locks. Into the flat country flowed the water; within 48 hours the ground was spongy, soon it was a marsh in which German soldiers struggled with plunging horses, foundering field-pieces. Gradually the water rose, until it became a lake two miles wide, barring off the Germans from Nieuport to Dixmude. The Belgian army, which had been...
Captain Charles Nungesser, French ace: "My bride (who was Miss Consuelo Hatmaker of Manhattan) and I cut short our honeymoon so that I could start on a spectacular tour of official flying exhibitions throughout France. In my veteran Nieuport plane, I will exhibit fighting tactics and stunts I used in the war. The tour is avowedly propaganda to recruit pilots...
Lecointe climbed for an hour and twenty minutes in a Nieuport-Delace plane with Hispano motor 454. It took him 35 minutes to coast back to Earth. He wore electric-heated fur clothing, breathed from an oxygen bottle above 5,000 meters, used benzol fuel for the first 6,000 meters and above that gasoline. His thermometer broke at 40° below zero, Fahrenheit, and a broken oxygen bottle robbed him of one or two thousand meters more. He said: "If the weather's fair I may try it again...