Word: nieuport
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...circumstances were as follows: Bill arrived in Pau from Avord on Sunday evening, September 11, and on the following morning he reported at the school. He immediately began his training on an 18 metre Nieuport, single control. This was the last type of machine he had flown at Avord and it is the first type taken up at this school. After a few short flights to demonstrate his ability and to learn the machine, he was sent up for practice in spiraling. For this you ascend to 1,000 metres and from that altitude you spiral down to 600 metres...
...also been honored with another official citation by the French, it was stated at the home of his uncle, Dr. Morton Prince '75, in Boston, last evening. Prince has been a colleague of Cowdin's in the corps, and at one time they operated in company the same armored Nieuport machine. This latest citation, the news of which was just received by Dr. Prince, was caused by two articles on military aviation which were printed in the United States, and whose influence was considered valuable to the Allied cause...
Grahame--White started out on the first day to repeat his performance of last year and carried away nearly all the prizes for that day. He used a Nieuport monoplane with a 70 horse-power Gnome engine, and it was the prettiest machine on the field, as well as one of the speediest. On the second day of the meet, however, it was Beachey who was the centre of interest. The weather was unfavorable for flying, being cloudy and threatening with a small gale blowing, but in spite of this he ascended some 2,000 feet in his Curtis biplane...
...final day of the meet the weather permitted Grahame-White to show the real speed of his Nieuport monoplane and he covered the Boston Light course, a distance of 33 miles, in the remarkable time of 27 minutes, 35 1-5 seconds...