Nieuport, later Nieuport-Delage, was a French aeroplane company that primarily built racing aircraft before World War I and fighter aircraft during World War I and between the wars.
Original colour photo of a Nieuport 23 C.1 fighter of World War I
1911 Nieuport catalogue showing an early version of the Nieuport 2
Charles Godefroy flies a Nieuport fighter through the Arc de Triomphe in 1919
Albert Ball, was a British fighter pilot during the First World War. At the time of his death he was the United Kingdom's leading flying ace, with 44 victories, and remained its fourth-highest scorer behind Edward Mannock, James McCudden, and George McElroy.
Ball with an obsolete Caudron G.3, widely used as a trainer in 1915–16
Nieuport 17, a type flown by Ball in No. 60 Squadron
Austin-Ball A.F.B.1 outside Longbridge Works, 1917