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    The SPAD S.VII was the first of a series of highly successful biplane fighter aircraft produced by Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD) during...
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    highly successful SPAD S.VII. During early 1917, the French designer Louis Béchereau, spurred by the approaching obsolescence of the S.VII, decided to develop...
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    The SPAD S.XII or SPAD 12 was a French single-seat biplane fighter aircraft of the First World War developed from the successful SPAD VII by Louis Béchereau...
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    Seagull SPAD S.A-1 thru 4 SPAD S.G2 SPAD S.V SPAD S.VII SPAD S.XI SPAD S.XII SPAD S.XIII SPAD S.XIV SPAD S.XV SPAD S.XVI SPAD S.XVII SPAD S.XVIII SPAD S.XIX...
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    conventional SPAD S.VII and SPAD S.XIII single-seat fighters. The SPAD S.A.2 was an improved version of the S.A.1 which first flew on 21 May 1915. The S.A-2's 110 hp...
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  • Aéroplanes Deperdussin and Blériot-SPAD, French aircraft manufacturer (1912–1921) SPAD VII, SPAD S.XII and SPAD S.XIII, French fighter planes of World...
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    The SPAD S.XI or SPAD 11 was a French two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War. The SPAD 11 was the work of Louis Béchereau, chief...
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    he was awarded the Légion d'Honneur on 4 August. He was flying a new Spad S.VII when he downed his fifth victim on 17 August 1916. Later the next month...
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    the Nieuport 16 included the Nieuport 11, Nieuport 17, Nieuport 23, SPAD S.VII, SPAD S.XIII, Farman HF.20/21, B.E.2, B.E.12, Sopwith Baby, Sopwith Pup, Sopwith...
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    The Blériot-SPAD S.20 (originally known as the SPAD S.XX) was a French fighter aircraft developed near the end of World War I. Too late to serve in the...
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    The Blériot SPAD S.510 was a French single-seat, single-engined biplane fighter aircraft. First flying in 1933, 60 were built for the Armée de l'Air (French...
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    meant to replace, and so it was operated alongside larger numbers of the SPAD S.VII, although in November 1917, out of a French frontline fighter strength...
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    aircraft. Rejected for service with French squadrons in favour of the SPAD S.VII, the type was supplied to the Aviation Militaire Belge (Belgian Military...
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    result, Baracca returned to the more manoeuvrable Spad VII, remarking, "It doesn't matter if the VII is equipped with a single gun. Provided you are a...
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    engine that powered the famous French SPAD VII and SPAD XIII World War I fighters, and the British Sopwith Dolphin and S.E. 5a, whilst in the field of ordnance...
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  • 20 Short Bombers. Towards the end of the conflict the firm built 100 SPAD S.VII French designed fighters. The company also produced ten examples of its...
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    started to receive Spad S.VII single-seat fighters in February 1917, with its last F.E.2s in April 1917. 23 Squadron flew its SPADs both on offensive fighter...
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    other outclassed types such as the Nieuport 17 and Sopwith Pup. Only the SPAD S.VII and Sopwith Triplane could compete on more or less equal terms with the...
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  • led by Louis Béchereau who had designed biplane fighters for SPAD including the SPAD S.VII. The C.I was a two-bay single-seat fighter biplane powered by...
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    The Blériot-SPAD S.46 was a small French airliner of the 1920s, developed from the Blériot-SPAD S.33. Like its predecessor, it was a conventional biplane...
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  • The SPAD S.XXIV was a prototype fighter plane built by SPAD at the end of World War I. The S.XXIV was a single-seat biplane fighter of all-wood construction...
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    innovative Hispano-Suiza V8 aero engine for use in such scouts as the SPAD S.VII, S.E.5a and Sopwith Dolphin. However, Brasier engines were of such poor...
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    (Junkers Ju 52) Avro Anson Avro Lancaster Mk.VII Beechcraft SNB-5/JRB-4 Blanchard Brd.1 HB3 Blériot-SPAD S.42 Bloch MB.151 C1 Borel-Odier T BO-2 Breguet...
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    a Fokker Dr.I and Fokker E.III Eindecker, and authentic examples of a SPAD S.VII.c.1 and Nieuport 28. Among the many displays is a model of the synchronization...
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  • then posted to No. 23 Squadron RFC based at Baizieux, France, to fly the SPAD S.VII single-seat fighter, gaining his first aerial victory on 30 April. Further...
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    chief designer at Spad, criticizing the Spad VII as inferior to the German Halberstadt that was its contemporary. As a consequence, Spad developed two new...
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  • The Bleriot-SPAD S.32 was a record-breaking aircraft built by SPAD in the early 1920s. The S.32 was a biplane with a monocoque fuselage of wood and canvas...
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    encountered 11 S.E.5s from the "elite" No. 56 Squadron RFC, including the top English ace of the time, Captain Albert Ball, as well as a SPAD S.VII from No....
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  • became the first Portuguese pilot to be killed in an air combat when his SPAD S.VII was shot down after himself having shot down two German planes. In Mozambique...
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    The SPAD XIV was a French biplane floatplane fighter aircraft built by Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD) and flown by the French Navy during...
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