The Scrapbooks of Willis B. Haviland

An Earlybird's Scrapbook

The Lafayette Escadrille

Book One, Page Four, Right

Top & Bottom - Nieuport 15 metre trainer.
"15 metre" referred to the wing surface, although in actuality the surface was nearer 18 square metres. These trainers were Type 81 or 183, the difference being in slant of the interplane "V" struts. W.B. Haviland is posing with the aircraft in both pictures.


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Lafayette
Escadrille 		Porto
Corsini 		Airplanes
Off Ships 		Stateside
Action 		The Roma
Catastrophe 		Earlybird
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