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Nieuport 10
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Manufacturer: S.A.E. Nieuport / Macchi
Type: Two-seater biplane
In ruolo dal: 1915
Engine: Gnome, 80 hp
Wing Span: 8.20 m
Length: 7.10 m
Height: 2.45 m
Empty weight: 409 kg
Takeoff weight: 658 kg
Maximum speed: 140 km/h
Ceiling: 4570 m
Range: 2 ½ h
Crew: 2
Weaponry: 1 Lewis |
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The Nieuport projected by Gustave Delage, manager of the Societe Anonyme des Establissmentes Nieuport , should be a two-seater biplane but owing to its light structure it couldn’t bear two persons during the acrobatic flights. After being relieved of a crew member and armed with a Lewis installed on the upper wing out of the field of action of the helix it proved to be a good fighter. The N 10 in comparison with the Fokker E.III Eindecker was competitive but only if used as a single-seater airplane.
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The observer machine-gunner was replaced by a more operative machine gun installed on the upper wing.
In this way the machine gun shot in axis with the aircraft maintaining the helix out of the field of shot. A mere delay of the shot command allowed the pilot to shoot and contemporarily pilot the airplane. More difficult was instead the substitution of the loader.
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This was installed on a rail and therefore it could easily went down and reach the pilot who could replace the loader without having to abandon the commands (on the contrary the first machine guns installed on the upper wing forced him to get up leaving the cloche and the rudder bar). Nevertheless, during this "interval" the airplane was practically undefended and in adversary power.
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With the beginning of the Great War the Nieuport focused its attention on the development of fighter aircrafts. The nr. 10 was the first type of a long series whose most prestigious models were the Nr 17 brought to fame from Guynemer and from Nungesser and the Nr. 27 even if squadrons got it only at the end of the war. In Italy the Nieuport 10 was built on license from Macchi but it has never been employed during the fights and was soon replaced by the Nieuport 11 and 17.
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Austro-Hungarian gun 12 cm M61
on fortress mount
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Type: breech-loading gun
Model: M 61
Manufacturer: Arsenal of Vienna
Year of production: 1861
Registration number: 212-550
Calibre: 12 cm
Breech block: wedged-shaped Kolben system
Range: 5.800 m.
Barrel Weight: 1,500 Kg
Mount Weight: 810 Kg
Shell Weight: 14,6 Kg
Starting speed: a.b. 332 m/s
The 12 cm gun was projected by the Austro-Hungarian army and was employed in the first fortresses built in Trentino between 1860 and 1861. It was also employed during the First World War.
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Patriotic and military ceramics in modern Italy
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The importance of popular ceramics grew during the French Revolution; the collection, gift of Ann and Romain H. Rainero, shows the spreading of political feelings linked to the Risorgimento and nationalism in the nineteenth century Italian society.
Through these objects Italian citizens could fix the map of the battles and celebrate the great characters and heroes of the moment. Flats, glasses, cups, figurines prove a rooted habit and a capillary penetration in "private life", through images and events linked to the history of Italian Risorgimento, related to a national, historic-military geography, to a tight but tenacious pantheon of country glories.
The “figure” is not only “a text for illiterate person” but an iconographic element of the “Italians education” that during the nineteenth century found in the family – rather then in school – the most important mean of communication. The ceramics on display refers also to ancient events: the colonial wars, the international expedition to China against the Boxers, and the conquest of Libia were important themes of this production that stopped at the conclusion of the First World War as soon as the technical means of photograph and movie marked the end of its popularity.
Nowadays the collections of these documents are extremely rare and the collection on display at the War Museum represents a unique opportunity to get to know this production.
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"Air Topography"
Yervant Gianikian e Angela Ricci Lucchi
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The new exhibition displays a rare Nieuport 10 airplane and vintage films images reworked by directors Gianikian Yervant and Angela Ricci Lucchi. For few minutes visitors can follow the aviator’s look that for the first time experienced the vision of the earth from the sky.
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The movie is supported by texts written by the directors and by Francesco Baracca’s letters.
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Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi are also the authors of a modern trilogy coproduced with the War Museum of Rovereto. The films “Prisoners of War” “Peace on all peaks” and “Oh men” shows prisoner’s experience, the genocide, the mass deportation of civilians, the war in the mountains, soldiers and civilian’s trip back home among ruins and war destructions
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