| NiD 50 HB.4 | |
|---|---|
| Role | |
| Number built | 1 partially completed |
The Nieuport-Delage NiD 50 HB.4 was a twin-engined bomber / reconnaissance floatplane, designed in the latter half of the 1920s, to the 1928 HB.4 specification from the Service Technique de l'Aéronautique (STAé), for a four-seat seaplane bomber. Development was cancelled before the first prototype was completed.
The Service technique de l'aéronautique (STAé) was a French state body responsible for coordinating technical aspects of aviation in France. Formed in 1916 as the Section technique de l'aéronautique the STAé continued until 1980 when its functions were distributed among other French governmental bodies, including the Service technique des programmes aéronautiques (STPA), Service technique des télécommunications et des équipements aéronautiques (STPA) and the Service central de la production, des prix et de la maintenance (SCPM).
Issued in January 1928, the STAé published an offshore torpedo bomber seaplane HB.4 specification. Nieuport-Astra responded and exhibited the partially complete NiD 50 HB.4 at the 1928 Paris Aero Salon. The aircraft was a large monoplane skinned entirely with light alloy sheet supported on two 10.60 m (34.8 ft) long all-metal floats and powered by two 310 kW (420 hp) Gnome & Rhône 9A Jupiter radial engines. [1]
The 4 crew members were to have consisted of a gunner in the nose, pilot, navigator and gunner in the rear fuselage. [2]
Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1928 [2]
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