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| | No. 1588: Nieuport 17 |
 | | The Nieuport 17 appeared a year later, and, for a while, it seemed to have leveled the playing field. |
 | | By 1917 it was doing such damage to the Allies that the French, in desperation, tried to build a three-winged version of the Nieuport 17. |
 | | But the early design that may've come closest to the final form was that neat Nieuport 17, the airplane my father never had to ride into combat. |
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