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.
Development
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
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. The aircraft was a large monoplane skinned entirely with light alloy sheet supported on two long all-metal floats and powered by two
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radial engines.
The 4 crew members were to have consisted of a gunner in the nose, pilot, navigator and gunner in the rear fuselage.
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Specifications (NiD-50 HB.4)
References
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1920s French aircraft