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+sailrjim There's always Rise of Flight.

+Kevin “inlandkevin” B Gliders

+Escape for MankindJust kidding! :)

+Tuan Tran WWI aircraft engines had no throttle, they ran WOT and turned the engine On and Off with the magneto to control throttling.

+Tuan Tran Yeah, no, I don't think so!

Nieuports did serve with the Italian Air Force in World War One, even though the Italians had quite capable fighters of their own including Ansaldos and I believe planes built by Fiat.

That's correct. There is anothere "interesting point". Francesco Baracca's personal insigna was a little black horse.After the war, Mr Enzo Ferrari asked to Baracca's mother the permission to use that insigna for his cars. A logo that, nowdays, is a worldwide icon.

And before that a Nieuport 17 as I recall. 

Inspite of the fact had their own terrestrial fighters such the "Ansaldo Balilla", many French planes have been adopted by Italian Air Force. Particoulary Neuport 10, 11 and 17, Spad VII and XIII. Even the French Henriot was largely used.Must remember that the Italian ace Francesco Baracca who downed 34 planes was flying a Spad VII.

I'll keep it in mind. I'm a big flight simmer and model maker, so it seems just up my alley. 

+Eric Brennan The book that I was referring to is called "The Rand-McNally Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft, 1914-1980". It was compiled by one Enzo Angelucci and it had most, not all, military aircraft in service throughout the world during that time frame. It also has several pages showing the different national symbols used on these a/c. It amazed me when I saw all the different symbols used during WWI and WWII. If you're interested, and you can find a copy, I would purchase the book and look at it. It's a very interesting book. In case you're interested, I know for a fact that Amazon has it available.

I'm not an expert, but it varies between types of aircraft, but it seems to me that for the most types of foreign built aircraft, the Italian marking mostly consisted of the Italian colors on the vertical stabilizer and on the underside of the wings, and no roundels of any sort. Some types, I've mostly, if not exclusively, seen roundels painted on Italian built machines, occasionally on non-Italian machines. Again, it's quite mixed. 

+Eric Brennan One thing that I am curious about, though, is this. Why were there no roundels painted on the wings? I'll have to find a book I used to own that had the aircraft insignia from all the countries involved in World War One. I don't remember if Italy ever just used the national colors on the vertical stabilizer.

You'll find a lot of cross over between nations in WWI. The British, Italians, French, Americans, Belgians and Russians all operated French made Nieuports and Spads. The French and Belgians flew British made Sopwiths (Strutter and pup for Belgum, Strutter and Triplane for French) as well RAF Be.2 and Re.8. The Americans used French Salmsons as well. Astro-Hungary built licenced Albatros, as well as flying German built ones. You'll find most countries in WWI used a fair number of machines built by their allies during this conflict. 

+Eric Brennan Thanks for the info. I didn't realize that any country other than the US used a/c they didn't develop during WW1. Of course, I'm not very knowledgeable about WW1 a/c compared to my knowledge of WW2 a/c.

+drivernjax The Italians made use of quite a lot of french made aircraft for their land based aircraft. Nieuport 11, 17, Spad 7 and 13, Hanriot HD.1 to name a few, along side their own Caproni, Ansaldo, etc. You should be able to find a list of types used with a little bit of googling about.