The first of a two-part lecture series will focus on the lineage of pre-war Nieuport monoplanes and the history of the company founded by a genius engineer, Edouard Deniéport, who barely lived to see the success of his creations in the skies of Europe. This lecture includes rare original film footage.

David Méchin has been an aviation historian for two decades, writing many articles in the French historical press, some translated for the Cross and Cockade magazine. He recently wrote an encyclopaedia on WW1 French aces published by Aeronauts Press.