Morane Saulnier Type N

This little machine was one of the most important fighters in French service during the first part of the Great War, and has the honor of being the first aircraft that can fire inside the propeller arc. This extraordinary step in fighter design change the aerial warfare for ever because it simplified the maneuvers for aiming at enemy planes. The real solution for this problem was the "interrupter gear" developed by Anthony Fokker the brilliant dutch engineer. The first pilot to develop the concept, then by a rude method of protect the propeller with a metal against the bullets, and do the trials, with great success was Roland Garros in a Morane Saulnier type L. But Garros was shooting down inside the German lines and taken POW up to the end of the war. Garros could not destroy is plane and this new device fall in German hands. Mister Fokker perfected the idea and create the "interrupter gear" that is in use until today.

Some Morane Saulnier type N incorporated this revolutionary device but was not a successful plane due to obsolete use of wing warping and a high landing speed. Then, was destined to Russian service. 

But, this specific aircraft is extremely important to me, because was my very first project...mi father brought to me a Revell plastic kit wen I was 8 years old and was in bed due to mumps.

This model is the old TESMEC kit in 1/72 (a Belorussian company, I think)  and was presented as a plane of 1st Combat Air Group of Imperial Russian Army.