Dave F, e-mail, 29.05.2023 19:35 This must have been a horrible plane to taxi and land with. The huge radial and the massive wing blocking your forward view. There is no looking over the nose on this beast. With the gear down, yet another part of your forward view would be blocked.

Mike West, e-mail, 12.02.2012 23:13 I find the NS series delightful, but when you see just how little extra lift is generated by the biplane configuration, you wonder why he bothered. Fundamentally, the biplane configuration provides much more structural benefit than lift, so it's no surprise that the NS series was a dead end.

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