The aeronautical firm of the brothers Maurice and Henri Farman in Bilancourt, the Department of the Seine, was one of the oldest in France. It was founded in 1908, from the very beginning the company produced aircraft designed by its creators. The brothers worked both together and independently, respectively, the aircraft were assigned the designation MF, HF and F. the machines Created by the company were characteristic shelves with a pushing screw. Before the war, the aircraft "Farman" were widespread in France and Europe. With the beginning of the First World war, the aircraft "Farman" began to be used in the army: usually as reconnaissance vehicles, and sometimes as bombers, which contributed to the good load capacity of aircraft.
Plane Farman MF.11 "Shorthorn" was developed and released in ...
[ Read more ] The aeronautical firm of the brothers Maurice and Henri Farman in Bilancourt, the Department of the Seine, was one of the oldest in France. It was founded in 1908, from the very beginning the company produced aircraft designed by its creators. The brothers worked both together and independently, respectively, the aircraft were assigned the designation MF, HF and F. the machines Created by the company were characteristic shelves with a pushing screw. Before the war, the aircraft "Farman" were widespread in France and Europe. With the beginning of the First World war, the aircraft "Farman" began to be used in the army: usually as reconnaissance vehicles, and sometimes as bombers, which contributed to the good load capacity of aircraft.
Plane Farman MF.11 "Shorthorn" was developed and released in early 1914, he became a further development of the aircraft the Farman MF.7 "Longhorn". It was released about 12 versions of the plane: scouts Farman MF.11A-2, Farman MF bombers.11B-2, armored Farman MF.11BO, artcollections, fighters with rockets and spotlights Farman MF.11P, Farman MF seaplanes.11N etc. Later modifications were called Farman MF.11bis BO in the variant of long-range, short-range and night bomber
Plane Farman MF.11 was a double single-engine biplane of mixed design. The aircraft had a mixed design with a predominance of metal. Fuselage wooden gondola, aluminum sheathing sheet, plywood or matter, depending on the modification. The fuselage itself was formed by a frame of steel pipes with wooden spacers. From Farman MF.11 pipes were parallel to the tail. The frame of the fuselage was strengthened with a wire stretch marks. Wings dvuhkonturniy, wood, slim profile, without exaltation, rectangular, the same width, covered with cloth. From Farman MF.11 the ailerons were on both wings. Chassis in the form of a wheeled cart. The wheels are equipped with anti-skid runners. On various modifications varied and the location of the pilot’s seat-front or rear. Respectively mounted and the pipe with external levers drive control wire rope elevators.
The aircraft was initially put on the engine "DeDion-Bouton 12B" with a capacity of 58 kW, then " Renault 8B "of the same power and, finally," Renault 8C " with a capacity of 95 kW. It was an 8-cylinder V-shaped air-cooled engine. The screw pushing, wooden, two-bladed.
Standard aircraft did not have machine-gun weapons. In combat units, aircraft were sometimes armed with machine guns on the rack or turrets. The military variants of the Farman M. F. 11 carried an improvised reservation in front of the gondola. Small arms-machine gun "Lewis" or "Vickers" with store food. The special suspension system of aircraft bombs had not. Bombs (up to 100 kg) were inside the gondola and dropped manually.
Aircraft Farman MF.11 the first of the series was not painted. Later, the color of the top and side surfaces of the protective; and subsequently, lower surfaces - light blue color.
Many squadrons on the Western front and 26 squadrons in Africa, as well as most air schools, were equipped with this type of aircraft. Aircraft Farman MF.11 used on all fronts of the First World war. In Russia, these planes were not made, but came from France. In Italy, we created a local version of Farman MF.11-SP.2. Of the collected, 337 aircraft of all modifications 110 received the British, who used them in France, the middle East, as well as parts of air defense aviation and flight schools. The front of the aircraft the Farman MF.11 took off only in mid-1917, which testifies to a sufficiently high fighting qualities of the machines. |
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