Farman F.70

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Farman F.70
Farman F.70 L'Aeronautique December,1922.jpg
RolePassenger/Mail transport
Manufacturer Farman Aviation Works
First flight 1920
Primary userLignes Farman
Number built20

The Farman F.70 was a 1920s French passenger and mail transport aircraft designed and built by the Farman Aviation Works. It was a smaller counterpart to the company's popular F.60 Goliath. The F.70 was an unequal-span two-bay biplane with a wooden fuselage and was powered by a Renault 12Fe piston engine. The pilot was seated in an open cockpit behind the nose-mounted engine. Behind the open cockpit was a cabin for four passengers [1] [2] [3] or freight.

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The aircraft could be fitted with a Gnome-Rhône Jupiter 9Aa radial engine and was then designated the Farman F.73. An experimental three-seat bomber variant was built but did not go into production.

Several aircraft of this series entered service with French airlines in the 1920s. The main operator was Farman's own airline Lignes Farman who operated five aircraft between Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels. Lignes Aeriennes Latécoère used the aircraft to operate passenger and mail routes between Casablanca and Dakar and also from Algiers to Biskra. Other operators used the aircraft on French internal routes. The Polish operator Aero acquired five F.70s in 1925.

Variants

F.70
Main production variant powered by a 300hp (224kW) Renault 12Fe V-12 piston engine.
F.73
Variant re-engined with a 380hp (282kW) Gnome et Rhône 9Aa Jupiter radial piston engine.

Operators

Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Flag of France.svg  France
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela

Specifications (F.70)

Farman F.70 3-view drawing from Les Ailes October 27,1921 Farman F.70 3-view Les Ailes October 27,1921.png
Farman F.70 3-view drawing from Les Ailes October 27,1921

Data from The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 1739

General characteristics

Performance

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References

  1. 1 2 Parmentier, Bruno. "Farman F-70". Aviafrance. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 "La Limousine Farman 70". Les Ailes. 1 (19): 2–3. 27 October 1921. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Répertoire Commercial de l'Industrie Aéronautique Française". L'Aéronautique. 4 (43): 15 (of subsection). December 1922. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
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