Farman F.200 (1923)

The Farman F.200 of 1923 was an unsuccessful French two-seat touring monoplane with a low, thick, cantilever wing, which shared its type name with the 1929 Farman F.200, the progenitor of a series of parasol-wing tourers. Only one was built and it was tested only briefly. It was Farman's first attempt at an internally braced cantilever monoplane, built of wood, with a wing about 600 millimetres deep at the root and a broad root chord of 3.75 metres. A water-cooled Hispano-Suiza 8Ab V-8 of 130 kilowatts sat above the wing leading edge, and the enclosed cabin held two seats in tandem. It was shown unflown on the Farman stand at the 1922 Paris Salon. Accounts of its testing conflict, one giving a maximum speed of 200 kilometres per hour and a later one finding it uncontrollable.