Farman F.380

The Farman F.380 was a French single-seat racing monoplane designed and built by Farman Aviation Works for air racing. It was a low-wing monoplane that first flew in 1933, similar to but smaller than the contemporary F.370, and it was powered by a 155 horsepower Renault Bengali inverted inline piston engine of 116 kilowatts. Like the F.370 it had streamlined features including a shallow fin faired into the headrest of the open cockpit, but its single main wheel could be retracted and extended by hand. It was entered in the 1933 Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe air race, where the landing gear collapsed at the start. Before the race it had broken the class world speed record at 303.387 kilometres per hour over a 200 kilometre course.