Farman B.2

The Farman B.2 was a French light day bomber biplane designed and built by Farman Aviation Works in 1924, of which only one example was ever made. It was a bulky unequal-span two-bay biplane with the pilot in a cockpit ahead of the wing leading edge and the observer and gunner in a cockpit cut into the trailing edge of the wing. The aircraft was tested with different combinations of engines and radiators, and a single 276 kilowatt Lorraine-Dietrich twelve-cylinder Vee piston engine gave it a maximum speed of 185 kilometres per hour. Problems of directional stability forced changes to the fin and rudder, but even after all the modifications it did not reach the required performance, and it was not ordered into production.