Farman F.270

The Farman F.270 was a prototype French bomber and torpedo bomber designed and built by Farman Aviation Works for the French Air Force. The F.270 of 1933 was a development of the earlier F.60 and F.150 series, a mixed wood and metal sesquiplane with a single vertical tail unit and two Gnome-Rhone 14Kbr radial engines mounted above the lower wing. It had a wide-track tailskid undercarriage and three machine-gun positions, in a balcony-type nose, amidships and in a ventral position firing through a trap door in the floor. In 1934 an improved variant, the F.271, raised engine power to 800 horsepower, added nose glazing for the bomb and torpedo aimer, a larger navigator station and a retractable gondola in place of the trap door, and it was later tested on floats. Neither type entered production.