Farman F.30

The Farman F.30A C2 was a French two-seat fighter biplane of 1916 powered by a single water-cooled radial engine. It departed from the pusher layout with which Farman had been associated, adopting a front-mounted propeller and a continuous streamlined fuselage, and it first flew in December 1916. It was a metal-framed biplane with a considerable overhang of the upper planes, and the pilot and gunner sat in two cockpits with a large radiator between them. Official evaluation by the Service Technique de l'Aeronautique in 1917 found the handling poor and the radiator position disliked. Farman modified it twice, as the F.30B with a 260 horsepower Salmson engine and then as the F.30B AR2 reconnaissance version with a longer upper wing, but lack of stability ended development in 1918, and only one aircraft was built.