Henri Farman HF.36

The Henri Farman HF.36, sometimes called simply the Farman F.36, was a prototype French fighter built by Farman during the First World War. It was an unusual design, especially for Farman, a firm that had mostly produced pusher aircraft: a two-bay unstaggered sesquiplane with a tractor propeller, seating the pilot and gunner in tandem open cockpits. In an era of wood and fabric it was of metal construction, with a quadricycle main undercarriage and a fuselage suspended from the upper wing with the lower wing braced beneath it. A Renault 12Fa twelve-cylinder V engine of 160 kilowatts powered it to 175 kilometres per hour. The first flight was in July 1916, but serious problems were found, and development was abandoned with only one prototype built.