Farman F.40

The Farman F.40, popularly called the Horace Farman, was a French pusher biplane reconnaissance aircraft, also used as a light bomber early in the First World War and later as a trainer. It was developed from a mix of the Maurice Farman MF.11 and the Henry Farman HF.22, with a smoother crew nacelle and an open tail boom truss carrying a tailplane and a curved fin, and it went into production in 1915. Forty French escadrilles flew it for just over a year before it was replaced in early 1917. The Royal Naval Air Service, Belgian and Russian forces used it too, a Portuguese squadron flew it in Mozambique in the East African campaign, and Romania bought 120. The F.40 came in many variants, including floatplane trainers and a version adapted to fire Le Prieur rockets.