Farman HF.16

The Farman HF.16 was a French reconnaissance aircraft built shortly before the First World War, with a crew of two. Aircraft of this type were also produced under licence in the Russian Empire and served with the Imperial Russian Air Service during the war. The specification gives a length of 8.1 metres, a wingspan of 13.75 metres, a height of 3.15 metres, a wing area of 35 square metres, an empty weight of 250 kilograms and a maximum take-off weight of 660 kilograms. A single Gnome Delta nine-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine of 75 kilowatts drove a two-bladed fixed-pitch wooden pusher propeller, and the maximum speed was 105 kilometres per hour.