Farman HF.30

The Henry Farman HF.30 was a French two-seat pusher biplane designed around 1915 that became a principal aircraft of the Imperial Russian Air Service in the First World War. It was one of the last variants of the Farman type, with the crew in an open nacelle in front of the wings and a wire-braced framework carrying the tail, and it was the first Farman to use a simple v-strut undercarriage. A 150 horsepower Salmson 9 radial cured the underpowering of the earlier HF.20. Over 400 were built at the Dux factory in Moscow alone, it flew on reconnaissance and probably on bombing raids, and both sides used it in the Russian Civil War. A few were acquired by Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Finland and Estonia, and some flew in Soviet civil aviation until the end of the 1920s.