Farman MF.11 Shorthorn

The Maurice Farman MF.11 Shorthorn was a French unequal-span pusher biplane developed before the First World War by the Farman Aviation Works. It used the same layout as the earlier MF.7 but lacked its forward elevator, carried a single tail surface with a pair of rudders above it, and mounted the nacelle with crew and engine in the gap between the wings, with the observer moved to the front seat so that a machine gun had a clear field of fire. It served as a reconnaissance aircraft and light bomber with the British and French air services early in the war, and an MF.11 of the Royal Naval Air Service flew the first bombing raid of the war on 21 December 1914. It was then used as a trainer, known to British pilots as the Rumpty, and was also licence-built in Italy as the SIA 5.