Farman MF.16

The Maurice Farman MF.16 was a French reconnaissance aircraft developed before the First World War by the Farman Aviation Works. It was a pusher biplane like previous Farman aircraft, with a sesquiplane layout, and it carried a crew of two. The specification gives a length of 8.06 metres, a wingspan of 13.76 metres, a wing area of 35 square metres, an empty weight of 410 kilograms and a gross weight of 650 kilograms. A single Gnome 7 Lambda seven-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine of 60 kilowatts drove a two-bladed fixed-pitch pusher propeller, giving a maximum speed of 90 kilometres per hour at sea level, a range of 220 kilometres and a service ceiling of 2,500 metres. It climbed to 500 metres in eight minutes.