Farman BN.4

The Farman BN.4, sometimes called the Super Goliath, was a very large French four-seat long-range night bomber biplane of the 1920s, its designation standing for Bombardement de Nuit Strategique, 4 places. The company showed it at the 1921 Paris Salon de l'Aeronautique. It was a four-engined three-bay biplane with four Lorraine V-12 water-cooled piston engines of 276 kilowatts each mounted in tandem pairs on the lower wing, a biplane tail unit and twin-wheel main undercarriage units, with a gunner provided for in the nose and amidships. Twin nose wheels were added to stop it nosing over on soft grass airfields. After test flights the military had lost interest in buying new equipment in the post-war years, a civil version would have been too large, and the BN.4 was not ordered into production.