Farman F.1000

The Farman F.1000 was a French monoplane of the 1930s designed by Farman to break the world altitude record. It was a high-wing strut-braced monoplane with a large wing area, a conventional fixed undercarriage and a 350 horsepower Farman 8Vi engine, and it first flew on 25 June 1932 with Lucien Coupet at the controls. The pilot's view on take-off and landing was poor, so a raised seat was added and the cabin was pressurised for the climb. In tests it reached only 5,000 metres, so Farman redesigned it as the F.1001 with a parasol wing, which was lost in a fatal 1935 record attempt when a cupola window failed, before a later F.1002 appeared.