Farman HF.14

The Farman HF.14 was a French two-seat reconnaissance biplane produced by Farman Aviation Works before the First World War. Designed by Henri Farman and built at the Boulogne-Billancourt factory, it improved on the HF.6 with an unstaggered two-bay sesquiplane wing, a fuselage of wood and steel, large interconnected ailerons on the upper wing only, and the triangular tail support that Farman reused in many later designs. A seven-cylinder air-cooled Gnome Lambda rotary of 80 horsepower drove a pusher propeller, and part of the upper wing was cut away to give the propeller clearance. It could be fitted with floats, and it flew privately as a racing aircraft before serving the military as a trainer. In November 1913 the French aviator Maurice Chevillard became the first to loop a biplane in an HF.14.