Farman HF.7

The Farman HF.7 was a French two-seat reconnaissance aircraft built shortly before the First World War, with a crew of a pilot and an observer. The type is documented only by its specification, which gives a length of 8.7 metres, a wingspan of 12.05 metres, a height of 3.1 metres, a wing area of 28 square metres, an empty weight of 370 kilograms and a maximum take-off weight of 560 kilograms. It was powered by a single Gnome seven-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine of 37 kilowatts driving a two-bladed fixed-pitch wooden pusher propeller, and its maximum speed was 90 kilometres per hour. Its wing loading is given as 20 kilograms per square metre, lower than the 26.1 given for the similar HF.6.