Farman Sport

The Farman Sport, maker's designation FF 65, was a French single-engined light biplane with tandem seats for sport and touring. It first flew in 1919 as the prototype David, named to contrast it with the large Goliath airliner of the same firm, and the production version was first shown in Brussels in September 1921 with an 80 horsepower Anzani radial. It was a single-bay staggered biplane of equal span with a plywood-skinned fuselage and two low seats set so close that the passenger's feet surrounded the pilot. Thirty-four were built and several were exported, about ten of them to the United States through an agency in Kansas City, and one is on display in the National Air and Space Museum. Odd variants included a biplane glider for the 1922 French gliding meeting and a low-aspect parasol machine nicknamed the Flying Postcard.