The Farman F.270 was a prototype French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 bomber/torpedo-bomber designed and built by the Farman Aviation Works for the French Air Force

French Air Force

The French Air Force , literally Army of the Air) is the air force of the French Armed Forces. It was formed in 1909 as the Service Aéronautique, a service arm of the French Army, then was made an independent military arm in 1933...

.

Development

The F.270 of 1933 was a development of the earlier F.60

Farman F.60 Goliath

The Farman F.60 Goliath was an airliner produced by the Farman Aviation Works from 1919. It was instrumental in the creation of early airlines and commercial routes in Europe after World War I.-Design and development:...

 and F.150

Farman F.150

The Farman F.150 Marin was a 1920s French biplane designed by Farman as a day bomber for the French Navy.-Development:The F.150 Marin was a twin-engined unequal-span biplane in the B.3 category for French Navy. The Marin could be fitted with a float or fixed landing gear...

 series it was a mixed wood and metal sesquiplane with a single vertical tail unit. Powered by two Gnome-Rhône 14Kbr radial engines mounted above the lower wing. It had a wide-track tailskid landing gear

Conventional landing gear

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 and three machine-gun positions, one in the balcony type nose, one amidships and one in a ventral position that fired though a trap door in the floor.

In 1934 an improved variant was produced, the Farman F.271, with engine power boosted to 800 hp (597 kW) additional nose glazing for the bomb/torpedo aimer, and larger navigators station, and the ventral trap door replaced with a retractable bathtub gondola. Neither type entered production but the F.271 was later tested on floats.

Variants

F.270

Prototype with Gnome-Rhône 14Kbr radial engines.

F.271

Improved design with 800hp (597kW) Gnome-Rhône 14K radial engines, also tested as a float-plane.

Specifications (F.271)

See also