Aeroplane Monthly 1989-07 / Personal album. Civil

During the spring of 1914 the Eastbourne Aviation Company's 80 h.p. Gnome-powered Henry Farman seaplanes, flown by Frederick Bernard Fowler, the company's founder, made several visits to Volk’s Waterplane Station at Brighton. Seaplane joyrides had become the "fashionable amusement" at the resort, and applicants for flights were so numerous that many had to be refused because of fading light.

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-07 / Personal album. Civil

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-07 / Personal album. Civil

During the spring of 1914 the Eastbourne Aviation Company's 80 h.p. Gnome-powered Henry Farman seaplanes, flown by Frederick Bernard Fowler, the company's founder, made several visits to Volk’s Waterplane Station at Brighton. Seaplane joyrides had become the "fashionable amusement" at the resort, and applicants for flights were so numerous that many had to be refused because of fading light. F. B. Fowler is seen in front of the nacelle in the close-up shot.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-09 / D.Brown - Wings over Sussex (1)

A Farman seaplane at Shoreham.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-09 / D.Brown - Wings over Sussex (1)

Claude Grahame-White's Farman, Wake up England being beached near Brighton.

Air-Britain Archive 1986-03

The part of a postcard depicting a Farman Seaplane at Eastbourne which Keith Cruttenden would like to discover more about. There is a 1921 date stamp on the card but the scene is likely to be somewhat earlier if Keith's own research is any guide. The aircraft is similar to one shown in fig. 115 in "Flying and Ballooning" by John Fabb, dated 1912. Apart from the livery it is also similar to Claude Grahame-White's Farman "Wake Up England" which made a tour in the same year (see "Aeroplane Monthly" 9.79, page 491). According to Kenneth Munson's "Pioneer Aircraft" two aircraft made the tour but a photo elsewhere in the book shows a Farman with a different type of rear float. Anyone who can throw any light on the picture is invited to send in their suggestions - perhaps even the local newspapers would reveal when the event took place, unless of course it was a regular occurrence.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-08 / Painted Wings

Colin Ashford has taken the Farman floatplane Wake up England as the subject of this watercolour.