Мировая Авиация 127

Самолет получил прозвище "Longhorn" за характерную ферменную конструкцию, шедшую от основных опор шасси и поддерживавшую стабилизатор, вынесенный далеко вперед.
THE MAURICE FARM AN "LONGHORN": The front elevator was held to give the pilot a very useful datum line from which to judge the attitude of his machine.
The 80 h.p. Farman Longhorn on which so many of the early pilots had what present day training manuals call "first air experience."

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / R.Niccoli - Atlantic Sentinels

The Maurice Farman model 1911/1912 was acquired through public subscription promoted by the newspaper ‘O Comercio do Porto’, and was the first Portuguese military aircraft.

Aeroplane Monthly 1998-10 / R.Riding - A Broad experience (1)

Broad’s first solo with the RNAS was made from Eastchurch on June 8, 1916, in Maurice Farman S.7 Longhorn 3005. Seen here is sister aircraft 3006 from RNAS Chingford.

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

Paul Verrier in his 70 h.p. Maurice Farman Longhorn at Shoreham.

Flight 1930-01 / Flight

The famous Maurice Farman "Longhorn" with Grahame White in the nacelle and Louis Noel standing by the wing.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-09 / D.Lang - All-Weather Mac /Masters of the air/ (1)

A Maurice Farman Longhorn, the aeroplane in which Mac learned to fly in 1917, after transferring from the Army to the Royal Flying Corps.

История Авиации 2002-05 / С.Корж - Коммерческая авиация /Ретроспектива/ (4)

Flight 1935-05 / Flight

LOOKING BACK: A typical Saturday afternoon scene at Hendon in 1914. Pierre Verrier is seen trying to touch with his wing tip the tin discs on top of No. 1 pylon. Another attempt succeeded. Standing on the ground is a Grahame-White "box kite"; Note the drooping ailerons.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Grahame-White biplane / School 'bus - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1912

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-06 / Farewell Hendon again

More racing at Hendon, in August 1912

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Morane-Saulnier Type G/H - ФранцияFrance - 1912

Flight 1930-01 / Flight

A close finish to one of the handicap races round the pylons between P. Verrier on the Maurice Farman and Jules Nardini on the Deperdussin monoplane.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Deperdussin B/C/D/TT - ФранцияFrance - 1911

Aviation Historian 7 / P.Jarrett - Lost & Found

Here is another puzzle. I recently acquired the nice view of an airfield photographed from a Maurice Farman Longhorn biplane, probably about 1914. I do not know whether it was in the UK or Europe, but as it is printed on a British postcard I suspect it was in the UK. Can anyone pinpoint the location?

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-07 / H.Woodman - The origins of aerial bombardment (8)

One of the rare aviation photographs from the Balkan wars: Maurice Farman type VII (80 h.p. Renault) which, according to the original caption, shows an Epirus Aviation Section machine landing after a raid on Bizani in January 1913.

Aviation Historian 8 / F.Merriam - "Better to be Born Lucky than Rich..." /Echoes from Dawn Skies/ (3)

Frederick Warren Merriam comes in to land at Hendon in a Maurice Farman Longhorn. Merriam was the chief instructor of the Bristol Flying School at Brooklands until he was appointed civilian instructor to the Naval Flying School at Hendon in September 1914, despite having volunteered for active service when war broke out.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1988-03

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: N5742   [2]

N5749 was a Maurice Farman S.7 built by Brush Coachwork but how it got on to the roof of this hangar at a Royal Naval Air Service airfield is not revealed.
Dick also comments on the photograph of N5742 atop of a Bessoneau hangar. All is not as it seems. The crew are not trying to rescue it, they have just hoisted it up there. Their reason for this bizarre act is that the aircraft is about to do something which is now standard practice in the Royal Navy, launch it off a ski-jump! They are engaged in the first trials of this device but the result of these is unknown.
The photograph of N5749 perched on a hangar in AM.3/88 has resulted in some more sleuthing, this time by Jack Meaden. Another view of this aircraft appeared in "Aeroplane Monthly" for May 1988 and from this it can be seen that the lower booms were smashed by the hangar ridge pole and the wheels and undercarriage legs have either broken off or have gone through the canvas.
The evidence points to the aircraft having stalled on to the hangar roof and not to the theory that this was part of a ski-jump experiment as suggested in Feedback in AM.1/89. More information is required on this subject since the ski-jump idea would have presumably required the aircraft to be faced into the prevailing wind as on a ship. Contemporary seaplane carriers were fitted with level flying-off decks but Campania had a four-degree slope and others were given a similar slope during refit.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-05 / T.Gordon - First solo

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: N5742   [2]

What nearly - but not quite - happened on his first solo: a Longhorn, in this case N5742, perches neatly atop a Bessoneau canvas hangar.

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

Scene at Shoreham in July 1914, at the first meeting of the season. Lined up are a Maurice Farman Longhorn, the Hall Avro 500 and a Farman.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Avro Type E / 500 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1912Farman Farman-IV - ФранцияFrance - 1910

Flight 1931-06 / Flight

THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS, MILITARY WING, 1914: THIS PICTURE RECALL THE PRE-WAR DAYS OF THE R.F.C. AND SHOW SOME OF THE MAURICE FARMANS OF "B" FLIGHT AT THE CENTRAL FLYING SCHOOL, UPAVON.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-05 / T.Gordon - First solo

More training Longhorns, this time in the shed of B Flight at CFS Upavon in 1914.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-03 / A.Curtis - Memoirs of an early bird (1)

A captured Maurice Farman Longhorn.

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

A Farman seaplane at Shoreham.

Aviation Historian 10 / F.Merriam - Birds of a Feather /Echoes from Dawn Skies/ (5)

John W. Alcock in a Maurice Farman in 1914.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-05 / T.Gordon - First solo

This illustration from Flight’s July 6, 1912 issue clearly shows the Longhorn’s handgrip, and a cockpit refreshingly uncluttered by instruments.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-05 / T.Gordon - First solo

Maurice Farman Longhorn 5756 after a slight mishap. The dark diagonal band on the right of the picture is the aircraft's foreplane.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-05 / T.Gordon - First solo

Another view of 5756’s prang: one handle of the “spectacles” control grip, mentioned in the text, may be seen protruding from the nacelle.

Flight 1935-08 / Flight

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-05 / T.Gordon - First solo

An early Flight scale drawing of the Longhorn. The photographs show a slightly later variant, with an improved nacelle and other detail modifications.