Louis Paulhan in his Farman III at the Dominguez Field, Los Angeles 1910
Role
Pusher biplane
Type of aircraft
National origin
France
Manufacturer
Farman
Designer
Henry Farman
First flight
April 1909
Farman Biplane, ca. 1909
The Farman III, also known as the Henry Farman 1909 biplane, was an early French aircraft designed and built by Henry Farman[1][2] in 1909. Its design was widely imitated, so much so that aircraft of similar layout were generally referred to as being of the "Farman" type.
^Monash University: Hargrave Histories – Henry Farman History and photos
^Henry Farman's "No.3" BiplaneFlight, 24 April 1909, p. 235.
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Western Europe. On December 19, 1909, Captain Yoshitoshi Tokugawa in a FarmanIII conducted the first successful powered flight on Japanese soil at Yoyogi...
Glenn Curtiss the same year, with the AEA June Bug. Henry Farman's ailerons on his 1909 FarmanIII were the first to resemble ailerons on modern aircraft...
Voisin-Farman I (1907), and the Curtiss Model D used by Eugene Ely for the first ship landing on January 18, 1911. Henri Farman's pusher FarmanIII and its...
and manufacturer Gabriel Voisin. It was used by the French aviator Henri Farman to make the first heavier-than-air flight lasting more than a minute in...
on January 7, 1909. First aircraft to fly with a rotary engine: was a FarmanIII biplane, in April 1909. First ditching of an airplane: was made by Hubert...
Bristol Aeroplane Company). A pusher biplane based on the successful FarmanIII, it was one of the first aircraft types to be built in quantity. As the...
Sommer. It was a pusher configuration biplane resembling the successful FarmanIII, and was built in large numbers for the time. One was owned by Charles...
Grande Semaine d'Aviation in Rheims where he crashed. In Lyon, flying a FarmanIII, he broke three records: height (920 m), speed (20 km in 19 minutes) and...
his own aircraft manufacturing business. His first design, the FarmanIII (the Farman I and II were Voisin designs that he owned) was one of the most...
frost." Grahame-White arrived at about 4:30 am and began to prepare his FarmanIII biplane. The aeroplane was brought into the field from the yard it was...
On orders of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, he purchased a FarmanIII biplane, which he shipped back to Japan. On 19 December 1910, Tokugawa...
first rotary engine to be produced in quantity. In 1909 a Gnome powered FarmanIII aircraft won the prize for the greatest non-stop distance flown at the...
second Farman-style aircraft had ailerons on the upper wing and became the Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.1. The Bristol Boxkite, a copy of the FarmanIII, was...
1910. In Venice on 19 February 1911, Cagno made six flights in his 50 hp FarmanIII from the beach at the Lido di Venezia despite the fog. The plane had been...
flight instructor and director of the school René Guillemin crashed a FarmanIII biplane from a height of 40 metres (130 ft) during a demonstration flight...
aircraft construction business, whose first product was the influential FarmanIII biplane. The following year saw the widespread recognition of powered...
record; carrying a passenger almost 110 miles (177 kilometers) in his FarmanIII biplane in 1 hour, 49 minutes. New altitude mark of approximately 4,164...
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