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The Farman F 400 was a 1930s French three-seat cabin high-winged monoplane which was designed and built by Farman. ==Design and development== The Farman series "400" was a revolution for its builder because it had a thin, cantilever-constructed, high wing, with round edges, which could be dismounted for better storage and transportation. The aeroplane had mixed construction. Fuselage made of steel tubes, wing had wood frame. This version, the Farman F 402, had a Lorraine 5 Pb 5-cylinder radial engine of , but the plane in the picture had it changed for a 9-cylinder radial engine Salmson of . F 402 has an unusual peculiarity, which is that the control stick hangs from the ceiling of the cockpit, and the rudder control is a vertical steering wheel. The fuel tanks, which are placed inside the wings, have a capacity of 200 liters . The landing gear structure is constructed of iron bars, which allows this plane to land "hardly" in short space. The fuselage and the wings are made of wood and covered with plywood. This aircraft served, among other countries, in Spain, during the 1936-1939 civil war, on both sides. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Farman F.400」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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