Farman H.F.30

The Farman H.F.30 was derived from the Farman H.F.27. Some sat the pilot in the front seat and had a more streamlined nacelle, with a machine gun on a tubular beam above the pilot's head. Others put the observer forward in a blunt nosed nacelle with a more conventional machine gun on a rotating bracket. While never adopted by the Aviation Militaire, around four hundred were built in Russia by Dux, making it one of the most numerous and important Russian aircraft. After the war it served in the Russian Civil War and they were not struck from the rolls until the late 1920's.

Russia also built the 30bis, with the 160hp Salmson engine and long twin exhaust pipes to carry fumes above the top wing.

Card Links

 * Soviet WPAF
 * Russian
 * Don Cossack AF
 * Ukraine AF

1:144 Scale

 * Shapeways: Kampfflieger