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There is a designation typo. Actually this is Jean Péraud's one-off Farman 356 (F-AMCX, n° 1/7347) which arrived in Saigon on 01 August 1934. A flight of 151 hours secured the Coupe du Président de la République (President of the Republic's Cup aka the «Paris-Saïgon») for Péraud.
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From TU 202;
Farman X:
during the Occupation, Henry Farman realesed a small two-seater twin-engine tourism with tractor engines,40 hp,installed in tandem above the wing. The aircraft had a small lower plane, separated from the fuselage by 4 masts and which carried a each wheel one of its ends. Pilot and passenger were positioned at the far forward end of the fuselage. The plane made a few flights at the hands of its manufacturer and disappeared in the turmoil.
Does anyone hear about it before ?.
Farman X:
during the Occupation, Henry Farman realesed a small two-seater twin-engine tourism with tractor engines,40 hp,installed in tandem above the wing. The aircraft had a small lower plane, separated from the fuselage by 4 masts and which carried a each wheel one of its ends. Pilot and passenger were positioned at the far forward end of the fuselage. The plane made a few flights at the hands of its manufacturer and disappeared in the turmoil.
Does anyone hear about it before ?.
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The image shared by hesham contains more than one typo. It also gives "1924" as the year in the title, instead of 1934... and the photo is NOT of the single-seat, open-cockpit aircraft used for the Paris-Saigon flight, but of the same aircraft [F-AMCX] when it was still a tandem-seating enclosed cockpit aircraft. Even the web page you linked, which is dedicated to that event, couldn't provide anything else than the same erroneous photo... I'm attaching three photos of Péraud's modified F 356 airplane, christened "Cité d'Angoulème II":
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The single-engined bomber often refered to by just its Army suffix "B.2" was actually designated the F 120. Two examples were built, one as a day bomber, the second one in sanitary evacuation configuration. Both used a single 370 hp Lorraine 12 Da engine.And yes, if you think the "120" designation rings a bell, it's because it was subsequently reused for the Jabiru transport, as the F 120 T.
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I found excellent picture of the Spanish Farman "Goliath" (probably M-MMCAB).
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Translation from the source:
Multy-engined Farman F.60 Goliath, the first chemical bomber of the Spanish Air Force. The first example was acquired in 1923, the year in which the Melilla gas factory came into operation. It was capable of dropping 4 or 6 bombs of 100 kilos of Yperite gas. Chemical bombing raids over northern Morocco continued until July 1925.
Seems, that this illustration is used for the cover of book
Farman F.50 & F.60, Alas Sobre Espana No 10
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Translation from the source:
Multy-engined Farman F.60 Goliath, the first chemical bomber of the Spanish Air Force. The first example was acquired in 1923, the year in which the Melilla gas factory came into operation. It was capable of dropping 4 or 6 bombs of 100 kilos of Yperite gas. Chemical bombing raids over northern Morocco continued until July 1925.
Seems, that this illustration is used for the cover of book
Farman F.50 & F.60, Alas Sobre Espana No 10
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Why "...CHEMICAL bomber..."? The first plane bomber with gasoline engines?
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I would imagine that its payload would have been poison gas.
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Spain armed forces actively used chemical weapons in the "Rif War" in Morocco
Spanish use of chemical weapons in the Rif War - Wikipedia
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As Italy in the war against Ethiopia in 1936, around 15 years later.Spain armed forces actively used chemical weapons in the "Rif War" in Morocco
Spanish use of chemical weapons in the Rif War - Wikipedia
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