Farman F.180

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name=F.180 Oiseau Bleu


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type=Biplane airliner
manufacturer=Farman
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first flight=1920s
introduced=1928
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primary user=Farman Line
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number built=3
variants with their own articles=The Farman F.180 Oiseau Bleu (en: Bluebird) was a 1920s French biplane airliner. The F.180 was designed to fly non-stop between Paris and New York, but when the crossing attempt was cancelled three aircraft were built as luxury transports to operate from Paris to nearby european capital cities for the company's own airline.

Development

The F.180 had an advanced (for the 1920s) oval-section fuselage with unequal-span two-bay wings. It had an enclosed cockpit for a two crew and a luxury main cabin for 24 passengers. The aircraft was powered by two Farman piston engines mounted in tandem beneath the upper wing centre section which was supported above the fuselage on two pairs of struts. One design flaw was the landing gear which had a very narrow track main gear wheels which for a heavy aircraft produced a rough ride on grass airfields. The first aircraft was delivered in 1928 followed shortly by two others which all remained in service for a number of years.

Operators

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*Farman Line

pecifications (F.180)

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crew=2 (pilot, co-pilot)
capacity=24 passengers
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height m=5.80
height ft=19
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wing area sqm=172
wing area sqft=1851.45
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empty weight kg=4500
empty weight lb=9921
gross weight kg=8000
gross weight lb=17,637
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max speed kmh=190
max speed mph=118
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range km=1000
range miles=621
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ceiling m=4000
ceiling ft=13,125
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References

* The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 1754