From the pretty Lightning, (I dream/fear that) Farman designed the F-238B, A, C Beautning (Beaut' stands for Beauty = Beauté in French), yes!
The Model 17 iterations with fixed gear did look rather pugnacious, so I suppose some could say it was ugly :
and the proposed pursuit could be considered odd, by some:
Quote from: jcf on March 04, 2016, 01:25:39 AMand the proposed pursuit could be considered odd, by some:That looks like GeeBee air racer had a threesome with an I-153 and Westland Lysander... and the offspring is strangely alluring.
Quote from: Tophe on March 03, 2016, 01:23:28 AMFrom the pretty Lightning, (I dream/fear that) Farman designed the F-238B, A, C Beautning (Beaut' stands for Beauty = Beauté in French), yes!But if you put a rear facing engine in the center pod of C, it would truly be "une bete beauté"
Tophe, thanks - I can see the first one cruising over Tahiti in the 1930s as an airliner.