Farman BN.4

Farman BN.4
Role Long-range night bomber
National origin France
Manufacturer Farman
First flight March 1922[1]
Number built 1


The Farman BN.4, a.k.a. Super Goliath, was a very large 1920s French biplane designed by Farman as a long-range night bomber.[2]

Development

Often known by the military designation BN.4 (Bombardment de Nuit Strategique, 4 places), some sources refer to it as the Super Goliath though that name was also applied to the Farman F.141.[1] It was a four-seat long range night bomber.[2] The company exhibited the BN.4 at the 1921 Paris Salon de l'Aeronautique.[2] The BN.4 was a four-engined three-bay biplane powered by four Lorraine piston engines mounted in tandem pairs on the lower wing.[2] It had a biplane tail unit and a tailskid landing gear with twin-wheel main units.[2] It had provision for a gunner in the nose section and adminships with additional machine guns that fired downwards and to the rear.[2]

By the time the aircraft was test flown a pair of twin nose wheels had been added to stop the aircraft nosing over on soft grass airfields.[2] After the aircraft had performed a number of test flights the military had lost interest in spending on new equipment in the post-war era.[2] A civil version was looked at but it would have been too large and the BN.4 was not ordered into production.[2]

Specifications

Data from [2]

General characteristics

Performance

Armament


References

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Notes
  1. 1 2 Liron 1984 pp.224-5
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Orbis 1985, pp. 1774-1775
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