This Week’s Hints to help you along:
- Oui, it is a French design.
- Yes, that is a Cross of Lorraine tail flash.
- Form follows function, perhaps? Let’s hope so….
So do you know what this aircraft is?
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Oh oui ! It’s a Farman 2231 :o)
Bernard
Well, maybe — are you sure? Close and not a bad guess…. Isn’t that a four-engine airplane in the photo? Each nascelle carries two engines, a pusher and a puller, so to speak. The pusher engine and prop are visible if you look closely in the shadow under the wing….
You’re right HW, this is precisely what the Farman 2231 is: A 4 engines plane with two pullers and two pushers.
Note that its younger brother, the Farman 2234 “Jules Vernes” modified by the French Navy “Aéronavale” was the very first bomber to bomb Berlin in 1939. It bombed the Siemens plant in the suburbs. A fantastic exploit at the time !
It’s the Aerocentre NC.223.02. It is a four (yes, four) engine plane!
Farman 223-3
1937-1945 (military and Air France version)
4x870Hp Hispano Suiza 12Y
325 Km/h
2000 Km
9000M
2000Kg bombs
After the “1936 Front Populaire” Farman is nationalised and Aerocentre replace Farman
The 7th june 1940 the Aerocentre 223-6 called Jules Vernes shoot the Siemens plant at Berlin
In 1942 the Aeropostale heroes Henri Guillaumet and Marcel Reine are shoot down by an italian fighter . The Air France Aerocentre 223-3 “Camille Leverrier” was on liaison Marseille Damas