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The B.E. designation at first indicated 'Bleriot Experimental', Louis Bleriot being credited with having originated the tractor-engined aeroplane. With the appearance ...

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Follow-up to the B.E.2 powered by a 60kW Gnome rotary engine. Small numbers served as reconnaissance and then training aircraft ...

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Located at Farnborough and engaged primarily in aeronautical research, the Royal Aircraft Factory (so named in April 1912) was responsible for the ...

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The S.E.2 was a rebuild of the unarmed B.S.1, which was designed at Farnborough by Geoffrey de Havilland assisted by H P ...

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Of similar construction to the F.E.3, the F.E.6 was built in 1914 and was powered by a 120hp Austro-Daimler six-cylinder water-cooled engine. ...

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Second of the Farnborough designs to bear a "Bleriot Experimental" designation as a general-purpose tractor biplane, the B.E.2 appeared in 1912 and ...

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Designed at Farnborough by H P Folland at the end of 1914, the S.E.4a was one of a series of "Scouting ...

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Sharing little more than its configuration with the F.E.2 flown at Farnborough in 1913, the F.E.2a appeared early in 1915 and was ...

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Evolved at Farnborough during 1915 as a marriage of the B.E.2c airframe with the then-new R.A.F.4 air-cooled 12-cylinder Vee-type engine of ...

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Designed under the direction of John Kenworthy, the F.E.8 was the first single-seat fighter evolved as such at Farnborough, where the first ...

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The R.E. designation indicated 'Reconnaissance Experimental' and the R.E.5, only 24 of which were built for the RFC, was operated successfully ...

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Known as the 'Harry Tate', the R.E.8 looked a little like a scaled-up B.E.2. During the course of the latter ...

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Second only to the Sopwith Camel in reputation as the RFC's outstanding fighter of World War I, the S.E.5 was designed under ...

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Used mainly by the RFC during 1916, the R.E.7 was a two-seat (later occasionally three-seat) bombing biplane powered by a ...

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First flown in February 1916 and destined to be built in larger numbers than the B.E.2c, the B.E.2e differed from the ...

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On 7 April 1916, a version of the F.E.2b was flown at the RAF Farnborough, fitted with a 250hp Rolls-Royce Mk ...

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With the B.E.12 established in production in 1916, based on the B.E.2c airframe with its equi-span two-bay wing and massive horizontal tail ...

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Among the 12 F.E.2a's sent to France in 1915, where they were flown by No 6 Squadron RFC and sometimes known by ...

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In an attempt to improve the performance of the B.E.12, primarily for the benefit of Home Defence squadrons, a 200hp Hispano-Suiza ...

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The third prototype of the S.E.5 flew at Farnborough on 12 January 1917 powered by a 200hp geared Hispano- Suiza 8B water-cooled ...

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Conceived as a replacement for the F.E.2b in the fighter-reconnaissance role, the F.E.9 was of similar pusher configuration and therefore already ...

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As a derivative of the F.E.9, the RAF planned to develop a dedicated night fighter as the F.E.12. This was to have ...

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The last aircraft type to emerge from the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, before its change of name in June 1918 to ...

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The final aircraft built at Farnborough against contracts for 74 S.E.5s placed in 1917 was used early the following year for an ...

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