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The Martinsyde F.1 was a British two-seat
biplane fighter designed and built by
Martinsyde Limited, only two prototypes were built.
Design and development
The F.1 was designed as a fighter for the
Royal Flying Corps and it was a large tractor biplane powered by a
Rolls-Royce Mk III piston engine.
It had two tandem open cockpits with unusually the observer forward and the pilot behind.
A rectangular aperture was cut-out of the upper wing above the observer's cockpit which would allow the observer to use a gun.
[Bruce 1965, pp. 154, 156.] It was tested at
Martlesham Heath
Martlesham Heath village is situated 6 miles (10 km) east of Ipswich, in Suffolk, England. This was an ancient area of heathland and latterly the site of Martlesham Heath Airfield. A "new village" was established there in the mid-1970s and t ...
in July 1917, where it demonstrated good handling but was criticised for the awkward crew arrangement.
It was not ordered into production and only one prototype (of two ordered) was built. It continued in use at
Farnborough until after the end of the war.
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F.1
1910s British fighter aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1917