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  Henry Farman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Farman (May 26, 1874 - July 18, 1958) was a French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman.
Farman trained as a painter at the École des Beaux Arts, but quickly become obsessed with the new mechanical inventions that were rapidly appearing at the end of the 19th century.
Henry Farman died in Paris and is buried in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Farman   (315 words)

  
 The Pioneers : An Anthology : Henry, Maurice and Dick Farman
Henry Farman was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1919 and retired a naturalized french citzen in 1937, when the French aircraft industry was nationalized He died in Paris on July 18, 1958.
Henry Farman made a number of modifications of his own to the Voisin during the autumn, including a reduction in the size of the tail surfaces, removing one of the forward elevators, and rigging a slight dihedral angle into the wings.
Farman succeeded on rising on such a machine of his own invention [sic: the Voisins had actually invented it], in flying over a kilomètre towards a goal previously fixed, which he rounded in perfect conditions of stability, and in returning to his starting point, where he alighted without a hitch.
www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/farman.html   (2879 words)

  
 Farman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Farman Aviation Works was an aeroneutic enterprise founded and run by the brothers Henry and Maurice Farman.
In 1941 they rebuilt it as "Société Anonyme des Usines Farman" (SAUF), which latelly disolved in 1956.
The Farman brothers constructed more than 200 types of aircraft between 1908 and 1941.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Farman   (105 words)

  
 Oneida County New York Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Henry Farman, of Knoxboro, is a native of the town of New Haven, Oswego county, N.Y., where he was born March 14,1823.
Zadok Farman, father of Henry, married in 1814 Martha Dix, daughter of Charles Dix of Vernon, Oneida county.
Farman was also justice of the peace for two terms, and his decisions on cases brought before him were so correct and equitable that no appeal from them was ever taken.
home.comcast.net /~richardson156/farmanh.html   (774 words)

  
 Those Magnificent Men | The Rheims Aviation Meeting 1909   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Henry Farman was left alone circling on endlessly round at a height of about 50 feet (16 m).
Farman finally extricated himself from the crowd by jumping over the barrier into the pilot's paddock and walking back to his shed where he was congratulated by his brother, Dick, and lit a well-earned cigarette.
Farman's flight of 112 miles on the Friday, Curtiss' battle with Blériot in the Gordon Bennett Cup, and Latham's altitude record all demonstrated that aviation was past its experimental phase.
www.thosemagnificentmen.co.uk /rheims   (4639 words)

  
 Henri Farman
I am trying to locate the present whereabouts of the surviving family of the Farman brothers, Henry and Maurice, on behalf of friends who are involved in restoring and racing early cars of the type they raced in the Coupe Gordon Bennett etc before they turned to aviation around 1907.
I know Henry died in Paris in 1958 at the age of 84, and that although he was born of English parents, he lived and worked all his life in France.
Farman flew a biplane constructed by himself and his brother in 1907.
www.earlyaviators.com /efarman.htm   (1517 words)

  
 Henry Farman Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Henry Farman (May 26, 1874 - July 18, 1958) was an aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer.
When Charles Voisin began to produce a powered airplane for sale in 1907, Farman was one of his first customers.
Their 1914 model was used extensively for artillery observation and reconnaissance during World War I. The Farman Aircraft company's Goliath was the first long-distance passenger airliner, beginning regular Paris-London flights on February 8, 1919.
www.biographybase.com /biography/Farman_Henry.html   (283 words)

  
 The Pioneers : An Anthology : Ferdinand Léon Delagrange (1873-1910)
However he was less technically-minded than Henry and had made only a few modifications to the basic design.
Farman was the son of a prominent journalist who had been bitten by the aviation bug.
It didn't matter that his turns were clumsy and he was in constant danger of losing control of the Voison-Farman I. Henri Farman had won the most coveted prize in aviation, and for the moment - as far as the French were concerned - the Wright brothers were beaten.
www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/delagrange.html   (1563 words)

  
 Those Magnificent Men | Henry Farman and the Grand Prix d'Aviation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Henry Farman was born in 1873, the son of a respected English newspaper correspondant working in Paris.
Farman made a number of modifications of his own to the Voisin during the autumn, including a reduction in the size of the tail surfaces, removing one of the forward elevators, and rigging a slight dihedral angle into the wings.
Farman took off, crossed the line at low altitude and began a wide turn with the pole at its centre.
www.thosemagnificentmen.co.uk /grandprix   (1017 words)

  
 AIR SPORTS INTERNATIONAL
Three years leter, Alberto Santos-Dumont flies to Bagatelle and, on January 13, 1908, Henry Farman sets a new record with a one kilometer flight.
In October of that year, Farman set a new record for distance with the first city-to-city air link between Bouy and Reims - 17 miles in all.
Henri and his brother Maurice subsequently built military planes, and after World War I, they introduced the Farman Goliath airliner, built to seat 12.
airsports.fai.org /dec98/dec9804.html   (1728 words)

  
 Rare Early Avition Scene Pencil Case (Farman - Latham). c.1909 (Chris Balm Early Aviation & Motoring Items)
Rare pencil case decorated with an attractive early aviation scene depicting the two pioneer aviators, Henry Farman and Hubert Latham.
The central image shows Henry Farman's Boxkite biplane and Hubert Latham's Antoinette IV monoplane circling around a pylon and also bears the caption,"Farman Flying - Latham Flying".
Henry Farman was born in 1874 to English parents and grew up in Paris, France.
www.cjbalm.com /auto-aero/aitem19.htm   (398 words)

  
 Ancestry Message Boards [ Farman ]
Henry Farman ~ Child Immigrant Sent to VA. in 1619 : Joyce Peck -- 20 Feb 2006
Benjamin Farman : Amanda Farman -- 14 Jul 2000
Benjamin Farman : Amanda Farman -- 15 Jul 2000
boards.ancestry.com /mbexec/board/an/surnames.Farman   (267 words)

  
 PBS - Chasing the Sun - Timeline: 1900 to 1909
With many skeptical of the Wright Brothers' flights, Santos-Dumont is hailed at the time as the first to fly.
In a field near Paris, Henry Farman becomes the first to officially fly a one-kilometer circular course, the world‘s longest distance at the time.
Farman’s plane was created by pioneering French aircraft designers Gabriel and Charles Voisin.
www.pbs.org /kcet/chasingthesun/timeline/1900.html   (323 words)

  
 Voisin Brothers-their 1911 Canard Freres Hydro Seaplane
The Voisin brothers, had the distinction of being the first commercial aeroplane manufacturers in Europe when they began selling their popular biplanes in 1907.
Henry Farman was an early customer and several flew at Rheims in 1909.
Voisin machines were characterised by being safe and stable rather than spectacular in terms of performance, and showed little development over the years.
www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Voisin-canard/info/info.php   (1188 words)

  
 Farman, Henry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Somewhat later Maurice Farman began to manufacture aircraft and in 1912 the brothers merged their interests in the Farman works at Boulogne-sur-Seine, making many planes of their characteristic pusher biplane type for military and training purposes.
After the Wright brothers' public flights in 1908 first disclosed wing warping for latereral control, Farman machines adopted ailerons, a simpler aerodynamic equivalent; the Wright machines adopted wheels.
Subsequently ailerons and wheeled landing gear came into general use on all planes.
cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/F/Farman/1.html   (319 words)

  
 Farman Type III
The Farman brothers Henry and Maurice wanted to become part of the ever-increasing number of aviatiors and ordered a Voisin biplane.
Henri Farman demonstrates his aircraft to a bewildered bunch of spectators.
Of note are the free hanging ailerons, that were kept straight and level in flight by airflow alone.
meltingpot.fortunecity.com /clyde/808/farman3.html   (248 words)

  
 The UnMuseum - Fabulous and Foolhardy Flyers II
In 1907 a man named Henry Farman, son of an English newspaperman based in Paris, became interested in aviation.
Farman decided he would be that man to win the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize and ordered a plane from the newly-founded airplane manufacturer Vosin Freres.
By 1908 the Wright brothers began to have some success at selling their airplanes and it was decided that Wilber should travel to Europe to demonstrate their model "A" plane to French businessmen that were interested in licensing the design.
www.unmuseum.org /flyers2.htm   (3672 words)

  
 Tritle's Bristol Boxkite/Farman Type IV - RC Groups
The Bristol Boxkite, AKA Farman Type IV Standard Biplane, are one and the same.
Henry Farman actually designed the airplane, but it was built under license by Bristol, 135 in all.
And, it was an early Farman Biplane that won the Grand Prix at Rheims in 1910 with a flight of 3 hours 5 minutes.
www.rcgroups.com /forums/showthread.php?t=95861   (1320 words)

  
 THE AVIATION MEET
Both the Farman and the second Curtiss plane which it resembled were developed in 1909.
The Farman and Curtiss planes, like most Aeroplanes in those early days, were biplanes with one pair of wings built above the other.
The aviator, Charles F. Walsh, would first explain his machine, a Farman Aeroplane, and then give some flying demonstrations "of quick rising into the air, sharp turns, and easy descension, the like of which has never been seen at an aviation meet out of the big cities." Four flights were planned.
bchs.kearney.net /BTales_198802.html   (2130 words)

  
 Dimitrios Kamperos
Kamperos with the first greek military machine, a Farman officially named Daedalus, again early-middle 1912, at the Athens Zoo, where the first hangars were errected.
This picture of a Henry Farman in France, is exactly the same type that was purchased by Greece, just before the Balkan War in 1912.
Other types that were flown during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) were 2 Maurice Farmans, 1 Henry Farman 20, 1 Astra hydroplane, 1 Maurice Farman hydroplane, 1 Nieuport IV G monoplane and a captured Turkish Bleriot XI.
www.earlyaviators.com /ekampero.htm   (986 words)

  
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Henry was more important before the war (Shorthorn and Longhorn) and Maurice during (MF20, 40..).
The Horace Farman combined design features from both and may have been built when the two joined forces (it was just Farman late in the war).
In many accounts we see Henry called Henri, but we must not forget that they were nice English boys who went to France to make their fortunes.
www.wwi-models.org /mail-archive/archive.1998/1163   (4918 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - farman, Postcards, Children's Books, Educational Textbooks items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Farman, Farman Aeroplane Flying At Chalons c 1910
Henry Farman Biplane On Ground and In Flight, Reims 1910
Farman Biplane In Flight Pilot Sommer c 1910 Postcard
search.ebay.co.uk /farman_W0QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ3   (359 words)

  
 Voisin/Stewart Lore
They built an aeroplane for Henry Kpferer and then one for Léon Delegrange in which Gabriel Voisin achieved flight in 1907.
In 1565 she married the Scottish Catholic lord Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, father of the future James I of England.
After his death, she married James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, but the resulting fury of the Scots nobles forced her to abdicate and escape to England.
home.hiwaay.net /~mvoisin/gen/genlore.html   (1115 words)

  
 First Plane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His machine, a Henry Farman biplane, had no compass and visibility was practically nil, so he landed on top of the downs just east of the Needles.
Soldiers pushed his machine to a pit at the bottom of the north side of the Downs and just off the first green of the old Needles golf course, where it could remain relatively sheltered.
2) The Henry Farman biplane was made by the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, Bristol.
www.shalfiow.demon.co.uk /first_plane/first_plane.htm   (312 words)

  
 1908 in aviation - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
- Henry Farman wins the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for making a circular flight of over 1 km (0.6 miles).
October 5, the Zeppelin-airship LZ IV destroyed by fire at Echterdingen.
October 14, Henry Farman makes the first cross-country flight in a power-driven aeroplane, from Bouy to Reims (27 km) in 20 minutes.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/1908_in_aviation   (301 words)

  
 Aviation History Facts: March
He became a naturalized U.S. citizen and his Fokker T-2 made the first non-stop flight across the U.S. In 1926, the North Pole was over flown in a Fokker trimotor airplane.
The first machine wholly designed by Anglo-French air pioneer Henry Farman takes to the air at Bouy, France.
Called either the Henry Farman III or, because it represents a new departure, the HF1, the biplane is the first aircraft to incorporate practical ailerons attached to the trailing edges of the wings.
www.centennialofflight.gov /user/fact_apr.htm   (3009 words)

  
 Famous Flights of 1908 - A Chronology of Aviation History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
enry Farman makes aviation history by flying the first circular flight in Europe at Issy-les-Moulineaux.
Watched by a handful of people, Farman piloted his Voisin-Farman I biplane over a monitored one-kilometer circuit to win the coveted Deutsch-Archdeacon prize of 50,00FF.
The US government has gone a long way to accepting the Wright Flyer for the Army Signal Corps.
skytamer.com /Aviation-History-Famous-Historical-Flights-of-1908.htm   (467 words)

  
 Famous Flights of 1907 - A Chronology of Aviation History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
fter 225 attempts, Henry Farman takes off in his Voisin-Farman I biplane at Issy-les-Moulineaux.
This initial flight was approximately 262 feet in length.
enry Farman makes a flight of 3,379 feet in one minute 14 seconds in his Voisin-Farman I biplane.
skytamer.com /Aviation-History-Famous-Historical-Flights-of-1907.htm   (310 words)

  
 Voisin
Despite its marginal controllability, the Voisin set many records, and is largely responsible for creating an interest in aviation amongst all Europeans.
Aircraft designer Henry Farman (responsible for the Farman observation aircraft of World War I), had his earliest flight experiences in Voisin aircraft.
Perhaps the most famous man to ever fly a Voisin was the world renowned escape artist and magician, Harry Houdini, who became the first recorded pilot to ever successfully fly an aircraft in Australia.
www.oldrhinebeck.org /collection/airplanes/Voisin.htm   (318 words)

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