The Farman Experimental 2 Seater Biplane FE2b photographed around 1914. The observer is equipped with two Lewis guns, one mounted in front and one firing back over the top wing. The two-seat pusher biplane that was operated as a day and night bomber and as a fighter aircraft by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. The F.E.2 was instrumental in ending the Fokker Scourge that had seen the German Air Service establish a measure of air superiority on the Western Front from the late summer of 1915 to the following spring.This photograph along with many others can be seen along with contemporary documents and photographs on the Early Army Flying CD-ROM. (source:
Early Army Flying, please note that the image shown is of lower resolution and quality than the image on the CD-ROM)
The Farman Experimental 2 Seater Biplane FE2b photographed around 1914. The observer is equipped with two Lewis guns, one mounted in front and one firing back over the top wing. The two-seat pusher biplane that was operated as a day and night bomber and as a fighter aircraft by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. The F.E.2 was instrumental in ending the Fokker Scourge that had seen the German Air Service establish a measure of air superiority on the Western Front from the late summer of 1915 to the following spring.This photograph along with many others can be seen along with contemporary documents and photographs on the Early Army Flying CD-ROM. (source: Early Army Flying, please note that the image shown is of lower resolution and quality than the image on the CD-ROM)
