ITALIEN 1WK LUFTFAHRTRUPPE FARMAN MF 2657 ABSCHUSS 1917 BEI MARIA GAIL
The Maurice Farman MF.11 Shorthorn is a French aircraft developed before World War I by the Farman Aviation Works. It was used as a reconnaissance and light bomber during the early part of World War I, later being relegated to training duties.
The Maurice Farman Shorthorn was the aircraft in which Biggles, Capt W.E. Johns' fictional character, first took to the air in "Biggles Learns To Fly".
The MF.11 served in both the British and French air services on the Western Front in the early stages of the war. It flew the first bombing raid of the war when on 21 December 1914 an MF.11 of the Royal Naval Air Service attacked German artillery positions around Ostend, Belgium.
The MF.11 was withdrawn from front-line service on the Western Front in 1915, but continued to be used by the French in Macedonia and the Middle East, while the British also used it in the Dardanelles, and Africa. The Australian Flying Corps (AFC), provided with the MF.11 by the British Indian Army, operated it during the Mesopotamian campaign of 1915–16.
Italy's Società Italiana Aviazione, a Fiat company, licence-built a number of MF.11s under the designation SIA 5 from early 1915, fitted with a fixed forward machine gun and a 74.5 kW (100 hp) Fiat A.10 engine.
ORIGINAL PHOTO AK DER ITALENISCHEN LUFTWAFFE; GEFERTIGT VOR 1918; CA 17X10cm GRÖSSE; GUTER GEBRAUCHTER ZUSTAND GEMÄSS SCAN;
ORIGINAL ITALIAN AVIATION TROOP PHOTO: MADE PRE 1918; GOOD USED CONDITION AS TO SEE ON THE SCANS
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