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The Fairey F.2 was a British
fighter prototype in the late 1910s. It was the first aircraft designed entirely by the
Fairey Aviation Company
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Development
The F.2 was ordered by the
Admiralty
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in 1916 as a massive, three-seat long-range fighter. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Falcon engines, it was a three-bay
biplane with a four-wheel "bedstead" main
undercarriage, the wings
folding
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aft from a point outboard of the engines. Armament consisted of a .303 in (7.7 mm)
Lewis Gun on a
Scarff ring on the extreme nose and a similar installation immediately aft of the wings.
Operational history
Built at Harlington the F.2 was transported by road to
Northolt Aerodrome
("Ready to carry or to fight")
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where it first flew on 17 May 1917; however, by then Admiralty interest in the project had waned. The fighter was found to be hard to handle and slow, and therefore no further production was continued.
Operators
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Royal Naval Air Service
Specifications
References
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1910s British fighter aircraft
F.2
Aircraft first flown in 1917
Biplanes
Aircraft with counter-rotating propellers