farmanf20

References I've come across indicate that Burri was Swiss, not a French national. The name Ernest Burri shows up multiple times at a French-language website about Swiss aviators. I can't read French, but from what I can puzzle out it looks as though he flew for the French during WWI.

whyaduck: Thanks! We'll change Burri's nationality in the source data and reload the description.

wow the plane in this picture is so different from now days. It is amazing to look at a picture like this and think about how the plane could actually fly. It doesn't seem to safe and the engine must have been very small. Great picture.

a horseback pilot! what a metaphor :) Hi, I'm an admin for a group called New Directions, and we'd love to have this photograph added to the group!

I wonder what the story is with the split ailerons on the top wing. For that matter, what model airplane is it?

The plane is a Farman F-20, a single engine two seat reconnaissance biplane aircraft made in France. www.flugzeuginfo.net/acdata_php/acdata_farman_hf20_en.php The Swiss Airforce purchased two of these airplanes in 1914 see old.hermannkeist.ch/farman-f-20.html

B-59 @B-59 - Interesting references!

I wonder where they hid the engine?

Howard33 Howard33

You might enjoy this view of the Farman HF20 engine, from the Royal Dutch Airforce Museum, Kamp Zeist, by Flickr member PreservedAC.

                  "Farman HF-20,'LA-2' (LVA) Replica"   by PreservedAC
                 

There are several photos of the Farman HF-20 on Flickr, including this one from Flickr Commons member San Diego Air and Space Museum's Library and Archives.
 

See poster at www.trueartworks.com/poster.php/0000-0966