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Farman MF.11 "Shorthorn"

It is Farman HF-IV - the early trening airplane.

These two appear to be the same biplane:




Not sure what it is though. It almost looks like something from Blériot, with the broad tail wings like that, but I'm having trouble finding one that seems to be a match. The closest could be the Blériot, II, but that seemed to have vertical fabric segments between the upper & lower wings in both the main & tail wings, and the plane in this photo doesn't seem to be like that:



Also, the plane in that photo is a flying boat, and this one has wheels. So there's that, too. Could be in the same family though?

Chris Devers That is a good lead, thanks!

Ah, here we go: is this a Farman Biplane or Farman III?





The features seem similar, including:
• seems to be a pusher design
• combination ski / dual-wheeled undercarriage
• fore & aft biplane wing structure
• similar pattern to the vertical struts: |___|___|_|_|___|___|

The Bristol Boxkite seems to be very similar (apparently Farman sued Bristol for stealing the design), but the Boxkite seems to have two vertical tails, and this aircraft only has one, so I suspect this isn't a Boxkite, unless there were variant designs with a different tail construction.

Exactly this is the Henry Farman Type III pusher biplane flown by Louis Paulhan at the Los Angeles International Air Meet 1910. Lots of photographers were around, so the flying was heavily documented. Look also at the California State University Dominguez Hill Doigital collection at archives.csudh.edu:2006/cdm4/aviationmeet.php

It's a Farman-4 single rudder pusher biplane with Gnome rotary engine 50 h.p. Most successful Henry Farman modification 1909-1910.