The Felixstowe F.3 was a British First World War flying boat, successor to the Felixstowe F.2 designed by Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte RN at the naval air station, Felixstowe.
Felixstowe F.3
Short F.3 Air Yacht (G-EAQT), on the Medway, 11 June 1920, before shipment to Australia.
Felixstowe F.3 resting on the slipway at Kalafrana, Malta, c.1918. F.3s were operating throughout the Mediterranean by the end of the war.
The Felixstowe F.2 was a 1917 British flying boat class designed and developed by Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte RN at the naval air station, Felixstowe during the First World War adapting a larger version of his superior Felixstowe F.1 hull design married with the larger Curtiss H-12 flying boat. The Felixstowe hull had superior water contacting attributes and became a key base technology in most seaplane designs thereafter.
Felixstowe F.2
Felixstowe F.2B (N4545) in a dazzle scheme during an anti-submarine patrol. The dazzle camouflage adopted aided identification during air combat and on the water in the event of being forced down.
Felixstowe F.2A (N4283), finished in a black and white scheme, piloted by Captains R. Leckie and G. E. Livock, March 1918.
Felixstowe F.2a general arrangement drawing showing details of hull.
