Felixstowe F5L
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The twin-engine F5L was one of the Felixstowe F series of flying boats developed by John Cyril Porte at the Seaplane Experimental Station, Felixstowe, England, during the First World War for productio
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The first Naval Aircraft Factory F5L, 24 July 1918.
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Felixstowe F.5
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The Felixstowe F.5 was a British First World War flying boat designed by Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte, RN of the Seaplane Experimental Station in Felixstowe.
Felixstowe F5L
…original design by the American Glenn Curtiss, and developed it into a practical series of flying boats at the Felixstowe station. They then took their F.5 model and further redesigned it with better streamlining, a stronger hull using veneer instead of doped linen and U.S.-built 330 hp (later 400 hp…
Felixstowe F.5s in formation, 1928.
F.5 of the Gosport Aircraft Company at Calshot, eighth of a batch of 50 ordered.
Short S.2 prototype (N177) at Short Brothers Works, Rochester, Kent, 1924.
F.5 of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN)