Royal Aircraft Factory: F.E.9
Note: This is a sub-section of Royal Aircraft Factory
Designed to be a high-performance version of the F.E.2b two-seater fighter-reconnaissance aircraft.
Powered by a 200 hp Hispano-Suiza engine it was a pusher design with two Lewis guns - one forward and the other backward.
The first plane was completed in April 1917 and was flown by Roderic Maxwell Hill
Three aircraft built.
Sources of Information
- The Royal Aircraft Factory by Paul R. Hare. ISBN 0-85177-843-7