Felixstowe F.2

what is it?

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.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · 29.2 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 154 km/htop speed
• size 4,980 kgmax take-off weight
• built 173made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 110 years ago, in 1916.
• 🚗Wingspan of 29.2 m: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1916

introduced

1917

number built

173

role

military flying boat

origin

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

makers

Saunders-Roe

engines

2× Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII

crew

4

length

14.1 m

wingspan

29.2 m

height

5.3 m

max take-off weight

4,980 kg

top speed

154 km/h

range

—

ceiling

2,926 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.