{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} __NOTOC__ <!-- This article is a part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout. --> {{Infobox aircraft |name=Flanders F.2 |image= |caption= |type=Single-seat monoplane |manufacturer=Richard Leonard Howard-Flanders |designer=Richard Leonard Howard-Flanders |first_flight=8 August 1911 |introduction= |retired=1912 |status=Destroyed |primary_user= |more_users= |produced= |number_built=1 |variants= }}

The '''Flanders F.2''' was a 1910s British experimental single-seat monoplane aircraft that was designed and built by Richard Leonard Howard-Flanders and later converted to a two-seater as the '''Flanders F.3'''.

==Development== Howard Flanders had been an assistant to A.V.Roe when he decided to design his own aircraft. In 1910 he could not get an appropriate engine for it. He started again on another monoplane design, the '''Flanders F.2''', powered by a 60&nbsp;hp (45&nbsp;kW) Green engine. The F.2 was a single-seat shoulder-wing monoplane. The wing, as usual for the period, was braced by wires and kingposts. It had a fixed tailskid landing gear with bicycle-type wheels and a central skid projecting forward from between the wheels. The central skid was to stop the aircraft nosing over on rough ground. It flew for the first time on 8 August 1911.

Later in 1911 the aircraft was modified to include another cockpit forward of the pilot for a passenger. The wingspan was increased and the modified aircraft was re-designated the '''Flanders F.3'''. It flew successfully for a number of months until it was destroyed in a fatal accident on 13 May 1912, when Mr. E.V.B Fisher was piloting it with an American passenger Mr. Mason when it crashed at Brooklands, killing them both.<ref name="times77" /> In 1912, the War Office ordered four monoplanes based on the F.3 and designated the Flanders F.4.

==Variants== ;F.1 :Unbuilt experimental monoplane ;F.2 :Single-seat monoplane powered by a 60hp (45 kW) Green engine. ;F.3 :F.2 modified as a two-seater with increased wingspan to 42 ft 0 in (12.80m).

==Specifications (F.2)== {{Aircraft specs |ref=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing |prime units? = imp |crew=One |length m=9.68 |length ft=31 |length in=9 |span m=10.67 |span ft=35 |span in=0 |wing area sqm=18.58 |wing area sqft=200 |gross weight kg=567 |gross weight lb=1250 |eng1 number=1 |eng1 name=Green inline engine |eng1 kw=<!-- prop engines -->45 |eng1 hp=<!-- prop engines -->60 |max speed kmh=97 |max speed mph=60 }}

==See also== {{Aircontent <!-- include as many lines are appropriate. additional lines/entries with carriage return. --> |related=<!-- related developments --> |similar aircraft=<!-- similar or comparable aircraft --> |sequence=<!-- designation sequence, if appropriate --> |lists=<!-- related lists --> |see also=<!-- other relevant information --> *1912 Brooklands Flanders Monoplane crash }}

==References== <references>

<ref name="times77"> {{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Aeroplane Accident At Brooklands - Mr. E.V.B Fisher and Passenger Killed |author= |department=News |date=14 May 1912 |page=9 |pages= |issue=39898 |column=F }}</ref>

</references> * The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing

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