Well Clint
The early Farman aircraft (by both brothers) are extremely difficult to understand.
To be honest I don't think anyone really knows what was what and
if Farman did keep
some kind of records, they went down the drain when the Germans arrived in 1940!
The pioneer Jean Liron utterly failed in his Docavia book to make any sense at all of the period
1908 - 1919.
My next source G Hartmann (not Erich
) is not much better and what everyone else call
Type MF.2 he calls MF.3 and so on.
When it comes to the photo at Kees site you will notice I already back then questioned the
designation MF.6bis. Just because the aircraft is marked C MF6 does not mean
it was a Type MF.6 (or MF.6bis and by the way if we have a MF.6bis, what was a regular MF.6)?
Unless someone can provide a documented proof what this myriad of haphazard designations
actually were (and the differences between them) I stick to my own theories.
Unfortunately this Clément guy didn't take the bait and explained what he actually knew.....
It would be very pleasing to know why, for instance, the MF.II and MF.2 were two different designs
and what the difference was and also why Maurice decided to use Roman digits on one type
and regular ones on the next.
So for instance what was the MF.3, MF.4, MF.5, MF.6, MF.8, MF.9 and MF.10?
Cheers
Stig