Two different Farman types have taken the name Super Goliath, the first being the sole
Farman BN.4 of 1922. The F.140, first flown in April 1924, also had 4 engines, though these were more powerful, but was slightly smaller; small numbers served briefly with
l'Armeé de l'Air. These were mounted on the lower wings as
tractor/
pusher pairs, each pair in a single cylindrical housing with domed ends, in the inner bays. Each engine drove a four-blade propeller, each constructed from a pair of two-blade airscrews bolted to the drive shafts at right angles. Tall, narrow radiators were placed vertically above the engine housings. The fuselage of the F.140 was flat sided, the nose rounded into an upright half-cylinder. It had a
conventional undercarriage with pairs of mainwheels mounted on solid, broad, rectangular, vertical extensions below the engines. The F.140 Super Goliath flew for the first time in April 1924. It was followed in 1930 by the
F.141, a modernised version with a nose with a "balcony", a forward thrusting overhanging structure for a gun emplacement. This increased the length by 1.17 m (3 ft 10 in). ==Operational history==