History/Intro!

Howdy, y'all! I'm back once again with a unique aircraft that was forgotten in history: the Farman F.223.3 (Farman was renamed to Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Centre, aka Aerocentre/SNCAC, once France nationalized the Farman corporation with many other major aeronautical companies shortly before the invasion of Poland)

This aircraft was the "most successful" off all of the F.220 models produced. The French basic design for strategic bombers during the interwar period was to have 4 engines, push-pull, with them under two wings, connected by struts. This was proven as a good design feature for the predecessor, the F.211 model, which was one of the last biplane bombers used by the French. The F.220 differed in that it had a longer range, retractable landing gear, and a much larger bomb load. Now, the French had about 88 of these bombers built, from the F.220.1 model, all the way to the F.224.4 model, which may not be impressive, but no other Allied force had strategic bombers at the outbreak of the war

The F.223.3 was the most well-liked by crews, it landed well, and the rivets didn't just fall out on their own. It had a unique bomb bay, as it could hold 500 kg bombs or 50 kg bombs, but they all were facing downwards to make the dropping more effective, albeit inefficient. The plane also sometimes had 1 or 2 20mm autocannons, as well as a ball turret in the nose that held a 7.63 mm machine gun, although this was less common, and most had no protection other than fighter planes, as the F.223.3 was actually originally a mail carrier, as the French ministry originally was hesitant on accepting it as a bomber, as the French government was as disorganized as can be said. All around, the plane exceeded all of the French requirements for a better bomber, and was produced in limited numbers

The most notable achievement of this aircraft is that the 7th of June, 1940, one of these flew from Dunkirk and bombed Berlin alone, and came back unharmed. Greatly cheered on, the bomber was sent once again with incendiary bombs, which had to be thrown by hand, and Berlin was damaged quite a bit. Although, the German propaganda machine turned it around into being just a practice air raid to teach people what to do in the event of a bombing

Also, fun fact, this is the first actual dedicated Farman F.223 model on the site!! There are like 1 or 2 F.220s and such, but they don't include a lot of details that are blueprint accurate, so this is technically the first one, I guess? At least of the F.223 XD

Controls

Now, with that out of the way, here are the controls!

AG1: Bomb bay doors/Bomb activation
Trim: Well, this is pretty obvious lol
All regular flight controls!

Screenshots/Historical Pictures

I hope y'all enjoy!!!!

*Note: Pretty much every plane built was a different model, so I did the one without the gun turrets to make it easier as I had no reliable sources or blueprints for the turrets, and the blueprint I used had different noses, so I did the longer one without the machine gun