Windsock Datafile

Had the Great War continued into 1919, the Martinsyde F.4 would have equipped a large number of RAF squadrons and doubtless proved its value in combat; wartime evaluations that pitched it against the latest British, French and German fighters proved the F.4 to be by far the superior machine in most all respects. The Buzzard, as it became known, saw little use in the peacetime RAF either, the standard post-war RAF fighter being the inferior Sopwith Snipe; however several foreign air arms operated the type and examples served the Irish Republic, Latvia, Portugal, Russia, Spain and particularly Finland.