James McCudden, V.C., started out his prolific flying career in the FE2b, as he tells it in "Flying Fury"

"At that time the F.E., with the 250 Rolls, was a wonderful machine, and the way our observers and pilots used to climb round the capacious nacelle was most amusing. In fact, on patrol, up high, I sometimes stood on my seat and looked over the tail, the machine was so steady and stable.
My observer never liked this part of the performance, especially when one day I was doing it and one of my gloves blew off and into the propeller, which shed a blade, and very nearly wrecked the machine before I could reach my seat and throttle my engine down."