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The Albatros D.V is a fighter aircraft of the German aircraft manufacturer Albatros Flugzeugwerke. It was the final development of the Albatros D.I family and the last Albatros fighter to see operational service with the Luftstreitkräfte (Imperial German Air Service) during the First World War.
The German Albatros is one of the most revered aircraft of the First World War and played a crucial role during 'Bloody April' in 1917. Let's hop inside and see what makes this bird tick.
Single-engine, single-seat, German World War I biplane fighter; 180-horsepower Mercedes D.IIIa water-cooled engine. Lozenge camouflage on wings. Natural wood finish on fuselage. Green and yellow stripes on tail. In 1916, Albatros Werke produced the remarkably advanced Albatros D.I.
The only reliable way to tell the difference externally is the routing of the aileron cables and the aileron horns; the D.V has the cables routed through the top wing and the aileron horns are faired into the wing, the D.Va routes the aileron cable through the lower wing, then up to the (unfaired) aileron control horn.
The Albatros series of single-seat fighters produced between 1916 and 1918 were among the most numerous and distinctive aircraft of the First World War. The Albatros Werke began to build airplanes in 1910. Early in the war, the firm focused on two-seat observation types.
The Albatros D. was a fast climbing plane, able to reach an altitude of 1000m in only six minutes. It was an impressive rate of ascent. It was particularly important because of the way that fighter pilots fought.
From the various sources I have read, it seems the Albatros DVa was nearly identical to the Albatros DIII, mainly because the German engineers failed to produce a better engine. The small increment in horsepower ( about 10 HP) was offset by the weight penalty of the structural reinforcements ( about 50 kg) and the increased drag from the ...
Albatross D.Va 1917. Early Albatros fighters (D.I-D.III) were the first fighters powered by 160-hp Mercedes in-line engines which gave them the power to carry two 7.92mm synchronized machine guns.
Without question, the German combat machine of the Great War that we should be remembering more than any other, is the Albatros series of single seat fighting scouts that carried the fight in the skies over France for longer than all of the Fokker fighters combined.
The D.V is the direct successor to the D.III (the logical nomenclature "D.IV" covers the abandoned Albatross design, whose experimental Mercedes engine proved too active). The D.V arose from the German demand in April 1917 for an improved derivative of the D.III series of fighters.