Albatros D.III
Johannisthal, OAW, and Oeffag variants
In 1916 German aerial domination, once held sway by rotary-engined Fokker and Pfalz E-type wing-warping monoplanes, had been lost to the more nimble French Nieuports and British DH 2s which not only out-flew the German fighters but were present in greater numbers. Born-from-experience calls from German fighter pilots requested that, rather than compete with the maneuverability of these adversaries, new single-engine machines should be equipped with higher horsepower engines and armed with two rather than the then-standard single machine gun. The Robert Thelen-led Albatros design bureau set to work on what became the Albatros D.I and D.II and…
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Weitere Autoren: Miller, James F. (Illustr.) / Tooby, Adam (Illustr.) / Morshead, Henry (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4728-0793-9
- EAN: 9781472807939
- Produktnummer: 17924833
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'762 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 50 b/w; 7 col
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James F. Miller is a married father of two who lives in Naples, Florida. A commercial pilot and lifelong student of all aspects of aviation, his current research focuses on the middle years of World War I.
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