Albatross D.XI

The Albatros D.XI is a German experimental hunter of the First World War.

Started with D.IX, the evolution of the hunters Albatros was clearly felt on this apparatus which made its first flight in February 1918. If this single-seater always had a timber structure, a cloth-lined coating of aerofoil and a coating of fuselage in reinforcing plate, the wings, unequal scales, were shifted and held with the wing gap by chechmates out of I supported at the base by a pair of chechmates of connection. The flexible staying was thus superfluous and, for the first time, a plane Albatros received a rotary engine. 2 LMG 08/15 of 7,92 mm were assembled on the cap.

Two prototypes were built, the first receiving a four-bladed propeller and compensated cord ailerons parallel and the second a two-bladed propeller and not compensated ailerons with reversed conicity.

References

  • W. Green and G. Swanborough, The Supplements Book Fighters off. Salamander Books, London (1994). ISBN 1-85833-777-1

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