Albatros J.I

A.E.G. and Junkers had produced armored close-support aircraft in the J-class, and they were supplemented by the Albatros J.I and J.II. The J.I married the C.XII wing with an ungainly fuselage with armor plating over the cockpit area. The lack of plating to protect the engine was a major limitation of the type: its competitors had armored the engine as well as the crew areas. This oversight was corrected in the J.II.

Given that it had less horsepower than the C.XII, flight performance must have been much more clumsy, but that mattered little at the altitude and mission profile under which the J.I operated.

1:144 Scale

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1:285/6mm/1:288 Scale

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