Halberstadt D.V

The Halberstadt D.II (with a 120hp Mercedes D.II) and D.III (with the 120 Argus AS II) premiered in June 1916 at a time when the Fokker Eindeckers were really showing their age and lack of performance. Their good flying characteristics made them more popular than their contemporaries of the Fokker D.I-IV, and it was not until the rise of the twin-gun Albatros fighters that the the Halberstadts were withdrawn from the Western Front in mid 1917.

The Halberstadt D.V was a development of the D.III with the forward vision improved through an open cabane strut structure, balanced ailerons, and a circular top-wing cut-out. The single machine gun was placed on the port (intake) side of the engine and a simple side exhaust was fitted. Fifty-seven were built, of which thirty-one were sent to Turkey, and several of the 26 remaining were used in Palestine, where they continued to serve well into 1918. Planes serving in the Middle East were sometimes fitted with supplementary radiators and/or a second machine gun.

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