Albatros D.I

When the Albatros D.I and Albatros D.II fighters arrived at the front in late August 1916, they gave Germany a distinct advantage: a strong, high-power fighter with twin guns. Albatros engineers had been working on the two fighters since April, and Idflieg ordered a batch of fifty for each plane. The D.I had a higher wing, and that obscured the front-upward vision of the pilot. With the view from the D.II cockpit proving superior, no further D.I orders followed, and production shifted to the very similar D.II with its lower top wing, and eventually the D.III. The fifty D.Is and their D.II brothers certainly made an impact.

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