Albatros D.Va
Albatros D.Va | |
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Role | Fighter |
Manufacturer | Albatros |
Introduction | Oct 1917[1][2] |
Primary user | Germany |
Number built | 1662[3] |
Developed from | Albatros D.III |
Variants | Albatros D.V |
Wingspan | 9.02 m (29 ft 7 in) [4][5] |
Engine | 180-200hp Mercedes D.IIIa inline[6] |
Armament | 2×sync. LMG08/15 |
Ammo | 1000 rounds[7] |
Crew | 1 |
Max Speed | 186 km/h (116 mph)[8][4][5] to 193 km/h (120 mph)[9] |
Climb | 1,000 m (3,280 ft) in 4:00[8] 2,000 m (6,500 ft) in 8:08[4] 3,000 m (9,800 ft) in 17:08[4] |
Ceiling | 5,700 m (18,700 ft)[8][5] to 5,900 m (19,500 ft)[9] to 6,200 m (20,500 ft)[4] |
Endurance | 2:00[8][4][5] to 3:00[9] |
The Albatros D.V differed in only minor ways from its precedecessor, the Albatros D.III. And perhaps that was the greatest complaint against it: the D.V wasn't significantly better than a plane that had premiered in late 1916, and it did nothing to restore the air superiority enjoyed by the Germans in the early Albatros months. The D.V moved the aileron control cables to the top wing, rounded out the fuselage and rudder, angled the tailskid fin, and added a headrest (which was sometimes removed to improve rearward vision.) The Albatros D.V premiered in early summer 1917 and was followed by the Albatros D.Va, which returned the control cables to the lower wing and usually came without a headrest. Later D.Va's added a sub-strut in an attempt to stabilize the lower wing from twisting, a problem inherited from the D.III.
D.V's were produced in large numbers: at least 900 D.V's and 1600 D.Va's were ordered, and they were the most common fighters at the front from mid-1917 to the last months of the war, when they were eclipsed by the Fokker D.VII.
For more information, see Wikipedia:Albatros D.V.
Timeline [note 1]
Game Data
Wings of Glory
Availability | Maneuver | Damage | Dmg Points | Max Alt. | Climb | Points |
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Sep/Oct17-end | B | A | 15 | 14 | 4 | 82 |
Plane and Crew Cards
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Jasta 36
Böhning
RAF -
Jasta 76b
Diem
RAF -
Jasta 40
Dilthey
RAF -
Jasta 23
Küllmer
RAF -
Jasta 5
Mai
RAF -
Jasta 62
Nather
RAF -
SFS Flanders
Poss
RAF -
Jasta 18
RAF -
Jasta 18
RAF -
Jasta 18
RAF -
Jasta 18
RAF
Card Links
- Jasta 5 - von Hipple
- Jasta 5 - Konneke
- Jasta 7 - Jacobs
- Jasta 11 - Muller
- Jasta 11 - von Schonebeck
- Jasta 12 - von Tutschek
- Jasta 15 - von Beaulieu-Marconnay
- Jasta 15 - Hintleman
- Jasta 18
- Jasta 18
- Jasta 18
- Jasta 18 - Monnington
- Jasta 18 - Schultz
- Jasta 24 - Wichard
- Jasta 28 - Müller
- Jasta 37 - von Baerwald
- Jasta 37 - Udet
- Jasta 37 - Hamster
- Jasta 37 - Hamster
- Jasta 37 - Haustien
- Jasta 37
- Jasta 37
- Jasta 40 - Dilthey
- Jasta 45b - Esser
- Jasta 59 - Lehmann
- Jasta 76b - Boning
- Mahn
Blue Max/Canvas Eagles
Miniatures and Models
1:144 Scale
- Full-Color Miniatures
- Ares: WGF103A Udet; WGS103B Von Hippel; WGS 103C Jacobs, WGF001A Bäumer
- Shapeways Full Color: Reduced Aircraft Factory: Böhning (J36), Diem (J76b), Dilthey (J40), Küllmer (J23), Mai (J5), Näther (J62), Poss (I SFS); Jasta 18 "Black Band", "Three Band", "Tri-Star", and "Skull"
- Wings of War, Deluxe Set, 1st Edition: Udet; 2nd Edition: Bäumer
- Wings of War: WW07G Udet; WW07H Weber; WW07I Jentsch
- Shapeways Paintable: Decapod; Reduced Aircraft Factory; wow
- Plastic Kit: Valom
1:200 Scale
- Shapeways: ReducedAircraftFactory
1:285/6mm/1:288 Scale
- Shapeways: Decapod; ReducedAircraftFactory
1:300 Scale
- Metal kit: Heroics & Ros GWA302
1:350 Scale
- Shapeways: wow
1:600 Scale
- Metal kit: Tumbling Dice
Resources
Orthographic Drawings
References
- Notes
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Enzo Angelucci, ed. The Rand McNally Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft, 1914-1980. New York: The Military Press, 1983 edition. ISBN 0-517-41021-4.
- Peter Gray and Owen Thetford. German Aircraft of the First World War. Great Britain, Putnam, 1962, 1987. ISBN 0-85177-809-7.
- Peter M. Grosz, "Archiv -- Frontbestand". WW1 Aero, № 107, Dec 1985 and № 108, Feb 1986. Poughkeepsie, NY: World War I Aeroplanes, Inc.
- Kevin Kelly, "Belts and Drums: A Survey of First World War Aircraft Ammunition Totals". Over the Front, Vol. 5, No. 3, Autumn 1990. Walsworth Publishing Co, Inc. and The League of World War I Aviation Historians.
- W.M. Lamberton and E.F. Cheesman, Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War. Great Britain: Harleyford Publications Limited, 1960.
- Kenneth Munson, Fighters 1914-19, Attack and Training Aircraft. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. ISBN 0713707607
- Raymond L. Rimell, Windsock Datafile 3: Albatros D.V. Albatros Publications, Ltd., 1987, 1995. ISBN 0-948414-07-3