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Greybeard · 2 January 2008, 11:37 PM

1. Situational Awareness (SA) is the most important factor for a pilot.

2.Alb. D.III was mainly faster than its predecessor and this is always a significant improvement for a fighter. Also, its better power to weight ratio gave it better climbing ability (you should have read my previous message: why to ask, if you don't read answers?).

3.Probably germans envied Nie.17 manouvrability, so tried to emulate sesquiplane (at that time flight was still much a matter of attempts).

4.Albatros were anyway superior to allied scouts already from D.I: kill rate, favourable to germans, during fall and winter of 1916/17 demonstrates it well beyond any possible theoretical reasoning.

GB

2 January 2008, 11:37 PM	#25 (permalink)
Greybeard Forum Ace Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Italy Posts: 698	1. Situational Awareness (SA) is the most important factor for a pilot. 2.Alb. D.III was mainly faster than its predecessor and this is always a significant improvement for a fighter. Also, its better power to weight ratio gave it better climbing ability (you should have read my previous message: why to ask, if you don't read answers?). 3.Probably germans envied Nie.17 manouvrability, so tried to emulate sesquiplane (at that time flight was still much a matter of attempts). 4.Albatros were anyway superior to allied scouts already from D.I: kill rate, favourable to germans, during fall and winter of 1916/17 demonstrates it well beyond any possible theoretical reasoning. GB __________________ ------------------------------------------------------ It doesn't matter what we do but in what relationship we put each other while doing what we do.