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edmondthieffry
Scout Pilot
Registered: March 2003
Location: Braine-L'Alleud, Belgium
Posts: 424
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Mon - 27 September 2004 1:33am
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Rating: 10.00
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Awesome !!!
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Thomas Kepple
Observer
Registered: December 2004
Location: Post Falls, Idaho
Posts: 54
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Sun - 2 January 2005 3:42am
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Rating: 10.00
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Mark, Fantastic! Do you know of any structural weakness in The Albatross D-Va ? If there was any, I don't see it. The pilots that flew them must have been very confident in them. TeeKay
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Mark_Miller
Forum Ace
Registered: August 2001
Location: Danbury CT. USA
Posts: 1,014
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Sun - 2 January 2005 3:57am
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"Do you know of any structural weakness in The Albatross D-Va"
Yes, I believe the lower wing had a tendancy to twist and break off.
They added that little strut down at the bottom of the V strut to try and fix the problem, but I'm not sure how well it worked.
The DV series was pretty much a rip off of the Nieuport 11.
which had the exact same problem.
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Thomas Kepple
Observer
Registered: December 2004
Location: Post Falls, Idaho
Posts: 54
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Mon - 3 January 2005 1:48am
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Your reply reminds me of the book by James McCudden, "Five Years in The RAF". He talks about his account of mixing it up with an Albatross and seeing the birds wing rip off, then floating down slowly to the ground. It landed only a few yards from where the rest of the airplane crashed. (Could be a cool painting). TeeKay
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Helldiver
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Registered: January 2005
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Tue - 4 January 2005 1:40am
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Rating: 10.00
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It's fantastic! :-)
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womenfly2
Forum Ace
Registered: June 2005
Location: NH
Posts: 546
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Tue - 14 June 2005 10:05am
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Rating: 10.00
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How about doing a Fokker EV/DVIII of Jasta-6 like this? Excellent!
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Stachel
Observer
Registered: February 2007
Posts: 7
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Thu - 1 March 2007 2:30pm
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Rating: 10.00
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I'm glad I didn't give the other phantom view a 10, because this one deserves it. As to the strut supporter, this sounds reasonable. On the other hand, adopting the Fokker DVII wing strut pattern might be a stronger design. I'm no engineer, but the DVII was awesome for its day. Stachel
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Der Grüne Flieger
Forum Ace
Registered: April 2007
Location: Upstate NY
Posts: 621
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Thu - 12 April 2007 10:02am
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Rating: 10.00
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I find your work to be amazing. I am very impressed with the detail.
Phil
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Albatros_Ace
Two-seater Pilot
Registered: August 2008
Location: Dauphin,Manitoba
Posts: 252
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Fri - 22 August 2008 2:26pm
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Hows it a rip off ALL albatros Aircraft were designed like this and were very rugged except for the wing which ripped off in a steep dive in the early models
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