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unusual facts about Albatros-Flugzeugwerke



Adlershof

Albatros, Fokker, Rumpler and Wright made Adlershof-Johannisthal famous.

Albatros B.II

An FVM-built Sk 1 Albatros is on public display in the Swedish Air Force Museum near Linköping.

Albatros L 69

In 1925, Albatros' test pilot Kurt Ungewitter won Class D in the Deutsche Rundflug ("Round Germany") in an L 69a, and he was killed in the crash of one two years later.

Auguste Lahoulle

Two months later, on 23 March, Lahoulle teamed with Marcel Haegelen and Jean Chaput to shoot down and capture balloon busting ace Erich Thomas in his Albatros D.V; the French trio also downed a second Albatros accompanying Thomas.

Claude Melnot Wilson

In August, Wilson tallied six more wins, starting with an Albatros reconnaissance plane destroyed in cooperation with fellow aces Arthur Reed and Henry Coyle Rath on the 8th.

Focke-Wulf

Albatros-Flugzeugwerke engineer and test pilot Kurt Tank became head of the technical department and started work on the Fw 44 Stieglitz (Goldfinch).

George Willard Furlow

On 11 August, he shared his first win over a German Albatros two-seater with Edgar Tobin.

Harold Stackard

On 3 September 1917, he destroyed an Albatros D.III southeast of Pervijze, West Flanders.

Hilliard Brooke Bell

On 3 May 1918, Bell continued his string by destroying an Albatros D.III over Ormelle.

Josiah Lewis Morgan

Morgan next scored on the 18th, while flying in Bristol number C4808, helping William Frederick James Harvey set an Albatros D.V aflame over Carvin.

Leif Welding-Olsen

Realising that the enemy would not turn away, and was going to violate Norwegian neutrality, Pol III fired flares to alert Norwegian coastal batteries and rammed the Albatros.

Leslie Jacob Rummell

His triple win on the 29th, when he downed two more Fokker D.VIIs and shared a win over an Albatros two-seater, won him the Distinguished Service Cross.

Luftstreitkräfte

During the war, the Imperial Army Air Service utilised a wide variety of aircraft, ranging from fighters (such as those manufactured by Albatros-Flugzeugwerke and Fokker), reconnaissance aircraft (Aviatik and DFW) and heavy bombers (Gothaer Waggonfabrik, better known simply as Gotha, and Zeppelin-Staaken) and airships of all types.

Melville Waddington

On 29 June 1917, from F.E.2d (A6498), Lieutenant Waddington and his pilot Lieutenant Reginald Milburn Makepeace sent an Albatros D.V out of control over Houthem, Belgium.

On 5 September 1917, from Bristol F.2b (A7203), they sent an Albatros D.V out of control west of Lille, France.

Ottoman Air Force

Even a general enumeration was overwhelming: seven types of Albatros; four types of Fokkers; three types of Gotha bombers; two types each of Rumpler and Caudron; plus LVG B series, Halberstadts, Pfalzes, Voisins, DeHavillands, Nieuports, a Bristol Bullet, a Farman, a Morane-Saulnier L Parasol, and a Grigorovich G.5.

Rockford Air show

Sponsored by United Bank Card, the Black Diamond Jet Team is a five-jet (L-39 Albatros, Canadair T-33) team based out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Rumpler

Rumpler Flugzeugwerke, usually known simply as Rumpler was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in Berlin by Austrian engineer Edmund Rumpler in 1909 as Rumpler Luftfahrtzeugbau.

Sebastian Festner

Flying Albatros D.III (serial 2251/17), Festner was killed in action on 25 April 1917, near Oppy.

Sidney Cottle

He scored three times in early August; then on the 31st he destroyed an Albatros D.III at 0935, killed Josef Pürer and driven his D.III down into captivity at 0940, driven a third D.III down into captivity at 0945, and drove an enemy reconnaissance two-seater down at 1035.

Siebel

It originated in the Klemm-Flugzeugwerke Halle that had been founded in 1934 as a branch of Leichtflugzeugbau Klemm in Böblingen.

SZD-11 Albatros

Based on a fuselage of the SZD-8 Jaskółka, the SZD-11 Albatros was designed to investigate the performance of aircraft during flight in thermal lift.

The Mediterranean Caper

The tower reports that they are under aerial attack by a World War I era German Albatros D-3 biplane painted a startling bright yellow and bearing the familiar black Maltese Cross of World War I Germany.

Thomas M. Harries

On 3 June, he destroyed another Albatros D.III southeast of Quesnoy.

Three days later, he was credited with the capture of another Albatros, a reconnaissance plane, two miles east of Armentières.


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