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Description

This is an injection-plastic aircraft model kit.

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Model features
Released on 10 March 2020 due to popular demand
-Limited Edition - NO DECALS INCLUDED
- 28cm x 23cm
- Relatively simple  rigging
- 157 high quality injection moulded plastic parts
- Optional radiators, headrest, propellers, flares and 160hp D.III, 180hp D.IIIa & 200hp D.IIIau engines and Albatros D.V & D.Va parts
- 11 photo-etched metal detail parts including LMG 08/15 Spandau cooling jackets
- Fine in scale rib tape detail
- Full rigging diagrams

Johannisthal based Albatros Flugzeugwerke GmbH were responsible for some of the most graceful and effective fighters of the Great War. Their twin gun, semi-monocoque plywood fuselage Albatros D.1, powered by a 160hp Daimler Mercedes D.III engine, arrived at the front in September 1916 and achieved instant air superiority over its main opposition of Nieuport 11 and DH.2 fighters. Followed immediately by the slightly improved D.II and in December 1916 by the much improved D.III, with its V strutted sesqiplane wing enabling both greater maneuverability and visibility. Unfortunately this lowering design was also the cause of numerous, frequently fatal, structural failures. Even as the excellent D.III went into production plans were underway for its successor, the Albatros D.V. Retaining the wings of the D.III but with aileron controls routed through the upper wing and with a redesigned fuselage completely oval in section, the D.V was arguably the best looking of all Albatros designs. Unfortunately the D.V inherited the lower wing structural failure problem of the D.III and turned out to not be any real improvement over it performance wise either. Despite this, the Albatros D.V and the D.Va (with aileron controls cables reverted to D.III configuration), were manufactured in greater numbers than any previous German fighter of the war (only surpassed later by the Fokker D.VII, of which Albatros manufactured the great majority). Even after the introduction of the superb Fokker D.VII the Albatros D.V and D.Va could still be found equipping front line Jastas, although most had been relegated to training or home defense duties by the time of the Armistice. This model includes Albatros D.V and Albatros D.Va parts to build one model and markings as indicated.