woljags
Staff Sergeant
its got to be the se5a for me
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The Albatross DV does have a beautiful streamlined fuselage, but it must have had a lot of drag somewhere else in it's design, the boxy looking SE5a with the same hp and just a 100 lb lighter was about 20 mph faster.If sleek = streamlined then you want an Albatros. Not many WWI era aircraft have such a refined fuselage shape.
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The D.V entered service in May 1917 and, like the D.III before it, immediately began experiencing structural failures of the lower wing.[4] Indeed, anecdotal evidence suggests that the D.V was even more prone to wing failures than the D.III. The outboard sections of the upper wing also suffered failures, requiring additional wire bracing.[4] Furthermore, the D.V offered very little improvement in performance.[3] This caused considerable dismay among frontline pilots, many of whom preferred the older D.III. Manfred von Richthofen was particularly critical of the new aircraft. In a July 1917 letter, he described the D.V as "so obsolete and so ridiculously inferior to the English that one can't do anything with this aircraft." British tests of a captured D.V revealed that the aircraft was slow to maneuver, heavy on the controls, and tiring to fly.