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Albatross cowling close-up
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Albatross cowling close-up
"jd", my Great War aviation expert has send me the following e-mail about
the photo of the Albatross:- "It looks like an Albatross D.V or D.Va replica. There are only two originals in the world: one in the Smithsonian in Washington, and the other in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. The quality of the aluminium looks well ahead of the wartime German product (when restoring the machine in Canberra, the AWM staff found that metal was so poor that the paint flaked off if anyone so much as looked at it). Bare aluminium is unusual for a wartime aeroplane. The cooling louvres are odd - perhaps needed to cool a modern powerplant? I doubt that the asbestos wrapping around the metal piping would survive a present day OH&S inspection." Any further information on the photo would be appreciate. Thanks, Avsec "jd" wrote in message news |
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Albatross cowling close-up
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:44:07 +1000, Avsec wrote:
"jd", my Great War aviation expert has send me the following e-mail about the photo of the Albatross:- "It looks like an Albatross D.V or D.Va replica. There are only two originals in the world: one in the Smithsonian in Washington, and the other in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. The quality of the aluminium looks well ahead of the wartime German product (when restoring the machine in Canberra, the AWM staff found that metal was so poor that the paint flaked off if anyone so much as looked at it). Bare aluminium is unusual for a wartime aeroplane. The cooling louvres are odd - perhaps needed to cool a modern powerplant? I doubt that the asbestos wrapping around the metal piping would survive a present day OH&S inspection." Any further information on the photo would be appreciate. Thanks, Avsec Reproduction of a DVa at Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton. I had posted another 'photo of the aircraft, but it looks as if it was blocked, at least on my server, for being over-sized: I'll try again tonight, with smaller images. Next time I visit I'll see if I can get more information. |
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