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Olham54

The Bordeaux-Red Baron
Not much going on round here - is everyone gone skiing?
This site must have been recommendet here before, but I'll show some pics here anyway, and recommend it again - everyone will find "his/her" plane here.
Here's a Halberstadt D V; the Albatros Dreidecker; and a high altitude oxygen apparatus on a D VII

http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive1.htm
 
I like the 3rd picture. Especially the moustache coming out of his leather helmet :costumes:
 
The Halberstadt DV looks great (like a shark). Never seen that before. Do you have anything on its performance?

Crozbone

ps Not skiing but back to work:typing:
 
Hi, Gousgounis; yeah, everybody knows, we German officers all have moustaches - Hollywood tradition!
Hi, Crossbone Here's a German WIKIPEDIA site with Halberstadt planes. They weren't as good as the early Albatros, and so they served rather before their time. The D II appeared in 1915, when it was a reasonable good fighter against the early Allied planes. The D V was meant to be competitor to the Albatros D II, but wasn't as good. You will be able to fly a Halberstadt (D II, I think) in OFF Phase 3.

HALBERSTADT D V
Year: 1917
Purpose: Fighter
Built: 120
Surface of wings: 24,00 m²
Empty weight: 525 kg
Weight at start: 737 kg
max. Speed: 185 km/h at sealevel
watercooled 6-Zylinder-inline Opel-Argus As II with 120 PS/HP
1 or 2 machine guns (with two guns, the plane was rather over-weight)


http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halberstadt_D.V#Technische_Daten
 
The performance of the DV was virtually identical to it's predecessors. It had slightly better forward vision, with a different wing design and cabane arrangement. 57 were built, with 31 of them sent to Turkey, where they served well into 1918.
The DII used a 120 hp Mercedes DII, and the DIII used a 120 hp Argus AsII. Otherwise, they were indistinguishable. The OFF Halb is a DII, but it doubles as a DIII.
Cheers,
shredward
 
This is a really great find, Crozzbone!

The "www.flieger-album.de" website is full of material from the German airman Werner Dittmann, who seems to have served throughout the whole war; first as a two-seater pilot; later as a fighter pilot.
The 15 (!) foto albums alone are really worth to dig in for hours! And then, there are more albums by other pilots, by a mechanic, and more - lots of material altogether. We find pictures from the everyday life of the aircrew, aerial photographer's rooms, little ceremony parties, etc. - but the greatest: lots of photos from all types of planes! There are big two-seaters and fighters. We see a captured SPAD VII with German markings, a very good left-side view of a Halberstadt, Roland "Walfisch" and Roland "Haifish", captured Sopwith Pup and Nieuport, Albatros C and D types, crashed planes, and and and...
I highly recommend this site - EVERYONE around here WILL find something interesting !
I've just picked out a funny pic showing, how to dress up for high altitudes - Eskimos are lightly dressed, compared to this!

Thank you very much, CROZZBONE. You should make a thread about it.
 
Glad you like it. :jump: I wish I could read German better but I had only one semester in college and that was quite a few years ago. Still, the photographs are great and they really take you back in time.

Crozbone
 
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