Albatros Dr.I

Albatros Dr.I

Role	Fighter Type of aircraft
Manufacturer	Albatros Flugzeugwerke
Primary user	Luftstreitkräfte
Number built	1
Developed from	Albatros D.V

The Albatros Dr. I was a German fighter triplane derivative of the D.V fitted with three pairs of wings instead of two. Identical in most other respects to the D.V, in the summer of 1917 it was flown side by side with the existing biplane in comparison trials. There was no discernible performance advantage and development was halted at the prototype stage.

Specifications

Data from Gray and Thetford 1962, p.266

General characteristics

Crew: 1
Length: 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in)
Wingspan: 8.7 m (28 ft 7 in)
Height: 2.42 m (7 ft 11 in)
Powerplant: 1 × Mercedes D.III 6-cylinderinline water-cooled, 120 kW (160 hp)
Propellers: 2-bladed

Armament
2 x lMG 08 machine guns

Notes

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Albatros Dr.I.

Gray, P. and Thetford, O. German Aircraft of the First World War. London: Putnam, 1962
Green, W. & Swanborough, G. The Complete Book of Fighters. London: Salamander Books, 1994 ISBN 1-85833-777-1

Albatros aircraft

Early aircraft

Military Idflieg
designations

B type unarmed reconnaissance biplanes	B.I B.II B.III
C type armed reconnaissance biplanes	C.I C.II C.III C.IV C.V C.VI C.VII C.VIIII N C.IX C.X C.XI C.XII C.XIII C.XIV C.XV
D type Doppeldecker fighters	D.I D.II D.III D.IV D.V D.VI D.VII D.VIII D.IX D.X D.XI D.XII D.XIII D.XIV D.XV
Dr type Dreidecker triplane fighters	Dr.I Dr.II
G type Grossflugzeug bombers	G.I G.II G.III G.IV
J type close support	J.I J.II J.III

Company
designations

Landflugzeug (Landplanes)	LDD L.1 L.2 L.3 L.4 L.5 L.6 L.7 L.8 L.9 L.10 L.11 L.12 L.13 L.14 L.15 L.16 L.17 L.18 L.19 L.20 L.21 L.22 L.23 L.24 L.25 L.26 L.27 L.28 L.29 L.30 L.31 L.32 L.33 L.34 L.35 L.36 L.37 L.38 L.39 L.40 L.41 L.42 L.43 L.44 L.45 L.46 L.47 L.48 L.49 L.50 L.51 L.52 L.53 L.54 L.55 L.56 L.57 L.58 L.59 L.60 L.65 L.66 L.67 L.68 L.69 L.70 L.71 L.72 L.73 L.74 L.75 L.76 L.77 L.78 L.79 L.80 L.81 L.82 L.83 L.84 L.100 L.101 L.102 L.103
Wasserflugzeug (Seaplanes)	W.1 W.2 W.3 W.4 W.5 W.8 WMZ
Höhenflugzeug (High Altitude)	H.1

Idflieg F, Dr and DDr-class aircraft designations

F- class

Fokker	F.I

Dr- class

AEG	Dr.I
Albatros	Dr.I Dr.II
DFW	Dr.I
Fokker	Dr.I
LFG	Dr.I
Pfalz	Dr.I Dr.II
Schütte-Lanz	Dr.I
Siemens-Schuckert	Dr.I Dr.II

DDr- class

Siemens-Schuckert	DDr.I DDr.II

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