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CAPTURED GERMAN ALBATROS D3 SCOUT AIRCRAFT. DUE TO THE INTERWING STRUT DESIGN, THESE AIRCRAFT WERE KNOWN AS "VEE-STRUTTERS", AND WERE USED TO GREAT EFFECT BY THE GERMANS OVER THE WESTERN FRONT IN 1917.
CAPTURED GERMAN ALBATROS D3 SCOUT AIRCRAFT. DUE TO THE INTERWING STRUT DESIGN, THESE AIRCRAFT WERE KNOWN AS "VEE-STRUTTERS", AND WERE USED TO GREAT EFFECT BY THE GERMANS OVER THE WESTERN FRONT IN 1917
A CAPTURED GERMAN ALBATROS D3 SCOUT AIRCRAFT. DUE TO THE INTERWING STRUT DESIGN, THESE AIRCRAFT WERE CALLED "VEE-STRUTTERS", AND WERE USED TO GREAT EFFECT BY THE GERMANS OVER THE WESTERN FRONT IN 1917
A German Albatros D.III scout aircraft, 1917 model, with late rudder. The Albatros was considered to be one of the best machines used by the enemy in Syria.
CAPTURED GERMAN ALBATROS D.5A SCOUT AIRCRAFT AT EL AFULE AERODROME. (LENT BY MAJOR MCDONALD, 10TH ALH REGIMENT) [SEE H02541, H02813]
DETAIL OF A SOPWITH F1 CAMEL SCOUT AIRCRAFT. NOTE THE MACHINE GUN MOUNTED ABOVE THE COWLING. CAMELS WERE USED EXTENSIVELY OVER THE WESTERN FRONT AND THE MIDDLE EAST DURING WORLD WAR I (FROM 1917).
The Royal Aircraft Factory FE8 equipped with a single machine gun in the front cockpit, arrived at the Western Front in August 1916, at a time when pusher aircraft were outclassed by German fighters.
