Albatross D. V 457mm laser. carved

Albatross biplane fighter D. In the spring of 1917 was a slight improvement-beating machines D. III, who in 1916 helped Germany gain overwhelming air superiority over the Western Front. Since German industry was, among other things. Due to naval blockades, which robbed it of supplies of strategic raw materials, able to develop and mass-produce aircraft engines power above 200 horsepower, looking for a path to higher performance relief structure. This led to a dangerous decrease in the strength of the airframe; or other flight characteristics were not great. Still, it was out of sheer necessity produced nearly 2,500 machines, which were used until the spring of 1918, until they were replaced by the excellent Fokker D. VII ...

Designers of American companies DUMAS Aircraft is the ideal machine for modelers who already has at least basic experience in building small models powered by rubber (as the first model to obtain basic experience with classical building is recommended to first build eg. One of the cabin wing aircraft from Guillow's or HERR ). You will improve in the building "žbrdličkové" skeleton fuselage and wings, paper coating and painting, preparation and curing the rubber volume zalétávání - just all those wonderful skills genuine classic modelařiny. While the building is not much they expect hundreds of hours in the workshop, thanks to a highly preprocessed laser-carved parts it goes like clockwork.

Designers semiscales free-flying German fighter aircraft designed for propulsion by rubber. The model is simple but classic balsa structure in Rozsyp with laser carved wooden parts, scale accessories made of vacuum-molded plastic parts and plastic drawn by injection molding. The hull is constructed right minimaketářskou technology with dividers and plenty of stringers, which allow to faithfully reproduce the rounded shapes of modern machines. Built in two stages - thanks to "split" in the vertical plane stand directly on the countertop first half of the fuselage, and then to her "dolepíte" second half. This ensures that even complicated shapes hull stand straight and symmetrical, without needing any special preparations. The wings are the classic design of the spars and ribs, tail out of balsa wood strips and laser-carved parts.

Albatross DV is also suitable for conversion to a miniature RC model with electric drive - although the construction plan does not offer this option for experienced modelers and the pilot would not be a big problem. For example, you can try to use the drive unit, and cabin electronics of miniature foam models Nine Eagles.

Kit includes: laser carved balsa parts, balsa wood beams, vacuum-molded parts (engine cover, canopy ...), plastic propeller shaft and head, rubber volume (FAI competition rubber TAN II), bicycles, steel strings on the chassis, and more small parts, colored lining paper sheet of stickers, construction plan.