AIRCRAFT COLOURS AND MARKINGS OF THE FIRST
WORLD WAR ERA
Albatros D.XII
The Albatros D.XII was built from the crashed D.IX with a new wing cellule
as opposed to the SPAD style cellule of the D.IX. At the Second Fighter
Competition the initial D.XII, 2210/18, was still not considered acceptable
and the second D.XII, 2211/18 was given a lengthened fuselage and increased
span wings with balanced ailerons and was entered in the third competition.
Although its performance was considered better than the Fokker D.VII,
it was not as good as that of the Fokker V.29 or V.36 and its excessive
wing flutter meant that production would most likely not have proceeded
had the war continued into 1919.
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Albatros D.XII 2211/18
Third Fighter Competition
October 1918
Source: Herris: Fighter Competitons
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