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.

 


Albatros D.XII 2211/18
Third Fighter Competition
October 1918
Source: Herris: Fighter Competitons