Let Let Let – Warplanes

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Advancing from D.II to D.III, Albatros’ engineer Robert Thelen kept good fuselage of D.II and had changed wings to known Nieuports’ sesquiplane style with V-struts. Unfortunately he coppied also weakness of this wing form, and it required careful piloting to avoid the risk of wing failures… When in beginning of 1917. D.III type became obsolete [...]

Eduard is well known known by the great line of its plastic kit but they also manufacture more then excellent photo etched detail sets. This detail set are included in some series of their kits but also is released as stand alone products. In the July 2008 one very important detail set is released- Seatbelts [...]

In this second and last part, we will review the German flying boats built over the period 1935-2000. It is surprising to see that basic good designs as the Dornier Wal and Do-24 were even further developed in the eighties using new materials! Dornier Do-18 This Dornier works photographs shows the start of the Do-18V1 [...]

German aircraft manufacturers have always been on the lead of new developments since the birth of aviation. They already used reliable and seaworthy seaplanes during the First World War. In their operations over the North Sea area they were in most cases superior in agility and speed when compared with their slow an sluggish seaplane [...]