I thought..."what topic have we not yet touched upon ever on Mudcat?" And came up with this...

Okay. My favourite is the Albatros series of fighters, from the Albatros D.III to the D.VA. They were very graceful, beautiful looking little planes, and served as the backbone of the German forces for most of the war, being flown by virtually all the German aces, from Richthofen on down. They were biplanes. Their one weak point was that they could not sustain a sharp dive very long without shedding their wings (with fatal consequences). This was somewhat remedied in the D.VA model.

Go for it, Mudcat. We'll see if this thread hits 10 posts.

- LH