Description

Large format paperback, staple bound in white pictorial covers. 36 pages plus covers. Illustrated with 53 rare archive black and white photographs and a dozen drawings; 11 pages of detailed 1:48 and 1:72 scale drawings by Martin Digmayer and three color profiles by Ray Rimell on rear cover. “Fabric: Camouflage and Markings” essay by Ray Rimell and Appendices round out this issue. First edition. With its completely enclosed engine and sleek airframe the Albatros C.V was among the most modern looking of World Wat I military aircraft. “Previous writings on the streamlined Albatros C.V have presented a somewhat distorted, even detrimental, view of the aircraft which is unmerited as tellingly revealed by this revisionist monograph,” writes Ray Rimell in his opening foreword. Though honest differences of opinion may still exist as to the aircrafts performance and Mercedes power-plant no one can argue that the Albatros C.V, stylistically at least, was a worthy precursor to the fighting machines of the next war. An excellent resource for the scale-modeler and airplane enthusiast. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine.