By Paolo Varriale
Austro-Hungarian produced a chain of bad fighter kinds equivalent to the Phönix D I and Hansa-Brandenburg D I through the early levels of the struggle, and it used to be now not till licence-built examples of the battle-proven Albatros and D II and D III started to achieve Fliegerkompagnien, or Fliks, in may perhaps 1917 that the fortunes of pilots started to search for. in contrast to the German-built Albatrosen, which first and foremost suffered wing mess ups in flight, the Oeffag airplane have been way more strong than German D IIs and D IIIs. additionally they displayed more desirable pace, climb, manoeuvrability and infinitely more secure flight features. Such attributes have been used to the total by way of the entire best Austro-Hungarian aces, together with Brumowski, Arigi, Kiss and Linke-Crawford, who fought Italian pilots in Hanriots and SPADs, in addition to British pilots in Camels and Bristol warring parties. The exploits of Austro-Hungarian aces have been in the beginning delivered to the eye of English-speaking readers within the Eighties during the pioneering paintings of Martin O'Connor. an extra 30 years of extra learn has allowed Paolo Varriale to combine and replace his paintings, rectifying a few inaccuracies and including new information and loads of unpublished photos. The cautious crosschecking of Allied resources with Austrian and German files shape the root for a close reconstruction of the dogfights fought by way of the top aces. This painstaking examine permits many myths to be uncovered and blunders to be corrected. The ebook will disguise using Albatros opponents at the Italian and jap Fronts, from the fighters' preliminary arrival in mid 1917 via to the final days of battle. it's going to additionally chart the careers of the Austro-Hungarian aces that flew the D II and D III, their successes and their defeats, with more information approximately their own historical past and their post-war lives within the countries born from the cave in of the Hapsburg Empire. a few forty nine pilots accomplished acedom in the course of global conflict 1, and the majority of those pilots made their claims flying the 586 Oeffag-built Albatrosen.
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