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Originally posted by FlyRetired:
James McCudden briefly flew an Albatros D.V, D.1162/17 from Jasta 4 (Vzfw. Clausnitzer) and similarly said, '...On November 5th I went to Hendon with Capt. Clive Collett to fly a V-strutter Albatros which he had for demonstration purposes, and I had a nice ride in it, but I could not think how the German pilots could manoeuvre them so well, for they were certainly not easy to handle." Later, of course, Capt. Collett was killed flying this same Albatros over the Firth of Fourth, apparently when a portion of the exhaust manifold came loose from the engine and struck him and stunned him. It dived straight into the water."
Great stuff! Pilots certainly were literate at the turn of the last century, weren't they?

Having read McCudden's memoirs, I recall him describing the slightly nose-up attitude of the Albatross in flight. McCudden said they always reminded him of "small dogs begging."

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