Scale: 1:18
Length: 15.5"
Wingspan 17"

The tremendous success of the Albatros Scouts in the early months of 1917 encouraged a feeling of complacency in the IdFlieg (Inspectorate of Flying Troops). It was felt that the Albatros Werke would continue to produce war winning fighters. By May 1917 such Allied types as the Spad, Sopwith Pup and Triplane and S.E.5, each able to out fly the Albatros D-III, were appearing in numbers. With some dismay it was then realized that the new Albatros D-V was little better than its predecessor.

The engine fitted to the D-V was the 180 h.p. Mercedes (the 160 h.p. Mercedes with an increased compression ratio). The 220 h.p. Mercedes and the 200 h.p. Benz were installed experimentally. The radiator was set in the top wing to starboard of the centre-line; machines operating in Palestine had two radiators. Wings, interplane struts and tail were identical to those of the D-III, but the D-V's aileron cables passed through the top wing and had small shrouds, while the D-III's ran through the lower wing and thence up to crank levers on the top wing. The prototype's rudder had a straight trailing-edge, but later machines had trailing-edges of rounded outline. The lower fin was taken back to the horizontal knife-edge of the fuselage --the D-III's lower fin terminated below the rudder- hinge line. In contrast to the flat-sided D-II fuselage, that of the D-V was oval in cross-section and deeper, so that there was a smaller gap between it and the top plane. A faired head-rest was fitted behind the cockpit, but it was frequently taken off. The undercarriage was of the steel tube type with a fairing over the axle, which provided extra lift. Twin synchronized guns were mounted.