Albatros G.III explained
The
Albatros G.III (company
L.21), was a German
bomber aircraft development of
World War I. It was a large, single-bay
biplane of unequal span and unstaggered wings. Power was provided by two
Benz Bz.IVa pusher engines installed in
nacelles carried between the wings. An unusual feature of the design was that the lower wing was provided with cutouts for the propellers, allowing the engine nacelles to be mounted further forward than would have been otherwise possible. Few were built, these seeing service mostly on the
Macedonian Front in
1917.
Operators
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