L 69 | |
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Albatros L.69 at the 1925 Round Germany Contest | |
Role | Racer |
Manufacturer | Albatros Flugzeugwerke |
Designer | R. Schubert |
First flight | 1925 |
Number built | 4 |
The Albatros L 69 was a two-seat German parasol monoplane racing and training aircraft of 1925. It was a single- engine parasol-wing monoplane of conventional configuration that seated the pilot and passenger in tandem, open cockpits. It was advertised as a trainer, however contemporary reports dismissed this due to the difficulty in accessing the front cockpit, and the designers' focus on performance. [1]
In 1925, the Albatros test pilot Kurt Ungewitter won Class D in the Deutsche Rundflug ("Round Germany") in an L 69a, but was killed in one in a crash two years later. The "Round-Saxony" flight Class D was won by a Bristol Lucifer-engined Albatros L.69, piloted by a student at an average speed of 165 km/h. [2]
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