Albatros L 77v

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name=L 77


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type=Reconnaissance aircraft
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The Albatros L 77v was a German tandem two-seat reconnaissance fighter biplane, four examples of which were built under license for Albatros Flugzeugwerke by Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1928. Based upon the Albatros L 76 Aeolus reconnaissance trainer, the aircraft was powered by a 600 hp BMW VI 5.5 water-cooled V12 engine.

Like the L 76, the L 77v had a fabric-covered welded-steel fuselage and wooden dual-spar wings with plywood skins supported by N-type struts. It was armed with twin 7.92 mm machine guns in fixed forward-firing positions and a third on a ring mounting in the rear cockpit.

Three of the aircraft saw service performing armament trials in Lipetsk in the Soviet Union; these included one aircraft testing a free-mounted 20 mm cannon. The fourth aircraft had been destroyed while undergoing tests in March 1929. Between December 1929 and their retirement in October 1931, the surviving L 77vs were based at the Staaken "Erprobungsstelle" (Test Centre).

pecifications (L 77v)

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crew=two, pilot and observer
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length ft=27
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height ft=12
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wing area sqm=27.8
wing area sqft=299
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eng1 number=1
eng1 type=BMW VI
eng1 kw= 450
eng1 hp= 600
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armament1=2 × fixed, forward-firing 7.9 mm machine guns
armament2=1 × flexible 7.9 mm machine gun for observer
armament3=2 × 50 kg (110 lb) bombs
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References

* Green, W. & Swanborough, G. (1994). "The Complete Book of Fighters". London: Salamander Books. ISBN 1-85833-777-1
* [http://www.histaviation.com/Albatros_L_77.html German Aircraft between 1919-1945]

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L 74 -
L 75 -
L 76 -L 77 -
L 78 -
L 79 -
L 81

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