|
|
The Albatros C.II Gitterschwanz (lattice tail) was an experimental pusher aircraft built with wings and undercarriage of the Albatros C.I. The standard fuselage was replaced with a short nacelle which ended at about the wing trailing edge. The 150hp Benz Bz III engine was placed at the rear of the nacelle and powered a pusher propeller. The conventional fin and rudder tail was attached to the rest of the aircraft by an open light-weight frame (thus the German nickname of Gitterschwanz), with the propeller inside the frame. The crew was carried at the front of the nacelle, with the observer/ gunner in the nose and the pilot behind him. One example was built early in 1916.