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Windsock DataFile 149 Until being handed this volume by our Publisher for review I was completely unfamiliar with the Rumpler C.IV as a WWI type. About 1,050 of them were built by Rumpler (~700), Bayru (~350) and Pfalz (~100) between September 1916 and July 1918. It was distinguished by being fast, 160-170 km/hr (100-105 mph) and high climbing, up to 7,000 metres (23,000 feet), which height it reached quickly, for the time, in about half an hour. For quite sometime it was immune from interception by Allied fighters on its photo reconnaissance flights because it flew above their maximum altitude capabilities. It was most esthetically pleasing, to my eye, in its original configuration with a large spinner faired into a fine-lined fuselage. Peculiarly, it was found that a less attractive rounded nose with only a stub spinner increased maximum speed by 10-15 km/hr (6-9 mph). One of only two surviving C.IVs is on display, fully restored and partially uncovered in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. A second survivor is presently being restored by Koloman Mayrhofer in his Craftlab shops. This DataFile is comprised of 44 pages nicely printed on good, gloss paper stock for maximum quality presentation of the 96 B & W photos, 21 color photos, ten computer generated color images by Jerry Boucher and Ronny Bar and nine pages of line drawings. Mick Davis has provided an exquisite six-view drawing of the plane with scrap details in 1/48 and 1/72 scale. If you're going to build a model of the Rumpler C.IV, you need this DataFile 149. Copies can be ordered from the Albatros Publications website, where you can also see all of the products of Albatros Publications. Our thanks to Albatros Publications for providing the review sample of this Datafile. |
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