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[Lisek]

AVIATOR MOD TEAM and OCEANIC AIR WING
along with several free modders
proudly presents
ALBATROS D.III

The Albatros D.III was a biplane fighter aircraft used by the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) and the Austro-Hungarian Air Service (Luftfahrtruppen) during World War I. The D.III was flown by many top German aces, including Manfred von Richthofen, Ernst Udet, Erich Löwenhardt, Kurt Wolff, and Karl Emil Schäfer. It was the preeminent fighter during the period of German aerial dominance known as "Bloody April" 1917. The plane was manufactured in Albatros Werke and Ostdeutsche Albatros Werke factories. In total 1346 copies of Albatros D.III were built.Albatros D. III was used for destroying enemy balloons and airplanes. It was also commonly on duty when escorting bombers and scout planes. Pilots mentioned excellent view from the cockpit, good controllability, high speed and climb rate. After new Mercedes D. IIIa engine was mounted, flight characteristics were improved, that allowed this plane to be on duty till Autumn 1918. The fighter took part in battles in the West and the Palestinian front. After WW1 used in a big numbers in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20.



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Click here to download Albatros version 2
This is new link with full download, including fixes and some eyecandy java things, mostly in cockpit
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Click here to download template by Phas3e
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INSTALLATION:
1) Please ensure that you have a working copy of DBW/DBW1916 or have the SAS AI Engines Hotkeys Mod working with SAS ModAct for 4.101m
2) After downloading extract the archive and put folder Albatros to your MODS, #SAS or #DBW folder within your Il-2 modded install.
3) Put folder 0_WW1Markings to your MODS, #SAS or #DBW folder. If needed, overwrite files. This solves 20% CTD if someone had one earlier
4) Later from folder Skins take folder AlbatrosDIII and put it into your Paintschemes/Skins directory.
5) Add listed lines to your air.ini, plane.ru and weapons.ru
6) REQUIRES DiffFM to run

Lines to add:

air.ini
AlbatrosDIII             air.AlbatrosDIII  2                                   g01  SUMMER

plane_ru
AlbatrosDIII                 Albatros D.III, 1917

weapons_ru
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# AlbatrosDIII
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AlbatrosDIII.default                       Default
AlbatrosDIII.none                          Empty

Credits:

External 3D by OAW~Magpie and Lisek
Cockpit 3D by Lisek
Superb Default Textures by vpmedia
Template by Phas3e
Java wise coding by SAS~Anto and Loku
Flight Model by SAS~Anto
Pilot skin by max_thehitman
3D help and answering stupid questions by Loku

If I forgot anyone please just PM me. Also, I don't know to whom should go credits for amazing sounds that we borrowed while developing this plane. If anyone knows, please tell me 



Few notes regarding this plane:
1# If engine won't start at first time, try again.
2# Plane has no wheel brakes.
3# Recommended opponent Sopwith Camel by Sani

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Enjoy 



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[archie1971]

super!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Red_Fox90]

[Maro]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY THE MOST FAVOURITE PLANE IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS!

[Antae_destronas]

Gre... Gre... Gre... Gre... GREAT !!!!! Many thanks to everyone involved on this project !!!

Greetings
 Alberto

[SAS~Bombsaway]

Very nice. Thanks to all involved. She is my favorite.

[Maro]

I made battle Albatros vs Camel-the best battle ever!

[mac1]

Congrats! Beautiful work all 

[cgagan]

Many thanks, gentlemen, for the masterpiece!

[ggrewe]

Masterpiece! Thanks to everyone involved - a great classic work of art 

[juanmalapuente]

Finally, the most desired WWI biplane. This is like the Me-109 of WWI. Thanks a lot.

[Schutze]

Sadly most game companies and modders focus on western front which they recreate 1000x times so this is welcoming change for the austro hungrian campaign.