Give that man a coconut! Oops, get another coconut!!
You’re both right, when the Albatros Company made the lower wings narrower to improve visibility and changed to V interplane struts on the D111 they encountered wing twist problems. For some unknown reason they “transplanted” this wing configuration, without alteration, onto the DV.
Belatedly they added the small struts to the LE and stiffened the construction to eliminate the twist. This site shows the development from D1 to DVa.
http://www.theaerodrome.com/aircraft...batros_di.html
The other “interesting flying episode” happened a couple of seasons ago and clearly shows at least one advantage of flying biplanes.
Perhaps the series of “less than perfect” arrivals early on in the life of the model had weakened the wing structure or maybe I just hadn’t built them strong enough in the first place but on this occasion the spars of both top and bottom left hand wings failed. The model descended quite rapidly with a crazy amount of dihedral but the rigging held everything together and I managed to land with minimal extra damage, just some to the undercarriage. If it hadn’t have been an “old stringbag” it would have resulted in a terminal dive to terra firma!
A fuzzy picture but it goes to prove that she flew again!
Keep up the good work No.6 you can only get better and remember we all started as beginners!!
Grahame