Pfalz Aircraft to Verify

[Romantic Technofreak]

The attached pictures are again from the San Diego Air and Space Museum's collection on flickr.com. The first one is captioned "Pfalz experimetal". It obviously shows a Pfalz D.III with differring strut scheme. The others they say show a Pfalz D.IV. I could not verify them by googling.

Do you have a better method?

Thank you!

Regards, RT

[richard B]

The first was an "experimental forerunner of the D XII , unofficially designated D XI" wrote Peter M. Grosz in "Profile Nr 199 : Pfalz D XII"

The second one was the D.4 (not D IV) the first Pfalz biplane single seat fighter : a failure .

[Brad]

Originally Posted by richard B

The first was an "experimental forerunner of the D XII , unofficially designated D XI" wrote Peter M. Grosz in "Profile Nr 199 : Pfalz D XII"

The second one was the D.4 (not D IV) the first Pfalz biplane single seat fighter : a failure .

Agreed on the first. I have seen pictures from another angle. You can tell by the 2 bay wings with balanced ailerons on the upper and the shape of the fin/rudder (identical to EARLY Pfalz DXII but changed after the first 150 or so aircraft.)


I don't know anything about the other 2 pictures, although the rudder on the 3rd pic looks VERY "Halberstadt-ish." Richard is probably correct though, he usually is.

[Froggy]

Bonsoir
Brad the two last photos are the same D4 aircraft seen in two différent angles

Bruno

[Romantic Technofreak]

Thank you for these answers.

Regards, RT