Albatros First Florida Flight

Fantasy of Flight owner Kermit Weeks takes his newlyacquired Albatros D. Va for its first flight since arriving in Florida. Built by Peter Jackson s The Vintage Aviator, Ltd. in New Zealand, Kermit got a chance to fly the plane down there before it was crated up for shipping to the US. This was its first flight in the US and very likely the first flight of any Albatros in the US in a very long time Though the plane uses hard rubber mockups for machine guns, the engine is in fact an authentic Merc