Albatros B.I

The Albatros B.I, given the post-war company designation L.1, was a German military reconnaissance aircraft designed in 1913 and used in the First World War. It was a conventional two-seat biplane with the observer and the pilot in separate tandem cockpits; its wings were first three-bay and later changed to a two-bay, unstaggered layout, with the typical German aileron control cable system of the time. A floatplane version was developed as the Albatros W.I. Phönix Flugzeug-Werke in Vienna built it for the Austro-Hungarian aviation troops, and Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Romania, the Ottoman Empire and, after the war, Poland also flew it. It was withdrawn from front line service in 1915, though some served as trainers until the war ended, and the Phönix 20.01 prototype survives in a Vienna museum.