Albatros L.71

The Albatros L.71 was a two-seat, single-engine pusher biplane built in Germany in the 1920s. Flight magazine described it as a flying boat on wheels, because in the 1920s such aircraft were almost the only modern pusher biplanes. Its most unusual feature was extreme stagger, introduced to optimise the view from each of the tandem cockpits. A 55 horsepower Siemens-Halske Sh 10 five-cylinder radial engine was mounted in pusher configuration, faired into the trailing edge of the upper wing. The L.71 was in flight testing by late January 1926, and two were built, with a published top speed of 125 kilometres per hour.