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The Albatros L102 (company designation) / Albatros Al 102 (RLM designation), was a German
trainer aircraft
A trainer is a class of aircraft designed specifically to facilitate flight training of pilots and aircrews. The use of a dedicated trainer aircraft with additional safety features—such as tandem flight controls, forgiving flight characteristi ...
of the 1930s. It was a
parasol-wing
A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes.
A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing con ...
landplane, seating the student
pilot
An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls. Some other aircrew members, such as navigators or flight engineers, are also considered aviators, because they a ...
and instructor in separate, open
cockpits. A
biplane floatplane version was also built as the Al 102W, with
strut-braced lower wings.
Variants
![Albatros_W_102_L'Aerophile_November_1932](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Albatros_W_102_L%27Aerophile_November_1932.jpg)
*L102L
:The landplane version with tailwheel undercarriage and parasol monoplane wing. Eight built.
* L102W
:Two examples built as biplane floatplanes, one of which was designated as the Focke-Wulf Fw 55W.
;Al 102L
:RLM designation for the L102L landplane
;Al 102W
:RLM designation for the L102W floatplane
Specifications (L102L)
Notes
References
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External links
German Aircraft between 1919-1945
{{RLM aircraft designations
Parasol-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
1930s German civil trainer aircraft
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