[WWI] A-H Albie

[jmikl2957 at iqmail.net]

I've been going over Datafile #19, Albatros D.III (OEF), and I've come across an item that stumps me.  There appears to be a tube that runs from the left side of the centerwing bottom down to the fuselage and then along it, where it enters near the pilot.  You can see this clearly on the center photo on page #14 and also in Ian Stair's 1/48 scale drawings on page #16.

At first I thought that this was a fuel line from an upperwing gravity tank but there doesn't appear to be one in Stair's drawings.  Also, why would a gravity tank fuel line run back toward the cockpit, where it enters at a point just below the windscreen?

Anyone have any idea what this is?  Has anyone tried to replicate this item on their Roden Alb.153 models?

                                            Mike Vice
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