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 | | Complaints of poor lateral control, particularly on landing, led to the addition of ailerons on the lower wings connected to those on the upper wing by a strut. |
 | | Built in numbers, and arriving at the Front in April, 1917, the G.IVs were to carry out several raids on London before defenses improved and the burgeoning weight of the aircraft equipment reduced attack altitude. |
 | | By September 1917, the brilliant Hauptmann Brandenburg, leader of the main bombing squadron, Kagohl 3, was forced to reduce the operations of the Gothas to night missions only. |
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