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von Hantelman - certainly an ace!; and 'Mick' Mannock was a pretty dab hand the time he was chasing around in this SE.

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Yes, this is von Hantelmann´s Fokker, but on 17 June 1918 was this Fokker D.VII borrowed by Kurt Wüsthoff. JG II engaged a group of S.E.5a's of No. 24 Squadron and Wüsthoff was seriously wounded in both legs, landing the D.VII behind enemy lines, taken prisoner.

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Brrrr (shudder)! Must I now take a bible with me on my flights?

Definitely this name will be known all along the front line soon.

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Olham i hope he last....

This pick is of the new damage pack flight i've just done.I've circledthe bullet holes.

I had to risk life and limb to get shot.

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Yeah, looks very good! I'm interested in that DM - do you fly it over the 1.32c patch?

 

Oh, and how is the SPAD VII?

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Yeah, looks very good! I'm interested in that DM - do you fly it over the 1.32c patch?

 

Oh, and how is the SPAD VII?

 

 

Yes mate i have patched 1.32c and it worked fine.Starting to like the spad it's a tough old bird.6 missions in with the new man and 5 claims so it's looking good.

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Up bright and early to find Fredrick Krieg of FFA23 assigned a patrol of the northern sectors. Got up into the clouds of a crisp September morning over Flanders only to lose sight of my flight. But shortly thereafter came upon a trio of BE2's running a recon. I slowly swung onto the tail of the trailing aircraft and let fly with several good volleys. They took almost no evasive action...and never jumped. Two more candles will burn in Blighty for it's lost sons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lou

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Still haven't found out, how to get better anti-aliasing. When I set it in the sim's graphic setup,

it seems to get lost again. I've chosen it in my ATI card's config, but it doesn't look as good as

your pics, Lou. Well anyway - here's from my latest fight with MFJ 1, against RNAS-1.

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Olham, I adjust my graphics card settings directly through the card's control panel, not the sim's, and I pick it as a global setting. Then I set up other graphics profiles for other programs if I need them. I have never lost my card settings for OFF by using this method. And from the looks of your pics Olham you really only need to get the anti-aliasing setting to stay up where you set it. Everything else looks very good.

 

Cheers!

 

Lou

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On the way home from another useless recon hop due to horrific weather, the 2 survivors of my 6 Jasta 13 escorts met 3 more Camels (I think we met about 15 total on this trip, plus some SPADs). Considering 4 of them had already died to save my flight, and being utterly bored with being just passive bait, I ordered my flight to attack. My last 2 escorts, however, were pretty good pilots and killed 2 of the Camels before my slow Hannover could arrive. And just as I was opening fire on the last one, a Jasta 13 pilot shot its wings off. I got a few hits but no credit.

 

Pitty--it looks in this pic like I got him :yes:

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Does the Hannover have a double tail elevator?

 

Yup. The biplane tail was to give the observer a better field of fire while still providing the same control authority and stabilization of a conventional tail, or so the story goes.

 

But in all actuality, the only thing the Hannover has better than the Fee is an ROC that lasts longer than 10,000 feet. Speed's about equal. The Hannover has a gun for the pilot but inferior roll rate, inferior turn rate, inferior acceleration, and inferior bomb load. OTOH, the Fee is a fighter, after all :biggrin:

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Thanks. Lou, and sorry, must have overlooked your above answer.

 

Bullet, the single seat fighter for you could be the SPAD. An incredible craft. I have already 5 claims

in 4 missions, one confirmed (the French seem to be faster there than the Germans).

And when you do all the right things, you should never be in real danger; the only thing that could

stop you is a good shooter with a deflection shot.

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Here's my latist project not quite finished yet.

SPAD XIII S.16546 ' Flag Bus'

Captain Reed Chambers

94th Aero Sqn USAS

Spring 1919

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