Bullethead 12 Posted October 11, 2009 All the fallen pilots keep flying their aircraft over the front. You just can't see them. When you see them one day - you have crossed that line... Oh Hell, I must have crossed that line a long, long time ago. I've been surrounded by ghosts since childhood, so I take that as normal. What bothers me, though, is when Elvis drops by every couple of months. The bastard cleans out my fridge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
itifonhom 6 Posted October 11, 2009 Well I use QC also but I have to say that while in QC I'm really a good dogfighter, in campaign it seems I bite the dust for no reason. Me alone in a Alb D2 against 3 N17 veterans in QC I win although bad peppered. 3 Albs D2 against 2 N17 in Campaign I'm the first to go down! itifonhom Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Olham 164 Posted October 11, 2009 Hahaha! Bullet, many people would gladly let him empty the fridge only if they could see him again. When you see the ghosts, you are lingeringon the threshhold, cause you have once been about to cross it, cause you where shot at or stabbed or near an explosin; you should have been dead by now, but you escaped. Now you can look into both worlds. That's from some dark fantasy book, no literature really, but I liked it. I have one such book by Dean Koontz (probably his only one I like): "Odd Thomas" That guy can see the dead, and Elvis often lingers around or waits for him in his car. He is mostly very sad and often cries. A funny book. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wels 2 Posted October 12, 2009 (edited) Hello, You're never alone. All the fallen pilots keep flying their aircraft over the front. You just can't see them. When you see them one day - you have crossed that line... This reminded me of the "forever circling patrol of aviators" ... just an animated cartoon film, but it sent some shivers down my spine when i saw it the first time: http://www.youtube.c...feature=related Be sure to watch until the end ... The pilot is then sent back to earth, but since he has almost crossed the line ... Greetings, Catfish Edited October 12, 2009 by Wels Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bullethead 12 Posted October 12, 2009 When you see the ghosts, you are lingeringon the threshhold, cause you have once been about to cross it, cause you where shot at or stabbed or near an explosin; you should have been dead by now, but you escaped. Doesn't that apply to us all? Surely everybody here has come within an RCH of having their tail of years snipped off at the buttocks more than once? I can't imagine anybody reaching even early middle age without more close calls can they can remember. Car wrecks, sports, drug and/or alcohol overdoses, freak accidents in daily life, you name it. Or maybe I've just had a rough life. Still, I think the reason I'm "on the threshold" is because of my Cajun grandma, who was as fey as they come. That's supposedly a generation-skipping thing and all. Plus, there was a bit of Louisiana voodoo surrounding my birth, or so I've been told. But as a rational, if often drunken, 21st Century man, I put it all down to parallel universes and other such things readily explainable by modern physics. If photons can bump shoulders across the boundaries of universes to create interference patterns when there's only 1 photon here, why can't your eyes, which react to photons, see into the other universes under the right condistions? Either that, or I hallucinate constantly, which is also readily explainable . This reminded me of the "forever circling patrol of aviators" ... just an animated cartoon film, but it sent some shivers down my spine when i saw it the first time HOLY CRAP!!!! Italian anime . Seriously, this is classic. And who would have put a bunch of Italian and Austro-Hungarian flyingboat fighters into that eternal circle, but somebody really into the obscurities of WW1. Damn, that was chilling! Thanks for sharing . Reminds me of a song..... An ol' cowpoke went ridin' out one dark an' windy day Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way When all at once a mighty herd of red-eyed steers he saw Tearin' through the ragged skies an' up a cloudy draw Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel A bolt of fear went through him as they thunderd 'cross the sky He saw the riders comin' hard an' heard their mournful cry Yippee yi oh! Yippee yi yay! Ghost riders in the sky Their faces gaunt, their eyes were blurred, their shirts all soaked with sweat They're ridin' hard to catch that herd by they ain't caught it yet 'Cause they've got to ride forever through that range up in the sky On horses snortin' fire. As they ride by hear their cry Yippee yi oh! Yippee yi yay! Ghost riders in the sky As the riders loped on by him he heard one call his name He said, "You wanna save your soul from Hell a-ridin' on our range? "Then cowboy change your ways right now or with us you will ride "Tryin' to catch the Devil's herd across these endless skies" Yippee yi oh! Yippee yi yay! Ghost riders in the sky Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Olham 164 Posted October 12, 2009 (edited) Wow, didn't know Porco Rosso (Red Pig?), and I must be getting old to post this one here - sheer kitsch and sob stuff - but when someone draws WW1 flying boats, I make an exception (Sob!) http://www.youtube.c...feature=related Edited October 12, 2009 by Olham Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bullethead 12 Posted October 12, 2009 but when someone draws WW1 flying boats, I make an exception (Sob!) Most of them were quite elegant, weren't they? There were a few abortions to be true, but nearly as many as on land. Hopefully, someday OFF will have these AH and Italian flyingboat fighters dueliing over the Adriatic. The "Otto Prohaska" series really hooked me on that. I was hoping Stumpjumper would soon have such available, but given his unfortunate accident, I'm afraid we'll have to wait a while longer . But that whole eternal ghostly circle of WW1 planes..... There were all kinds of things in there, even obscure Caudron types and Austrian bombers that only reached the prototype stage (although killing some test pilots). And in the vid you linked, the checking of the rounds for imperfections that might jam the guns, by coal-oil lamp no less. Whoever made this anime, despite the porcine main character, really knew something about WW1. I must find and buy the full thing in English, that I know. Who knows? It might be as good as Cowboy Bebop . Still.... DAMN, I will never look at a contrail the same way again. That's not condensation in the exhaust of a 747, it's all of everybody's DiD pilots and their victims. Creepy, eh? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Olham 164 Posted October 12, 2009 Yeah, but I like such stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Olham 164 Posted October 12, 2009 No wonder it's good. It by that Japanese animation artist Miyazaki, it seems. One one more carried by a rock song of the Foo Fighters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3M3rY5Y4LU&feature=related Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
