WOFF Screenshot of the Month, July - 'Meet the Fokkers!'

[33LIMA]

Strikefighters players at CombatAce have long had a 'Screenshot of the Month' thread, which showcases the many visual delights of Thirdwire's classic and prolific jet age combat flight sim. So, I thought to myself, maybe it's time we also had such a platform for the many and no less photogenic aircraft and settings of Wings Over Flanders Fields. What say you, shall we try this and see how it goes?

 

There's no rules, save that your screenshot must be taken in Wings over Flanders Fields (not OFF, please) with no post-capture editing or enhancement allowed, except cropping - we want to showcase the sim and the enjoyment we get from it, not our photo-editing skills. There's no prize and no formal winner will be declared, though visitors are encouraged to vote after a fashion by 'Liking' one or more of any screenshots they particularly fancy.

 

For the first thread, July 2016, the theme is 'Meet the Fokkers!' - aircraft designed by Anthony Fokker, of which there's a good few in this sim. So, what are you waiting for? Switches off, petrol on, and 'get some in'!

 

[Hauksbee]

"Meet the Fokkers". I love it. Just a sec...let me get my helmet and gloves.

[Olham]

Haha - wasn't that a film with Dustin Hofman? Which plane is he flying?

[Hauksbee]

Here we go: one of the easiest planes to take a good picture of. (second only to the Albatros.)

 

 

 

Edited July 15, 2016 by Hauksbee

[Hauksbee]

33LIMA: I'm taking the 'Fokker Request' to mean any Fokker and not just the D.VII. This Dr.1 is "The Yellow KId". Assuming that a flashy paint job is an invitation to come up and fight, I adopted the Yellow Kid as a mascot since the Kid is irreverent by his nature, and, to my eye, yellow is the color that can be seen at the longest distance.

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[33LIMA]

LoL! Fair enough, Hauksbee, there's nothing in the rules against fictional markings...but please tell me no real pilot flew that kite!!! It does look rather good, though, even if I almost hate to admit it!

 

As if the Red Baron/le Petit Rouge wasn't bad enough...the RFC/RAF now has to contend with the Yellow Kid!!!

Haha - wasn't that a film with Dustin Hofman? Which plane is he flying?

 

The Dustin Flugzeug Werke C.V?

[Hauksbee]

...but please tell me no real pilot flew that kite!!! It does look rather good, though, even if I almost hate to admit it!

Only flown by me. It does seem to be staggeringly effective against Allied fighters. There's a "WTF? Effect" that throws off their aim.

Edited July 16, 2016 by Hauksbee

[Olham]

Is that an American comic figure, the "Yellow Kid"?

Yellow looks good on the Dr.I !

[Hauksbee]

Is that an American comic figure, the "Yellow Kid"? Yellow looks good on the Dr.I !

Yes, that's the same 'Kid'. He ran in Joseph Pulitzers New York World from 1895 to 1898, and later in William Randolph Heart's San Francisco Examiner. That a bit before WWI, but everybody knew the Kid. (Calvin and Hobbs hasn't been in print for over 10 years) So I figured he'd still be current in the minds of WWI pilots. An all-yellow Dr.1 is very much out of character...but it is bold.

 

When are you going to post a Fokker for us, Olham? Or are there only Albatros's in you portfolio?

[Olham]

...are there only Albatros's in you portfolio?

 

Yes, I almost only make Albatros skins, and I fly WW1 sims only because of that aircraft.

It's all for the looks of it!

The Dr.I, or the Fokker D.VII are ugly compared to her.

 

I KNOW they were better fighters - but I'm only in it for the looks.

 

Kinda "vanity-war"... Beat them with beauty!

Edited July 16, 2016 by Olham

[Hauksbee]

I admire your dedication; the Alb certainly is the "Glamour Girl" of WWI. (If you can't overwhelm them with firepower, dazzle them with beauty!)

[33LIMA]

Not a lot of people know this, but Anthony Fokker used up so many wings building triplanes, that by the war's end he had a serious shortage. In fact the next design on his drawing board after the Fokker E.V/D.VIII illustrated below was for very fast, rotary-engined, propeller-driven tricycle...

 

[Hauksbee]

Not a lot of people know this, but Anthony Fokker used up so many wings building triplanes, that by the war's end he had a serious shortage. In fact the next design on his drawing board after the Fokker E.V/D.VIII illustrated below was for very fast, rotary-engined, propeller-driven tricycle.

(?) Wings, per se, are not a commodity. Wood is. Are you saying that Fokker drove Germany into a wood shortage?

 

(?) A tricycle Fokker? Do you have a pic?

[Olham]

Hauksbee, I guess LIMA made a joke. Triplane used so many wings, that a monoplane had to follow. Get it?

 

I admire your dedication; the Alb certainly is the "Glamour Girl" of WWI. (If you can't overwhelm them with firepower, dazzle them with beauty!)

 

Oh, the firepower of my girl is not what I'm worried about.

But she isn't the best dancer in the competition, with her German temper...

Edited July 17, 2016 by Olham

[Hauksbee]

Hauksbee, I guess LIMA made a joke. Triplane used so many wings, that a monoplane had to follow. Get it?

I waz always a little slower than the rest of the children.

[Olham]

Well, as a kid, she didn't perform bad at all - she could always compete with the others.

Then she grew older, but didn't get stronger. Her beauty still increased, though!

[Hauksbee]

A Winter Eindecker on a hot summer day. Let's see those pictures, guys. I'm running out of Fokkers.)

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[33LIMA]

Yes come on chaps, get posting! Doesn't have to be a different type of Fokker each time, there are plenty of different colour schemes available, especially now that the skin pack is free...here's Josef Mai's Fokker D.VIIf

 

[JimAttrill]

I should know this, but who flew the aircraft with the insignia LO!  Was it Udet? 

[JimAttrill]

To answer my own question, yes it was Ernst Udet. 

[Hauksbee]

To answer my own question, yes it was Ernst Udet. 

That'll cost you a Fokker pic.

[Olham]

Haha, that sounds like you also played those picture quartet games in America, Hauksbee?

 

To answer my own question, yes it was Ernst Udet. 

 

Yes, Udet had a fiancée named Eleonore - he nicknamed her "Lo". (He was always a bit short, wasn't he?)

"LO" was written on all his Jasta 37 Albatros D.V, the Fokker D.VII and also on the Siemens-Schuckert D.III or D.IV

(not sure which one he flew).

 

But you guys wanted Fokker pics.

 

  

 

 

 

 

Edited July 20, 2016 by Olham

[Hauksbee]

Here y' go: Ernst Udet and Elenore Zink. The marriage lasted about four years due to Ernst's 'party-animal' habits.

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[Olham]

Women - they want a hero, and when they get one, they don't like his habits! Tch!

[Hauksbee]

I'm sure it didn't help that he was a compulsive skirt-chaser, and he quickly got fat and bald.