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Warm welcome over Britain.

German Hornets.

Midair collision. Thats bad!

With a little help from the almighty modders, this game is gorgeous Even when NV air defense makes me piss off the ground crew.

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Got a fun mission or campaign going? Tell us about it here! Pics/Vids are great, but plain old reports are too! I have a bunch of standard pilots that I run and have been since way back in Red Baron 1 when I was in college. Rother Nought is my standard RNAS guy who takes the Sopwith path through the war (or as far as he gets!) My first attempt with him ended in a shredded N11 wing, so here is try #2! Rother Nought C Sqn 1 Wing RNAS B flight Today we went up in support of the Strutters, which is absurd as they are much faster than us and always leave us behind. Anyway, Cleaver and I made our way to the front and tried to clear the area where the Sopwiths would be artillery spotting. I spied a brace of Eindeckers below us trying to come up to our level and moved to stay above them so we could strike if they got too close. This seemed a good idea until I noticed three more of the blighters to the south, at our level! Matters were made worse when the Sopwith decided to attack them instead of retreating! We immediately moved to intervene: I got credit for one of them with the pilot apparently killed, but the one I drove down with a dead engine the boys on the ground insisted on getting credit for, even though he was a glider long before he got down to where they can hit anything! Unfortunately, we lost Cleaver in the melee and one of the strutters was forced down with the observer, a kid named Thompson, killed. We need faster planes! Or the strutters need to stick to the plan!

Recon and fighter cover..

I can't wait for the Crusader, it is inevitable, but the time table is never accurate from Leatherneck. I can't wait to get their F4U-1D Corsair as well, which will be added the Korea server as a stand-in for the F4U-4. DCS keeps me busy enough that I very rarely fire up SF2. Sometimes I just feel like fighting in an F-4 or Century series aircraft. I have gotten VR to kind of work with VorpX, and unlike DCS World, VR runs with the fps maxed out for a fairly decent experience minus the fact that your head isn't really free to move around and the rear cockpit is not modeled. I usually fly DCS for 1 to 4 hours every night and sometimes for most of the weekend except for when I am sleeping, eating, or doing chores. That used to be my SF2 schedule before I had a PC that could run DCS well and the plane set expanded beyond the A-10, Ka-50, and P-51D. It seemed like the Fw190D9, UH-1, MiG-21, F-86, and MiG-15 all came out really close together, which kept me busy for quite some time. The DCS UH-1 experience in VR on the Vietnam server is fantastic. The UH-1 is currently a little too tough. It can sustain quite a few hits from rifles and machine guns. But that allows you to have more fun shooting/blowing things up than would be possible if it was realistic. I will still keep SF2 on my hard drive as long as it remains compatible. I hope TK is able to maintain compatibility over the years even if he never makes any other patches or content for the game.

While computer hardware can be goofy, Microsoft Windows is always goofy. Just a matter if you use the parts that are broken. In this case, they did something to a function everyone will notice. However, not everyone has the problem. Typical Windows.

BBC

According to this site it is a new kind of SATCOM antenna https://defence-blog.com/ukraine-anniversary-parade-to-unveil-new-generation-of-military-hardware/

Hug the centerline like you hug your woman... nice and tight.

Flew two missions, both of them relative milk runs but only got the debrief for the second one. Was tasked to hit the Transshipment south of Than Hoa. Seeing as it wasn't very far it was decided that we would forgo external fuel tanks for this mission and substitute ordnance instead. As it was only a pair of us, new guy ENS Bruning was chosen for this. He is easily the least skilled nugget and apparently barely qualified at every stage of pilot training. Word is that he was shunted off to A-1s on the basis that when he inevitably got in over his head beyond hope of recovery, he wouldn't take a multi million dollar jet with him. Apparently, even the Rotorheads kept him away from their little club. So off we went. One thing for sure, Bruning did need more time than usual to form up and was behind the aircraft when we quit circling about 10 miles from the IP but obviously he learned something in training since his drop was pure devastation. I added something with my load but it was a mere pittance as target was well worked over even before my bombs added to the mayhem below. Groundfire was steady high above on top and negligible during the dive. Was warmer heading back to the beach but nothing all that serious. The Vihn strike was like a training mission. Scarce AAA and we barely spent time over the beach. That one was a walk in the park.

Sidewinders slithering by around...

John Rockitt 94th Aero September 1918 Somewhere in France... I am not even sure where we are stationed. I just got back from the hospital again. We tangled with a flight of Fokkers and everything was going fine until I stumbled into the unexpected edge of a cloud. Soon, I had no idea where I was going, but the huns stayed right with me and clipped me as I came out. But I'm back now, and need to have a bite before I figure out where l am...

Well S**t...I give up on the wingman protection program. Got Leibermann through 20 missions and he runs head on into a DVII. Just too much work and with my own bacon hanging out there to boot.

Blimey m8, my win 10 is right up to date & I'm having no issues here..............maybe I should'nt have said that..

Panavia Tempest F.3 - No.229 Operational Conversion Unit, Royal Air Force, 1991

Excellent re-paints, thanks a lot!

I like to fly and fight in the areas where the skins I'm working on are active. Right now I'm with the 94th Aero in May 1918, flying against Jasta2 64w, 65 and Kest 1, which I am working on now. I took down an old DV still in use by Kest 1 this morning. Shot his wings off. Doing this serves an additional purpose in that I get to see whether the Sim is using the skins when you are not flying in the outfit you made them for. In this case I got to see that the Sim was using mixed aircraft for Kest 1, the DV and DVa together in the same flight.

By the way, I just checked the downloads section here and the dozens of WWI aviation digital books I brought together over a decade ago for folks are still available via the following link: WWI Aviation Books downloads Enjoy!

I heard my name mentioned - twice! A lot of excellent recommendations here already, folks. Allow me to add a few more. About WWI in general: "A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914 to 1918", G.J. Meyer "The War That Ended Peace", Margaret MacMillan For some of the oft overlooked air services: "The Belgian Air Service in the First World War", Walter M. Pieters "Capronis, Farmans, and Sias: U.S. Army Aviation Training and Combat in Italy with Fiorello LaGuardia 1917-1918 ", Jack B. Hilliard "Italian Aces of World War I and their Aircraft", Roberto Gentilli, Antonio Iozzi, Paolo Varriale "The Imperial Russian Air Service, Famous Pilots and Aircraft of World War One", Alan Durkota Concerning the German side of things: "Handbook of German Military and Naval Aviation 1918" "Schlachtflieger! Germany and the Origins of Air/Ground Support 1916-1918", Rick Duiven and Dan-San Abbott "German Air Power in World War 1", John H. Morrow, Jr. "Winged Mars, Volume II: The German Air Weapon 1914-1916", John R. Cuneo On the defense of Britain against the German Zeppelin and heavy bomber raids: "The Air Defence of Britain 1914-1918", Christopher Cole and E.F. Cheeseman "The Sky On Fire: The First Battle of Britain", Raymond H. Fredette For some British insight on seaplane operations: "The Spider Web", T.D. Hallam "The Story of a North Sea Air Station", C.F. Snowden Gamble Concerning the Aussies: "The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War 1914-1918", F.M. Cutlack From the British perspective: "Tumult In The Clouds: The British Experience of the War in the Air 1914-1918", Nigel Steel and Peter Hart "The War in the Air", Raleigh and Jones, (a massive nine-volume read) On the French/U.S. air services: "The Lafayette Flying Corps", James Hall and Charles Nordhoff "The U.S. Air Service in World War I", Maurer Maurer There are of course many, many, many other great reads on the subject. Also, I too prefer the first hand accounts of the pilots, be it their recollections, diaries, and/or letters home. Those put you right there in it.