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Introducing..... Sergent Simon Charles Grace, he's actually an Englishman, born in Liverpool in 1892. After High School he learns mechanics and works at a car workshop. He is all set to join the Royal Engineers in 1910 but is caught up in a stink when he is suspected of voicing support for Irish home rule. His joining up is cancelled and he is ostracised from his job. He ends up travelling Europe, spending time in Amsterdam, Köln and Paris before ending up in Marseille in 1912. Whilst there he meets up and befriends an American and both decide to join the French Foreign Legion. He serves in Africa through 1913 and into 1914 reaching the rank of Caporal. When the war starts, his company is sent to Algiers. He is a good soldier and is made Sergent in January 1915. In March 1915 he applies to join the Service Aéronautique and is accepted. After training he is assigned to Escadrille C9, flying the Caudron G4 joining on 12th November 1915. This is his story...........

I´m happy to announce the Fiat / Aeritalia G.91Y! The mod is still work in progress, so no release date is known. We will let you know if we know a release date. The mod still needs a lot of work. Mostly in EFM & Cockpit CREDITS ********** Original 3D Model (Cockpit & Aircraft) Enrico Gennari ( @ErikGen ) Modellierung, Animationen for DCS - cdpkobra VSN_G.91Y Mod - cdpkobra RoughMet & Normal Map Dateien - Soulfreak psd template - Enrico Gennari, Urbi & Soulfreak

November continue... A first encounter with Fokker EIIIs! Although Henri and Huillier claimed one,both rejected! Mon Dieu! Results are seen.The bird just limped home!

November Yet Henri's second victory!

First of all, condolences to Albert. As Paroni said, it is especially painful to lose a pilot so early after having invested in an excellent biography for him. Still, I am really looking forward to seeing your new man very soon. Albrecht and Seb – congratulations to both of you on getting the first DiD Campaign visit from the Gong Fairy. The decorations were both richly deserved. Your men have come out of the corner looking to win by a knockout. Paroni – I appreciate the recognition that we have tried to make gathering victories a bit more difficult in this campaign. But with so many talented WOFF veterans, that will be a difficult target to hit.

Congratulations to the award winners, very well deserved. I'll be starting a new chap shortly.

. ATTENTION! His Majesty King George V hereby confers the following honour: A grateful people thank you for your service and loyalty. .

. ATTENTION! Le Ministre de la guerre, République Française, wishes to present an award to the following individual: The people of France thank you sincerely for your courageous actions. .

If the Lewis worked for Albert Ball, it can't be all bad! My absolute favorite of the Nieuports - apart from the underrated N28 - is the 17 Bis with the SE5a-esque hybrid Vickers/Lewis setup. Dogfights in that plane feel like catching enemies with a pair of pinchers, and I like the ability to do damage along a vertical line (hitting the tail & top wing together, or engine & top wing together) rather than the horizontal path of the twin Vickers setup.

Oh well, just let me organize the files the file

Raine - It was a shame as Kenneth must have been due to get a Fee soon. As it is, Leo has an Eindecker EI, there also seem to be a lot of Nieuports about already in the north of Flanders, so it is going to be very tough. As for Hawkwood, a change of scene for him with his move but it seems to be tough going wherever they are, especially for Observers it seems. Paroni - Henri keeps battling away. Those C types are no pushovers but at least it was the aircraft getting hit. It's all about positioning, staying below the tail and popping up to get some shots in, but not too much. Albrecht - Yes firing from the Nupes takes practice, but if you can master it I'd sooner fly the Lewis armed N17 then the early synchronised one with it's "putt, putt, putt" rate of fire.

November 5 Henri: It would be a routine flight.A lonely Aviatik over Vimy ridge.When i get a good position ,enemy opened fire!My machine got so many hits ,i had to break away from the fight. Jacques counted 72 bullets of my machine.The engine only two cylinders written off. November 6 Henri: Our squadron has now only three fully functional Nieuport. With them we spotted Aviatik's over St. Vith.All drums spend but good results too! Huillier was my witness and now is one Boche less!

Still somehow succeed with AviatikB1 because no rear gunner. Aviatik C give no mercy 50m distance!

Agreed that Lewis drums are finished way too soon!Aiming is also really hard. When is absolutely sure hits,the risk of collision is very high!

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It seems easy now - but just wait until the Germans fly literally anything in my sector that isn't an Aviatik! I haven't so much as seen a single Eindecker yet, and I'm dreading the Rolands, the Halberstadts, not to mention the Albatros fighters. My pilot's current situation also happens to play to my particular strengths. I've played as a lot of RNAS pilots who started out in the Nieuport 10's and Nieuport 11's, and I spent weeks - maybe even months - practicing how to aim with that wing-mounted Lewis gun. I had maybe 10% accuracy on the wing-mounted Lewis's at first, and now I'm at around 30-40%. So now on average, a 47-round drum will give me ~15-20 direct hits right at the engine. (Little rough on the math, whatever). If you can do that on a consistent basis without getting hit by rear gunners too much, AND if you can keep a good altitude while doing it, then it's not that difficult to take down those Aviatik two-seaters. The Aviatiks just don't put up much of a fight compared to literally anything else the Germans fly. It's a very favorable matchup at the moment. But over the next year, German aircraft gets a lot better while my pilot's aircraft is only going to move ahead marginally. I'm expecting 1916 to get really ugly.

Albrecht – Let me second TWK’s compliments about the artistic editing of your screenshots. Jean-Fidele had a very close call with that fragile Nieuport, but then teamed up with Callinet to set the skies on fire! Epower and I did our best to make confirmed claims more difficult in this campaign, then your man comes along and makes it look like a pushover. Albert – Losing Hardie had to be a real punch in the gut. He was doing extremely well. Still, pushing ahead with a hearty welcome to Vzfw Doll. Now we get to see what an Eindekker jockey can do. Congratulations on your first confirmed victory. MFair – It was a real loss to see Captain Goon go so soon. As you said, now the war is getting personal. Hasse – I am thoroughly enjoying Auguste’s story. Whenever I read about changing the magazines on the early Nieuports, I know that if I were there, it would be 47 rounds and then time to go home. Seb – Please tell me you were working up a grisly revenge story for that Ackers fellow. Meanwhile, Andrews has become the pride of the Royal Navy. Brilliant work! Paroni – Henri is surviving in difficult times. I love the photographs you have found to go with his story. War Journal – Sergeant David Armstrong Hawkwood 4 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps Allonville, France Part 8 It’s time to catch up with my journal, which has been left by the wayside for some weeks now. The latter half of October passed without any incidents of note. In fact, I have begun to feel more like a guard on the Metropolitan Line then the intrepid aviator I imagined becoming. “All aboard! This train for Albert, Courcelette, Martinpuich, Montaubin, and Darkest Hunland. Show your ticket please sir.” Just read my last entry and remembered poor Mr Perkins. He was to go up with me a second time, but I was running a bit of a fever and was given the day off. He flew instead with a new officer who stalled his machine just after takeoff. Mr Perkins had a ripping good crash and has been away for a few weeks getting fitted for a new set of Army teeth. In his place I played rickshaw wallah to Second Lieutenant Barnett, who insists it’s really rather a lovely war and that we are lucky because we have better access to hot water then one did at Eton. He is not really a bad fellow at all. He makes a point of getting out to the sheds ten minutes earlier than Mr Osborne did and he gives me a very thorough account of our orders. He also likes to take short flips to a nearby marsh where we have several old wings laid out as gunnery targets. It has been reassuring to see that he takes that part of his job seriously. I have yet to encounter one of the Fokker monoplanes but that day cannot be far off. On 7 November 1915, the squadron relocated to Allonville, about three miles northeast of Amiens. The aerodrome is circled about by a horseshoe-shaped wood. The ground is level and dry. There are only a few wooden huts, and Major Todd has decreed that they will be used for now as the squadron office and the three messes. Sergeant Major Parson warned the warrant officers and sergeants to be on their best behaviour as our mess would at least temporarily be next door to the officers on one side and the ORs on the other. He confided that he had every faith that his warning was unnecessary for us but gleefully informed us that the same order had been strictly laid down by the major for the officers. A new Armstrong heart has gone up to house squadron stores. Ned Buckley and I have erected our canvas pleasure dome and set it up exactly as before. I must get a few hours away now that we are walking distance from Amiens and the little English bookstore I found on my visit there last month. I have finished reading the Iliad and feel a bit guilty that I did not enjoy it more. Perhaps it was because I laid on my cot thinking what silly sods they were to get bogged down in a siege for ten years – and then the rumble of the guns reminds me of our present situation and I wonder if those same Greek gods are perhaps interfering in our affairs to this day. I suppose that is what happens when you have too many gods and not enough honest work for them all. On 12 November 1915, Mr Barnett went up with another pilot and was wounded in the leg by a bit of Archie shrapnel. I now have yet another observer, Second Lieutenant Clapp. You can imagine the fun the ack emmas are having with that one.

I thought we had Rafales????? Okay fine...we'll do it the old fashioned way!!!!!

Sometimes is shooting at short distance not such a good idea.

Drones ;) AQM-37A Jayhawk Targetdrones Just a little sideproject to keep me motivated. AQM-37-model made by me with Blender. Inspired by > this < picture.

They're a little............perturbed at first Now, they're positively pissed,,,,,

Rather unfriendly types when all I wanted to do was get outta the area. The cluster bombs weren't even mine...

Think I joined when someone posted about Biohaz on C5 20 years..

I remember the transition from Biohaz to CombatAce