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Great news...Thanks!!!

I check every day, too...but not actual flying for me for some time now (in any sim)... My laptop broke down, I now have repaired it, but had to reformat and lost everything. I didn't reinstall OFF waiting for WOFF, but it seems to take ages to be finished and released! Hey, MudWasp48... you said the WOFF video, there are 4 of them out there...

I'll too go with rjw for a 11/11/2013, release... So very close to my birthday as well, would make a perfect gift!

You mean your own shortcut icons? http://www.convertico.com/

And a bonus vid... Insane low pass during Navy-Air Force joint excersise in the Aegean (cell phone recording)...

Ha-ha, I know... As said in one of my previous posts Andravida is the home of the modernised Phantoms and the Gun Tactics School (SOT). I have a friend (former school-mate) that serves as a Major in one of the 2 Squadrons based there (338 Fighter Bomber) We've passed forty so no much flying for him any more, but still... Here is a video celebrating the 60 years of the Sqn (1952-2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cZDVSuMWIGM

Thanks Derk, I posted the pics unedited... BTW, here is a HD version of the above video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ULgwL7ilwaI#t=30s

Hey Dimus, I have friends in Ithaki and have spent many summers there... (my friend's place is in Levki). I've also worked there a few years ago, restoring a kind of famous, Icon of Christ, in Vathy... (attributed to el Greco, according to the wild imagination of the local ecclesiastic authorities! ) I've born in Patras but my father's side origins are from Kefalonia, as a matter of fact the lights of my granfather's village (Komitata) are easily seen from Ithaki. Anyway, Olham, I found a HD panoramic shot of the the Red Arrows looping in formation over Andravida Base (you can see Fantoms parked outside the hangars)

The performance was absolutely stunning! About the weather, it's rather warm here but kind of windy and clowdy the last days (raining Sahara dust frequently)... In Greece they are based in Andravida Base, which is the home of the modernised Fantoms of the HAF, along with the Greek-Hellenic Top Gun equivalent school (SOT=Gun Tactics School). The last couple of months were based in Acrotiri, Cyprus, practicing and prepearing for their summer tour. I don't know when they are leaving... May be it's worth a trip over there to watch their practice... It's just a bit over half an hour driving from Patras. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RnhwfqfjT9s

The performance was absolutely stunning! About the weather, it's rather warm here but kind of windy and clowdy the last days (raining Sahara dust frequently)... The Red Arrows are flying the Bae Hawk. In Greece they are based in Andravida Base, which is the home of the modernised Fantoms of the HAF, along with the Greek Top Gun equivalent school. The last couple of months were based in Acrotiri, Cyprus, practicing and prepearing for their summer tour. I don't know when they are leaving... May be it's worth a trip over there to watch their practice... It's just a bit over half an hour driving from Patras. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ULgwL7ilwaI#! EDIT: I linked the video to the HD version.

I had the priviledge, earlier this afternoon, to watch a fantastic, breathtaking, Red Arrows' show from my very balcony, in my hometown Patras, Greece! These lame cell phone pictures can't describe the glorious performance of those RAF boys... Only if they haven't brought their British weather with them!

The canopy and windshield is not the original "rounded" one. This is a E-4 style canopy there...(could have been retrofitted) but still is not correct... The central bar on the canopy is a feature that was issued with the G model. In the E and F models there were just overlaping plexiglass windows. You should probably make the "bar" kind of transparent to look OK. (Should do it to your upcoming E4 as well) PS:Please don't get me wrong, I also find the bump mapping on the canopy and windshield a bit overdone...

Here is mine: elephant.xml I have Olham's too: Olham.xml (I don't think he'd mind sharing)

I envy you... I checked mine and the reading says 5.5... I desperately need upgrade.

Looks fantastic, Ian!

I don't think the D.III(OAW) is missing from OFF... Check Jasta 10 or 28w from July '17. The D.III early and D.III Johannisthal is the same plane, actually... (Do you mean central-off set radiator distinction?) The D.V uprated (lower wing reinforcement-Merc.D.IIIa engine) is not used properly in OFF. Sould be issued from late 1917 along with the D.Va issue. With or without headrests the planes used in the second half of 1917 were common D.V-s...

No, it's a Mod for IL-2...

The pilot posing on that SE5a pic (in the site posted by Olham) is Pour Le Merite holder and Jasta 12 Kommandeur, Adolf Ritter von Tutschek. He is wearing the full flight gear (Sidcot suit and leather cap) of the British pilot too. Here is he with his black Albatros D.III, upon his appointment as CO of Jasta 12 (from Jasta 2 Boelcke) again wearing captured British flight gear! P.S. Wellcome aboard OldSimmer!

OFF portrays Jasta 78b's generic Albatros D.Va with a brownish grey metal primer (OAW) and black spinner. In WW site there is a couple of photos of Michael Sigmann's plane (an OAW D.Va) from a Jasta 78 line up. The parts of the other planes visible in the pics do not suggest the use of a Jasta identification marking, the sample is too small to be definitive, anyway... PS: Found the full version of the first line up photo, featuring a mix of Albatros D.III (OAW) and D.Va (OAW) not in high so resolution unfortunately... (scanned from Windsock Datafile 03)

Jasta 29 was among the few Jastas that did't have an overall applied unit marking, only individual pilot identification markings, including the black trimmed in white numerals and letters you mention, Dej. Here is the photo you're asking for: PS: Jasta 15 was among the units with no distinctive unit markings except form pilot's individual identification, before the 'staffel swap' with Jasta 18. PS: Jasta 35b is question marked in Olham's list but it had a distinctive marking: diagonal white bands on upper wing repeated in black on lower wings undersides.

No 12 is painted on the vertical stabilizer of that D.III (OAW) (it's obscured by the WW watermark on Olham's picture) Here is the close up: (lower left corner, again underneath www.wingnutwings.com)