Rugbyfan1972

While we are on the subject of WW1 aviation books, I have found an epub version of "open cockpit" on the kobo website this weekend. Now I just need to wait for "No Parachute" and "sopwith Scout 7309" to be released as epubs. Then they can join the following epubs I have already purchased:

Flying Fury

King of Airfighters

Racing Ace

Iron Man

Red Baron - The life and death of an ace

Autumn of Terror

Herman Goering Fighter Pilot

September Evening

Sagittarius Rising

Airway to the East 1918-1920

Aces of Jagdstaffel 17

Mannock: The life and death of Major Edward Mannock

Jasta Boelcke - The history of Jasta 2 1916-1918

RFC HQ 1914-18

Battle of Britain 1917 - The first heavy  bomber raids on England

Albatros DI-DII

Somme Success

Bloody April

Aces Falling

An Aviators field book

Immelmann The Eagle of Lille

Black Fokker Leader - Carl Degelow the first world wars last airfighter knight

Billy Bishop - Top Canadian Flying Ace

No Empty Chairs - the short and heroic lives of the young aviators who fought and died in the first world warThe Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War

Fall of the Red Baron - WW1 aerial tactics and the death of Richthofen

Recollections of the great war in the air

My Golden flying years - from france 1918, through iraq 1920 to the schneider trophy race of 1927

Wooden props and canvas wings - recollections and reflections of a WW1 pilot

Flying Horseman

Cavalry of the clouds - air war over europe 1914-1918

The flatpack bombers - the royal navy and the zeppelin menace

Albert Ball VC

Fire in the sky - the australian flyinc corps in WW1

Sopwith Pup aces of WW1

Julius Buckler - Malaula! The battle cry of jasta 17

British and Empire aces of WW1

Fighting the flying circus

The making of billy bishop - the first world war exploits of billy bishop vc

Surviing the skies - A night bomber pilot in the great war

Raymond Collishaw and the black flight

Hat in the ring - the birth of american air power in the great war

Balloon busting aces of WW1

DH2 v Albatros DI/DII - western front 1916

Open Cockpit

I have probably twice this many epubs that relate to WW1 in general.

The OFF LePrieurs are actually CFS Typhoon rockets, which is what makes them both ahistorical, and so much fun. The LePrieur was basically a glorified Guy Fawkes firework, and was superseded in late '16 by the much more effective incendiary ammo types used for the remainder of the war. But as Uncle Al used to note, they sure are fun!

Cheers,

Shredward

That would mean then that the rockets have 60lb warhead on them. If I remember correctly sometime ago a forumite mentioned that on a balloon busting mission, they got into a dogfight and accidentally fired their rockets while stood vertically on their tail, only to have the rockets descend and destroy them seconds later?

Not sure I would like piloting that aircraft, I have enough trouble flying the BE2 series with the observer in front of me (especially seeing where I am heading when landing). Also think of the drag the gunner position must have added to the flight characteristics of this aircraft?

Von Baur,

Having lost my mum on the 21st December 2012. I can relate very much to your post, as I am still every day thinking about mum, and expect to for the rest of my life, and how much I miss her (as does my dad, and her close relatives). Also I wish I had sat her down and committed her memories to paper, as she had such a good memory and being 78 had been evacuated during the war, and had rich stories to tell about that and life in London in the 1950's and 1960's.

To Von Baur (and this includes the rest of the forum), I am not trying to hijack your post, and I would be upset if people responded mainly to my post and ignored your initial post, as your pain must be far greater than mine. but your opening post has opened the gates to my pain forum wise.

HPW,

Yes I am interested in your excellent work continuing. I feel I now have a better balanced chance when fighting.

 

Damn, I need more absinthe. These are some of the worst ideas I've ever had. Check them out :).

BH,

Perhaps less absinthe - although if you do have more absinthe when skinning, please post the result(s). lol

Olham,

Have you tried asking this question at The Aerodrome" http://www.theaerodrome.com/index.php someone there may be able to give you an answer?

Or if you search the forum, the question you are asking may already have been asked

BH,

I remember seeing a similar photo to this in the flypast magazine a few years ago. If I remember correctly this be (2 or 12 variant or model number it was), was rigged up for one of the first airshows after the first world war to confuse and confound the crowd. Perhaps if they had used this during the war the crews flying them would have had more chance of getting home, after all if you were flying against them would you have been able to stop laughing long enough to shoot one down.

I think it was flown by one of the farnborough test pilots.

A truly bizarre creation, if anyone can find more specific details I would be interested in learning them.

Hauksbee,

How did you manage to copy the pictures from The Vintage Aviator website?

I tried left clicking to enlarge them and then right clicking to save image and it did not give me the option to save image.

My $00.02 is I don't put too much stock in "crazy weather." Okay, no stock.

 

I live in Florida; can't even tell we got all that rain last week. Maybe in a few very low lying areas, perhaps, but the undeniably overwhelming majority of the state is fine. Fine. Elsewhere, it's summer; it's always 100+ somewhere in US in the summer. There are always fires every year; some bigger, some smaller, many of them the result of arson. There are always storms. There are always tornadoes. There are always blizzards. There are always floods. There are always droughts. Always have been, too.

 

Only now, and this will be no revelation, there is 24/7 cable and internet "news" and blogs and forums and storm chasers and social media to "report" and one-up each other regarding every single drop of rain and clap of thunder on a worldwide basis. I'm typing these words in my office in Florida and I know people are going to read them on the other side of the US, in Europe, in Africa, in Scandanavia, within minutes. This is taken for granted today but even just twenty years ago, that was the stuff of Star Wars. Plus, nearly everybody today walks around with a phone capable of taking photographs and videos that can be transmitted to nearly anywhere on earth, or be made accessible to anyone on earth. Instead of us seeing a mention of one or two things a day on the evening news or in a daily newspaper, now we see "news" reports on a minute-by-minute basis, literally. "News" is also reported in present tense to lend urgency to the story; it's still "fresh" that way. Thus, everything seems to be happening at once. Coupled with the arguably short memories of many--at least Americans, who for instance fall for the same lines and platitudes during an election, and the election before that, and the election before that, yadda--this provides a sense of unprecedented "crazy" weather that must "mean something."

 

These various media outlets really think we're idiots, too. When it rains, they tell me to use an umbrella. When it's hot, they tell me to drink plenty of water and be careful when exercising outdoors. When there's lightning, they tell me to seek indoor shelter. When it's cold, they tell me to "bundle up." Really? No s**t...

 

Oh, and hey, Weather Channel? A few things:

 

1) Earthquakes are NOT weather. Neither are Tsunamis. Ever.

 

2) There is a new invention that lets you video hurricanes without having to send a camera crew out into the storm--it's called a window.

 

3) Sending "reporters" outside into a hurricane to tell us "it sure is windy out here" makes as much sense and is as informative as a "reporter" running into a burning building and telling us "it sure is hot and smoky in here." Again, no s**t...

 

Okay, rant over.

Jim,

I agree with you 100% on this, just one question:

What is your take on global warming? lol

I have now found and purchased the book in epub format fot £2.85.

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RugbyFan, I've a hunch you're referring to the Joseph Plumb Martin narrative:

 

A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier

 

An outstanding work, BTW.

 

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RAFL,

That is the book, thank you and also what a quick response - now I just have to find it in an epub format (no luck so far).

All,

I have been trying to find a book on the internet that was mentioned in a programme I saw on the American war of Indenpendence, the olnly problem is I can't remember the name of the book which is why I am asking for help.

I do remember the programme said the book was written by a man who had been a young soldier fighting on the american side, his age was 15-17 (I think) and his first name was Joe/Joseph (again I am not 100% sure of this), he wrote the book when he was an old man and it is well known in America as one of the finest if not the finest book written about that war.

If some kind soul could provide me with the title of the book and the name of the author I would be most grateful.

Olham,

In the early 1900 there would have probably been someone who was a carpenter in civilian life, and as such had an understanding of how to fit wooden poles/beams together to get the strongest structure.

Also the engine was probably relatively light compared to later aircraft engines (late 1920's and onwards).

I am speaking with some knowledge here as my dad's apprenticeship was as a master cabinet maker and he is able to look at a piece of wood and instinctively know where its strongest and weakest points are and how to cut it to retain the most strength.

Also the way that the frame is braced looks structurally strong to my fairly untrained eye.

Great idea Olham. Making backup drive "images" is an easy way to prevent loss of data (and the loss of hours or even days, spent re-installing everything, should your hard drive 'depart controlled flight')

 

These days, there are several free drive imaging products available (I have used Macrium Reflect click here many times without any problems). Also, Windows 7 itself has a drive image/restore functionality built in. It is not as flexible as some of the other means that are free, but it works, and is an 'integrated' MS product, FWIW.

Tamper,

Out of interest do you use the free one or one of the ones you have to pay for?

UKW,

I will be happy whenever WOFF arrives, as I know the devs will have tested the sim to death before we get a chance to buy it, and if by some chance it does need a patch shortly after it is released you can bet that it will be only for a minor fix (in the devs eyes), and something the community have not even noticed.

Tranquillo,

Good luck with your surgery, my thoughts will be with you - on the plus side the NHS menu is a great reason to start dieting (unless it has improved drastically from the '70s & 80's). Hopefully WOFF will come out just as you are up and about again.

Olham,

NHS stands for "National Health Service" and was set up in 1948 where everyone who is working pays a small percentage of their wage into a national fund and when you have to have surgery the national fund covers the cost of the surgery, it also pays some of the cost of medicines prescribed by your local doctors (you have to pay a percentage, at least in England). It basically means that in the UK we do not have to pay medical insurance like in the USA. I think that about covers the NHS, but if anyone can add anything else feel free.

Here's hoping he returns, he was a font of knowledge.

CaptSopwith,

Eindekker v Bristol Fighters, that must have been interesting? lol. Joking aside I know you meant Bristol Scouts.

I agree with you completely, however my flight simming goes back even further the the Amstrad CPC 464.

Also I can't wait to see what advances WOFF makes over BHAH.

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VP and Olham, it is not an Albatros, Halberstadt, Pfalz, or Roland of any kind. Nor is it a Fokker. Think about companies far more noted for producing bombers ... heavy bombers.

 

 

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RAFL,

You have got me stumped, I originally thought it was an AEG D1 or D6/7, but I am not sure if they made bombers. On a side note I had not realised how many different 2 seaters albatross made, nor how many AEG made. I would love to see a couple of those in a future phase of OFF if they are not already included in P4.

I look forward to someone putting us out of our misery and letting us know what the plane is.

I have to be very careful because when the aircraft comes out of warp it seems to be in a vertical dive which soon exceeds the aircraft max speed and causes damage.

 

How do I avoid this problem?

 

I don't remember having this problem when I ran OFF on my old pooter

Do you use auto trim vecause if you have auto trim enabled you will exit warp in a vertical dive.

This is a known problem with later patches and OFF. The solution if you use auto trim is to disable it before you enter warp.

Sceptre,

I as had problems with reinstalling OFF. After some digging around in windows 7 I discovered that when you uninstall it leaves a directory in the following location:

C:\Users\[your name]\appdata\roaming\microsoft\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields

After I had deleted that directory (after uninstalling OFF) and rebooting I was able to install and run OFF without any problems. Of course my problem related to the keyboard configuration, and not an error message when starting OFF.

They don't use" th" on numbers? What about Henry the VIII th ?

Carrick,

What RAFL means is that when we say (to use your example) Henry VIII we pronounce the "th" at the end, but when we write Henry VIII we do not put "th" at the end of it.

I hope that makes sense.

Re the SE5-SE5a thing, apparently the 150hp engine is likely not the distinguishing feature of an SE5, it's the more sharply-raked wingtips, in the slightly longer-span wings (with the less raked, more rectangular tips denoting SE5a, not a 200hp engine).

 

This is per 'Aeroplanes of the Royal Aircraft Factory' by PR Hare (Crowood, 1999), where, describing the early evolution of the SE, it's noted 'The Factory's drawings of the aircraft...with the shorter span wings [but still with the 150hp engine] bear the title S.E.5a, clearly suggesting that it was this feature, rather than engine power, which distinguished the two variants. However, the RFC's rigging notes, when eventually issued, were entitled 'SE5 - 150 hp Hispano-Suiza: SE5a - 200hp Hispano-Suiza' and since it was these documents rather than the production drawings which received the wider circulation, the latter, incorrect distinction has become widely accepted...despite the new drawings being issued as quickly as possible, it was too late to incorporate the amendment into the initial batch of twenty-five aircraft built by the Royal aircraft Factory and these were completed with the longer-span wings of the prototype, making them the only true SE5s.'

33Lima,

Thank you for that explanation, I had thought as you have pointed out that it was the difference between the wingtips that was the obvious distinguishing feature between the two variants, and that the engines were also uprated for all the SE5a's.

Did anyone else spot that they had the SE5a masquerading as the SE5, and also when was the 180hp SE5a produced. Correct me if I am wrong but I thought the SE5 was a 150hp aircraft and the SE5a 200hp.

I also agree it could have done with being a lot longer. Of course my ideal would be a programme that does not spend the first 15-30 mins explaining about how the war in the air evolved from 1914 and just dived in at say late 1916. I understand how programmes need to explain how it all started, but I just wish they would make programmes for the more advanced viewer and not keep going over the same information again and again in different programmes.

maybe a different type of wind sound or whatever.

 

Polovski,

Considering what Olham has suggested and the "differend type of wind sound" as you have suggested, perhaps a sound that mimics flatulence. lol