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Is it just me, but is WOFF overpriced? I, for one, shall be boycotting WOFF until the price is reduced by at least £10. The asking price is way overpriced IMHO and an insult to us WW1 aviation buffs.

I just wanted to say a big thank you to Pol & the dev team for making Phase 3 and HitR! Fast hassle-free overseas delivery too and no hidden charges, it's one of the best things I ever bought! Now about P4... I used to tinker with the Film Replay utility for hours in Rowan's 'Dawn Patrol' sim/interactive book... and still do sometimes running it in DosBox! So, maybe we could have something like this? Yes, I know we have Fraps and I use it, but I think you know what I mean. Of course, sometimes it would be useful to view our flights in slo-mo detail back in the hangar after a flight. From the perspective of any aircraft or ground object, at any angle, at any time. Something like in Rise of Flight or Falcon's 'black box' tacts system. Not to mention the fantastic movies we could be making if we had this. Or just to record our missions for posterity. I know it's a legacy CFS3 issue... so I might just be wishful thinking here... Just letting you know I'm loving Phase 3 + HitR and that would be my ONE wish for P4. Best wishes and all the best to you!

Hello to you all, hope you are doing well. This question has been on my mind for a couple of years now. Perhaps one of you chaps here might know the answer? Well, we have seen a few films on WWI and perhaps read a few books and manuals, but what about audiobooks? The only one I have found so far is the BBC production of All Quiet on the Western Front and even that isn't about pilots of course, so, about all I can really do at the moment is to record the soundtrack of The Blue Max movie or something similar and listen to it while on the go. Speaking of the Blue Max, yes I have the score by Jerry Goldsmith and I can't recommend it highly enough. Almost better than Wagner! To be clear though, I'm not looking for music, my ideal audiobook would be something along the lines of Lothar-Gunther Buchheim's 'Das Boot' but from the perspective of a German WWI pilot! Or even British, I'm not fussy like that! But... I'm thinking this book has yet to be written? By the way, I absolutely LOVED the "pilot interviews" in OFF! Even something like that in a non-fiction audiobook documentary would be very welcome to listen to while on the go! Danke!

OFF newbie here from England. Best wishes for a Happy 4th to all Americans! Spirit of '76 forever! Oh by the way, I should say that my best wishes are only for those Americans who actually know why the 4th is celebrated! You see, I heard some random Americans on the street interviewed on talk radio the other day and not ONE of them knew their own history! Some actually thought that it was to celebrate Christopher Columbus' landing!!!! It was scary... very scary. Oh well, I haven't seen any evidence of those particular dumbed-down-dummkopfs on this forum yet so it's all good! Cheers and God Bless America!

Yes! Now we're getting somewhere! Danke, Von Paulus! Thank you so much sir! I'll be adding these to my iPod as soon as I can! Joshua Levine's On a Wing and a Prayer looks like the first one I'll get, then I'll get the rest. First you struck gold with BBC Wings and now this! You sir are a true ACE! It seems a pity that we do seem to have a definite lack of WWI-themed works of fiction though... I mean we have quite a few WWII-based books (the Sven Hassel books come to mind) but WWI? Hm... Thanks again for the links! For sure my friend. My iPod tends to have more audiobooks/podcasts on it than music! Even pdf books and manuals take up more space on it for me nowadays. But what I did do recently was make a nice compilation of WWI-themed music such as the Tipperrary song, Pack up your Troubles, Goodbye-ee... all those um.. "classics" heh! I sort of mix it in with some WWII "Batle of Britain" stuff lately too, perhaps some Al Bowly, Nowel Coward, George Formby, the Comedian Harmonists and Marlene Dietrich... perhaps some old radio BBC or even "Lord Haw Haw" broadcasts make an interesting listen to too eh... With an iPod on it's little dock to play outside in the sun it makes a nice replacement for an old style Gramophone/Radio to sip Pimms to! Or doing carpentry work to outside... certain scenes from the film "Murphy's War" spring to mind... Cheers chaps!

Thanks for the free aviation books but I've already read them. I only mentioned 'Das Boot' as it's one of my favourite audiobooks, narrated by Gordon Dulieu. One of the classics. If you don't already own it I can't recommend it highly enough. Then, we have Bernard Cornwell's 'Sharpe' series of audiobooks, wonderfully narrated by William Gaminara. The various Tom Clancy audiobooks... the Frederick Forsyth and Jack Higgins audiobooks... the Dan Brown audiobooks... Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of audiobooks narrated by Nigel Planer... the Michael Crichton audiobooks... The Complete Shakespeare audiobooks... the H.P. Lovecraft audiobooks... John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667)... a nice little BBC play called 'Aliens in the mind' featuring Peter Cushing and Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone reads Edgar Allen Poe, Spike Milligan reads 'Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall' and my family especially likes the Harry Potter audiobook series but I'm not really a fan of this. In fact I'm not really a fan of "recent" books in general. I tend to like reading things that were made in the previous century (and better still, before that!). Same goes for film. Well, I think that besides this small list, I'm guessing that possibly one or two other audiobooks have been made at some point in the past... that is, besides the Holy Bible? Indeed, are you absolutely sure the Bible is available in audiobook form? Is it available on iTunes? I'm guessing it must be more than a couple of tapes or CD's long and narrated by Charlton Heston? I'm just looking for WWI-themed audiobooks right now, something I might buy from Amazon to listen to. Thanks anyway, I'll keep looking.

Thank you! I just found a small clip on Youtube and I DO vaguely remember it! Quite young at the time... cant wait to watch it again! Wings, Episode 8

Found it! Wings - Series 1-2 DVD [1977] on Amazon and ordered, should be watching it in a couple of days! From the reviews it seems I'm going to like this. Sorry if you already knew about this guys and if it's old news, but finding this just made my day/week/month/year!!!! Good to meet a fellow Amiga KotS flyer! Nice one Hellshade. Funny enough it was the first sim I ever played via two-player dual-Amiga setup, I think it was via "null-modem cable" link-up?! Haha great fun! Well I have some setting-up (and flying this sim!) to do and hope to catch you on the forums again sometime. Cheers to you all!

Bang on! I remember watching Bladerunner for the first time before I even knew who Rutger was and thought to myself he looked like MvR! Just think how great that unmade film based on MvR's autobiography 'Der rote Kampfflieger' would've been... you are so right. Like tears in the rain... time to die... Anyway, Slackbladder here sir! OFF newbie and all that. How are you Lord Flashheart? I just bought this fine sim and was setting it up and testing it out when I saw this topic and thought I'd say hello! Actually I have a question that I think maybe you or one of the old aces here might be able to help me with... Well I think most of you will have already seen these over the years... Wings (1927) Hell's Angels (1930) The Dawn Patrol (1930) The Dawn Patrol (1938) The Blue Max (1966) Von Richthofen and Brown (1971) Aces High (1976) Flyboys (2006) Der Rote Baron (2008) My question... has anyone here seen, or better yet, know where I can get hold of a BBCTV series from the 70's called "Wings"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164305/ I never saw it... or at least I don't think so unless I saw it again... Tim Woodward would be good to see but when I saw it had David Troughton in it I knew I just HAVE to see this! I thought he was fantastic as Wellington from the first series of 'Sharpe'. Speaking of Wings... I think I will admit that I spent/wasted many an hour playing said game on the Amiga a few years ago... beaten only in flying hours (more like months) by Knights of the Sky... I think... now I have finally got hold of OFF Phase 3 + HitR I think I might possibly beat my "personal best" of sitting on my rear staring at a screen whilst wearing black leather motorcycle/flying goggles... funny enough those goggles are actually helping... with the largish floor-standing fan in front of me blowing full blast to 1. keep cool and 2. simulate a prop... without the goggles my eyes hurt from the airflow! Best wishes chaps!