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Great pics Olham, thanks for sharing Sir. I am going to have to try my hand at painting an Alb soon, they are such a sweet-looking bird. Cheers! Lou

Welcome aboard Stiffy. If you loved RB3D you are REALLY going to love OFF BHaH. BTW, with the system you outlined you should be able to push 3's on most of your settings, with plane realism at 5, and it will look very, very nice at those settings. Of course every system is different so you will have to tweak to find the best for yours. See you in the virtual skies. Cheers! Lou

. My pleasure Red-Dog. This has been a learning experience for me as well, as are most things it seems. Cheers! Lou

There you go Rooster, as is obvious from the link posted by Red-Dog you are correct Sir. The pic was of the trigger motor for the C.C. Gear system. Well done Sir and two more points for you. Here are the standings after the last Wild Card photo: Olham, 28 points Dej, 21 points Red-Dog, 20 points Rickitycrate, 20 points Bullethead, 5 points Duce Lewis, 5 points Luftace, 5 points Burning Beard, 4 points Rooster89, 4 points Check Six, 2 points rhythalion, 2 points JohnGresham, 1 point Shrikehawk, 1 point TonyO, 1 point zoomzoom, 1 point The final set, yes the FINAL set, of photos will be posted soon, so be watchful. Cheers! Lou

hee, hee...you're funny zoomzoom. Not remotely close to the correct answer, but funny. Olham, it is not the synchronizer gear as used by Fokker, nor was this item first used on the EIII. Cheers! Lou

DING DING DING !!! WILD CARD PHOTO ! The first to correctly identify the item shown in the picture and the aircraft type it was first used in production service on will be awarded 2 bonus points. You must be spot on with both answers to win. Good Luck! .

Outstanding Rooster89 and Rickitycrate, I really thought this one would be harder than that. Shows what I know. I do know this: Rickitycrate, your timing today has been doing you no favors at all. Your planets must be waaaay out of alignment. We have a new contestant on the board with his first 2 points. Congrats Rooster89. And the standings after this Wild Card photo are now: Olham, 28 points Dej, 21 points Red-Dog, 20 points Rickitycrate, 20 points Bullethead, 5 points Duce Lewis, 5 points Luftace, 5 points Burning Beard, 4 points Check Six, 2 points rhythalion, 2 points Rooster89, 2 points JohnGresham, 1 point Shrikehawk, 1 point TonyO, 1 point zoomzoom, 1 point Cheers! Lou

. Wish I could have been there. Great pics Axgrinder, thanks for sharing Sir. Cheers! Lou

Yuppers, you are correct Hellshade. And later on in the movie Danny admits he did not write it but that Yeats did. Cheers! Lou . Oh, and I just checked. It was "Danny Boy" Daly. .

Well since you are keeping a chicken eye open for 'em Rickitycrate... DING DING DING !!! WILD CARD PHOTO ! The first to correctly identify the aircraft shown disassembled and sitting on the rail car, it's landplane counterpart, (ah, there's a clue), and the year it went into war service will be awarded 2 bonus points. You must be spot on with all answers to win. Good Luck! .

Olham, you are correct Sir, as was Rickitycrate. You both gave very complete answers on a plane I though might be trickier to identify. Well done. I feel badly about how this one went, but I thought about it and the only fair way to deal with it for all concerned was to stick with the rules set forth at the start. The latest contest standings after this photo set are as follows: Olham, 28 points Dej, 21 points Red-Dog, 20 points Rickitycrate, 20 points Bullethead, 5 points Duce Lewis, 5 points Luftace, 5 points Burning Beard, 4 points Check Six, 2 points rhythalion, 2 points JohnGresham, 1 point Shrikehawk, 1 point TonyO, 1 point zoomzoom, 1 point Cheers! Lou

. Beautiful art work Puff. Very, very well done.

. Ummm, Rickitycrate, sorry to have to say this but you've posted far too early Sir, as per the 36 hour wait rule. .

Bullethead wrote: I agree completely with your assessment here Sir. I have discoverd during my stick time in OFF that to be as good as or better than the AI requires a lot of practice in each and every crate. After six plus months the only BHaH kite I feel I've really mastered so far is the Camel, and am currently working on doing the same with the DH2. But once you truly do know what your mount can and can't do there's not an AI pilot in the OFF skies that can out-class you, and that's with or without his wingies helping him. I am now regularly going up against four DR1 aces with my Camel in QC, allowing them the alt advantage, and still winning the contest more often than not. Now that's some kind of white-knuckle fun...oh yeah! Cheers! Lou

Thanks for posting that flynn. Goose skin indeed Olham. Yeats is on my short list of poets and writers, and that piece is one of my favorites of his. Here is another: To Some I Have Talked With by the Fire While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes, My heart would brim with dreams about the times When we bent down above the fading coals And talked of the dark folk who live in souls Of passionate men, like bats in the dead trees; And of the wayward twilight companies Who sigh with mingled sorrow and content, Because their blossoming dreams have never bent Under the fruit of evil and of good: And of the embattled flaming multitude Who rise, wing above wing, flame above flame, And, like a storm, cry the Ineffable Name, And with the clashing of their sword-blades make A rapturous music, till the morning break And the white hush end all but the loud beat Of their long wings, the flash of their white feet. Bullethead, I would think that last one might appeal to you as well Sir. And Hauksbee, it is a very good thing that the iPod generation is still reading his stuff. .

File Name: 1917 Sopwith Triplane RNAS "Where's the Bratwurst?" File Submitter: RAF_Louvert File Submitted: 27 Sep 2009 File Category: Aircraft Skins 1917 Sopwith Triplane RNAS, "Where's the Bratwurst?" Just a fun one for all you Tripe flyers out there who want a bit more colour in your lives. Cheers! Lou Click here to download this file

. Intense! .

. Outstanding work as always Gents! We are getting quite a collection of additional skins for our beloved sim, and here is another I just finished, (a fun one for all you Tripe flyers who desire a bit more colour in your lives. Resized to 74% (was 1300 x 900) - Click image to enlarge Resized to 74% (was 1300 x 1100) - Click image to enlarge I have added this skin to our downloads page, but if you wish to grab it right away and give it a go, here is a direct link: 1917 RNAS Tripe "Where's the Bratwurst?" Let me know what you think and if there is anything than needs tweaking. Enjoy. Cheers! Lou

. Ras, and all, I have finished up the Tripe I was working on, and here are a couple of screenies to show it off. I have added this skin to our downloads page, but if you wish to grab it right away and give it a go, here is a direct link: 1917 RNAS Tripe "Where's the Bratwurst?" Let me know what you think and if there is anything than needs tweaking. Enjoy. Cheers! Lou

Wow! Red-Dog, I thought this one would trip folks up as it is in fact the Albatros C.X prototype fitted with the C.VII style radiator "ears". But you must have picked up on those elliptical wing tips and sorted it out. And I think you gave just enough info Sir. Two more points then to Red-Dog, Olham, and Rickitycrate, with only #42 left to sort out in this group. Of course that's easy as we all know that 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. Cheers! Lou

Outstanding answers Rickitycrate and Olham, and both correct! You two were ready and waiting I see. I would however like to clear up a common misconception about the B.E.12. While it did evolve at Farnborough during the early months of 1915 as a marriage of the B.E.2 airframe with the then-new R.A.F.4 air-cooled 12-cylinder Vee-type engine of 140hp, the B.E.12 was not meant to be a fighter. It was at first unarmed and was intended for such roles as bombing and photography. The prototype was tested in France in September 1915 and its generally satisfactory performance encouraged the War Office to order production of the B.E.12 in that same month. At first serving with RFC squadrons in France for general duties, (and at that point pressed into service as a fighter due to the lack of other more suitable aircraft), the B.E.12 was fitted with a 7.7mm Lewis machine gun on an oblique mounting on the fuselage side, or over the wing centre section, but several other experimental installations were tried at Farnborough before the decision to adopt the newly-available Vickers-Challenger interrupter gear, using a Vickers gun firing through the propeller disc. Difficulties with the gear, combined with the excessive stability of the B.E.12, made the type ineffectual as a fighter, however, and it was soon withdrawn from France, having served with only two squadrons. B.E.12s remained in service with Home Defence squadrons through 1917, many alternative armament installations being tried, including a quartet of Lewis guns, and sets of Le Prieur rockets on the interplane struts. One Zeppelin was shot down by a B.E.12, in June 1917. At Farnborough, one was tested with a Davis six-pounder recoilless gun, firing upwards at 45° for anti-Zeppelin use, but this was not adopted for production. Contracts were placed with two companies for B.E.12 production, Daimler building 200 and Standard Motor Co, 50, against the original orders placed in 1915, and Daimler receiving a contract for 200 more in August 1917. Many of the latter, however, were completed as B.E.12b's. In the Middle East theatre, and in Macedonia, the B.E.12 and B.E.12a proved more useful – although typically as long range reconnaissance aircraft rather than as fighters. An exception to this rule was the machine of Captain G.W. Murlis-Green of #17 Squadron – who shot down several enemy aircraft, probably the only B.E.12 ace. (Information courtesy of Aviastar.org, Wikipedia, and myself) Cheers! Lou

. Olham, I feel your pain Sir. But as you note, you can take some solace in the fact that you are in good company. .

. Alrighty folks, here we go with the second to the last set of photos. Remember the rules, have fun, and give 'er what for! Round 11 begins now. Good luck everyone. Let's play What's My Plane! .

Well I'm finally back home and have things ready for the weekend, so here is a heads-up to all you eager contestants. 13 hours from now I will be posting photo set #11. Be prepared. Cheers! Lou