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. Macklroy, I have come to the same place on this as Olham. I went back and forth on the fuel management too, but now start every mission with full tanks, (which appears to be historically accurate as well). Perhaps it is just the amount of stick time I've now had in this fantastic sim, but as long as I don't do something really stupid I can usually engage the enemy and win the fight, or set up the AI so that I can run away and live to fight another day, if the situation so dictates. Here are my current workshop settings: .

. You know what the difference is between the Western Front and Kindergarten? ... guns ... hee hee hee, I crack myself up .

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. Which is why I work on and fly ultralights. Flyby, build your hovercraft Sir. If you can dream it, you can do it. .

. I have indeed seen this before Dej, and it still makes me laugh 'til I cry. And for the record, your favorite on the list is also mine. .

. Gaw and Hellshade, I wish I knew what to tell you about the distortion you are getting when displaying the new medals. I can not get my own rig to duplicate your results. I assume it has something to do with how your systems are reacting to the new oversized images. They must not be getting properly compressed to fit into the allotted space on the pilot's page. .

. Very interesting reading Olham. Thanks for sharing. Now I will have to see if there are more such contemporary reports on that website. .

. FC, I agree with you 100%. .

. I'd like to know just why that particular town name was painted on the bird. You know there's an interesting story behind it if only someone had remembered what it was and wrote it down. . And BB, I agree. This would be a fun little skinning project. .

. Ghosts in the machine. .

. +2 here. I also fully appreciate the little inaccuracies as to precisely where the front lines are on any given day. And I have also landed somewhere that I thought was safe only to be greeted by friendly Hun troops who were quick to offer me a place to stay. .

. I do Olham. I ran across this little error quite some time ago and tracked it down. It took me a while to find it at first because I kept looking in the various Bristol 'skins' folders for the offending 'dds' files. .

. Macklroy, the fix is fairly simple as the problem stems from the fact that several of the Bristol skins in the 'dds' skin files inside the 'C:\OBDSoftware\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\aircraft' folder are wrong, (they are actually DH-2 skins). You can repair this by using your DXTbmp program to open up a good Bristol skin and then saving it to the affected folders, allowing it to overwrite the skins that are there. IIRC, the 'dds' files that need fixing are found in 'C:\OBDSoftware\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\aircraft\Bris_Scout_A_SQ1\textures' and 'C:\OBDSoftware\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\aircraft\Bris_Scout_A_Sqd\textures'. .

. Olham, I think it says 'LEICESTER CANADA'. Leicester in a small town in Alberta, and while I do know that MacLaren grew up in Alberta I am not sure of the significance of that particular town name on the plane. After a bit more reading it looks as if that Snipe was in the mixed group of planes that were sent over to Canada in 1919 to form the nucleus of that country's fledgling national air force. .

. Olham, that is one of Captain Donald R. MacLaren's planes, though the photo I have of that particular kite sitting at Upper Hayford in late 1918 does not have the wording under the cockpit, so perhaps your photo of the same plane is from some time after that. Also, (and I am not 100 percent positive about this), I do not think he flew this kite until after the War. .

. Which Snipe was that? I missed it. .

. I believe that one belonged to Vizefeldwebel Hegeler of Jasta 24. On the 26th of February 1918 he was forced down near Bonneuil by 2nd Lt. A.K. Cowper of 24 Squaron RFC. .

. Yes indeed. I had the unnerving experience of hearing my gunner ob's death scream when flying a fateful mission in a Roland Walfisch. Not something I care to have happen again anytime soon. :no2: .

. That is a fantastically detailed crash photo Flyby, would you mind sharing what the precise significance of it is Sir. The data base I referenced can be found on the 'Aviation in Malta' website, and here is the link to their page dealing with the 1930-1939 time period: Aviation in Malta Good luck on your research Flyby, and please let me know what you discover. Lou .

. Herrlich mitreißende, Olham! Very well written, mein freund. .

. Flyby, that plane in your first photo is almost certainly a Fairey IIIF Mk IIIB or a Fairey IIIF Mk IIIM. Both versions operated out of Hal Far with 202 Squadron up to and into 1938, with the last recorded accident involving such being noted on 21 May 1938 for Fairey IIIF Mk IIIB serial No. S1534, when it was 'struck off charge', (i.e. removed from inventory). .