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Hi, good to hear ! Welcome back UncleAl, the forums would not be the same without you And thanks Eric for an explanation, where you would not have had to explain anything (gawd i hope i said this right) - +1 and nice to see, thanks ! Greetings, Catfish

Hmm, searching for chrispdm1 i did not find any posts of Uncleal being vicious or whatever. I am certain that he deseves being banned if he did such bad things, however wold you please point out what you mean, unless you can be banned at this form for sheer hearsay ? I only ask because he helped me a lot, even sent me graphic card from the US, to Germany. Thanks and greetings, Catfish

Hello, can we sign a petition, to get him back ? Greetings, Catfish

Hello Simon, fishing in Scotland, i envy you ! There's quite some fish up there from trouts to Salmons, and pikes. Loch Morlich has lots of fish, but i found the smaller rivers and creeks all around the Hhighlands much more interesting. Good luck and have a nice holiday, Catfish

Hello Bletchley, so the Fokker E.III had a mixture control, and a throttle - and certainly the blip switch - thanks ! Have posted your text at the RoF forum, maybe they'll change it back. How about the Airco D.H.2 ? Did it also have a throttle, or better: Which engine was used in this bird ? And, since we are at it: What about the N11 ? Thanks and greetings, Catfish

Time to polish up your friesisch, Herr Olham Schoenen Urlaub!. Wels/Catfish

Hello, all good points, just "flew" the RoF E.III myself for a short excursion - shot down two balloons, a SPAD XIII, a Sopw. Dolphin and a locomotive. I would have got the Bréguet 14, too, but had no ammo left. With an Eindecker. RoF "enemy AI" in single play, well there's room for improvement. Flying the E.III in RoF - it has a nice touch and is well modelled including wing-warping, and the turning tensioner pulley. I wondered why the RoF Dev team took away the throttle - i thought and heard from Bletchley they did have a throttle, if only for reducing revolutions from 1200 down to roughly 700, and did the rest with the blip switch. But maybe they did this with the one mixture throttle, which is present and works. It almost flies by itself, and only develops vicious stalls after real abuse, and too-tight turns with steep angles, don't do this close to the ground because you need some altitude to catch it. It is harder to aim with the RoF E.III because it somehow vibrates more, and does not keep its attitude towards a target very long, without making corrections again and again. Both E.IIIs in OFF and RoF are easy to fly, and since especially early german planes were built to behave that way this is somehow convincing. (The Etrich and Rumpler "Taube" monoplanes were even able to land hands-off, and two did so without pilot ahem). Apart from that both flight models in the sims are astonishingly similar, when it comes to general manoeuverability and behaviour. Regarding the aforementioned book from Jentsch, he wrote that the Pfalz monoplane he flew at the macedonian front was a direct copy of a Morane Saulnier monoplane, but at one point he writes it was a copy of the Parasol - which was a "Hoch"-Decker (wing well above the fuselage), and cannot be compared with a Morane Saulnier "N", or Bullet-type at all. Pfalz built Morane Parasols (High wing) in license. Pfalz did also build monoplanes that looked like the Fokker E.I, or III (if never like the "Bullet)" but i am really not sure whether Jentsch talks about those. Anyway he wrote he preferred the Fokker E.III very much, to the Pfalz monoplane he had to fly. He also wrote that the Fokker E.III was astonishingly nimble, and manoeuverable, and when we look at when he wrote his book, he must have compared that to the later war planes also. It indeed seems the early Fokker E-type was not a sluggish plane at all, but had a too-weak engine to be really of use later in the war. Certainly the warp mechanism may have prevented hard and fast "instable" manoeuvering, but i really don't know for sure. Greetings, Catfish .

Good that we have diplomacy .. explained here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=DE&feature=related&hl=de&v=RZUOkGxGUVs lol Greetings, Catfish

No, it were those Vril Haunebu whatever flying disks from the Nazis: http://www.myvideo.d...ebu_Flugkreisel another in english http://www.myvideo.d...es_sie_Wirklich http://www.myvideo.de/watch/3356129/Ufo_des_3_Reichs_Ufo_Abschuesse God there's tons about this rubbish, on the 'net Greetings, Catfish

Hello, And history is the lie we agree upon .. "Causing Britain to declare war on Germany" - would Britain have declared war to France, if France had - after or before its declaration of war - invaded Belgium first ? Would Britain have let Germany complete the Baghdad-Bahn, and accepted its consequences on Suez and the Middle East ? You know this is not really my opinion, just stirring the pot Greetings, Catfish

Pound Sterling, comes as i heard from the "Easterlings", folks from abroad of eastern (mostly german and russian) origin, buying and selling anything on the english markets, who on the market in London paid for goods with cast silver bars and coins of a standard quality, which were then also called "easterlings", and later became the abbreviated 'sterling, and "pound sterling", and an accepted general currency. Greetings, Catfish

As a bombsite you might choose the Tower bridge, or alternatively some well-visible german monument Anyway you have to keep your wings horizontal, the slightest angle will make the bombs go everywhere, but your target. When going in close i descend at a slight angle, usually aim over the nose (MG sight) and then lift the nose a bit until the target vanishes under the nose (keep wings horizontal, fly straight without any rudder input!), then release several bombs, usually one's a hit - takes practice though. Hitting an exact target with only one bomb directly is hard though .. Greetings, Catfish

Hello Olham, what about Bellin, or Schnittger (with double T), or maybe a Schumacher (without h) ? Is there something in the books ? Schnittger should be born in the region of Lemgo, or Detmold. (I heard that Berthold Schilling (a distant relative) was aboard the L-59 Zeppelin, seems he was "Obermaschinenmaat" ). Thanks and greetings, Catfish/Wels P.S. 4:0 against Argentina ?!

Hello, most two seaters were not flown aggressively, the only exceptions being the Roland "Walfisch", the Sopwith 1 1/2 strutter, and the "Brisfit". There are those two theories of surviving a fighter attack, of either aggressively attacking oneself, or fly on in formation as a group, and have a stable platform for defensive gunning. However with the RE8 there was not really a choice, having a "range" of some 5 mph between stall and maximum speed The RE8 had a too weak and thus overstressed engine, for the big lumbering airframe, and it was also prone to "conk out" and stay all the time. British two seaters suffered a long time, and were sent in in masses, to gain information, until the DH4, the Breguets, and the Brisfits appeared on the scene. Germany usually sent high flying 1-2 two seaters, with big engines and able to quickly gain altitude after a recon mission. No british plane was able to get most of the Rumpler planes at their service ceiling. I always wonder why the Entente did not concentrate on building better recconnaissance planes for so long. Imho the BE2s and RE8s remained in service far too long. Greetings, Catfish

Hello, whoever spoke of an unbelievable 4:0 . . . But indeed Australia did not give up until the end, and i think at least one of the yellow, and the red card were over the top, by the referee. Greetings, Catfish

Hello, regarding WW2 Hitler did not bomb Paris when the troops invaded France, but he intended to burn it to the ground when the invasion of France by the allies had begun and german troops had to retreat. It is only due to the resistance of one man, the commanding general of Paris Mr. Dietrich von Choltitz, who ignored Hitler's direct order, that Paris was not burned and devastated: "Paris ist in ein Trümmerfeld zu verwandeln, der Kommandierende General hat es bis zum letzten Mann zu verteidigen und geht, wenn nötig, unter den Trümmern unter." (Roughly translated: Paris has to be turned into an expanse of rubble, the commanding general has to defend it to the last man, and go down with its debris if necessary.) von Choltitz directly defied Hitler's order of august 22nd, 1944, and refused to burn down and defend (!) the city despite of repeated questions from Berlin ("Brennt Paris?"), until the capitulation of august, 25th, 1944. This is often not mentioned, in official ceremonies on the libération de Paris. Choltitz wrote in his memoirs that he had to refuse a barbarian order to destroy "the city of lights", as he called Paris. Some german troops refusing Choltitz' orders still defended Paris, but it was no comparison to what would have happened, had Hitler's order been followed. During WW1 Paris was also "visited" by Zeppelins, in the early war, and bombed. However airship losses were high, and hitting military targets seemed impossible with the navigation and bombing sights of the time. As per direct order from William 2nd being in charge of all things naval in Germany (but only that branch), civilian targets in London also had to be spared by naval airships. No bombing areas were the complete London East side, homes of Londoners, and locations of royal, cultural or scientific importance and history. Targets were all military installations, power houses, the british mint, the big banks, but again not the houses of parliament. However William's orders did not include the army airships which were not so reluctant, but to be honest had difficulties to find London at all, let alone small targets in a wide area of homes. It was also soon found out that hitting exact targets was impossible, even if they could be identified from above. After the british blockade and some 750.000 dead civilians in Germany due to the famine, the general staff intended to bring England to its knees, and burn London. However the airships soon proved to be not suited, so incendiary bombs were developed, and the heaver-than-air bombers were intended do this. However when all was ready to go i 1918, the order to attack London with incendiary bombs was withdrawn in the last second - some say it was again William 2nd, but he was not in any condition to influence the military at this time any more. Greetings, Catfish

Hello, i accidentally stumbled over those photos at Canakkale, Turkey (Gallipoli) while searching information on the LVG I and II types in the BAM and BAO squadrons, and the early Albatros B.Is. Maybe those photos have been recoloured later, but they look like "the real thing": http://www.dijitaldunyaforum.info/forum/ataturk/777-canakkale-uzerindeki-ucak-filomuz-ilk-defa-goreceginiz-resimlerle.html Greetings, Catfish

Hello, i have not been able to play SH V for now 3 days due to whatever problem UBIsoft servers have - maybe DDOS attacks, too much unexpected traffic or sheer imcompetence - but you know what ? I don't give a damn because if this is the way DRM goes in the future they lose me completely. There's enough else in the world to do than fuzzing around with buggy software that is additionally rendered unusable due to DRM "models". Pirates will never buy a sim. People who like games, will. It is not even about money, but arrogance and pride. I feel sorry for the devs though. I as a customer have more hazzles than someone playing the pirated offline version. It works, it is just people should at least read the readme lol. You can guess what i will do when this sim remains unplayable for two more days. And this will be my last word on that here, and the last sim i bought from UBI. Greetings, Catfish

Hello, i guess the black square was indeed the turkish official marking of the time, but if the planes had initially german crosses overpainting would have been sure convenient .. Greetings, Catfish

Signed and sent. Greetings, Catfish

Hello, not to wake up this thread again ahem, only a correction: Bockholt captured the Bark "Royal", not "Victoria" - and it was with the L 23, not L 33. Unfortunately could not edit/change my old post further north. Sorry and greetings, Catfish

Hello, Ahaa right - you know when they were running away in an eastern direction they usually overrevved their engines in panic, and fell all down by themselves ... unless they finally arrived at the eastern front and frightened the russian flyers to death. Someone HAD to shoot them down, but certainly ONLY out of of numerical superiority. You sure know Germany has never lost any war. In theory. What i meant was certainly that also the fatality lists are either not all accessible or missing, for whatever reason - so it is hard to paint an overall picture. A bit more seroius: 1. I have indeed no clue how the training of british, canadian, US or french pilots was - let alone from other nationalities, from any other country, or colony. 2. For what i read the single-seater scouts of Germany were indeed mostly above the front, or their own side - but you indeed need 3 times the force to successfully attack someone, and the whole purpose and policy of the German Air Service was to shoot down enemy reconnaissance planes, at least at that time. At the beginning german planes were explicitly forbidden to cross the lines, for not letting the interruptor gear falling in Entente hands in case of an emergency landing, but this changed later in 1916. It is not true that german single seaters never crossed the lines, this is an aerodrome myth. They attacked enemy aerodromes, they followed enemy flights across the border, and the ground-fighters like from the Schlastas did their own attacks close to the ground, strafing trenches. Not to speak about german recconnaisance planes, bombers and Zeppelins. But it must have been hard to fight against an enemy with better resources, technically, and human - and at two frontlines. The german idea of aerial warfare was not that much developed - they used low-flying planes during army ground attacks for support, but mostly not otherwise. When i think of how i "fly" in OFF, i usually try to keep on "my" side - and IF i have to cross the trenches, i get the hell out of there asap, after the mission goal is accomplished - or not Greetings, Catfish

Hello, a lot of records are missing, especially on the german side - some have been burnt by accident or intentionally, by own members of the German Air Service, or the general war management, some were locked in the eastern socialist part of Germany until 1989, and only slowly surface now in the united "Bundesarchiv", but remember some also have been brought to England - and will only be available in 2018, if ever (the 100 years formula, for not unnecessarily upsetting anyone especially when it comes to war propaganda ahem). It seems that the german training took longer, and was more thorough - sources talk about 3 to 6 months at least, including high altitude flights with barographs for evidence, there had to be night flights absolved, especially starts and landing at night, and a lot of technical training and navigation, and meteorology. As i recently read in the "Neumann", a german pilot had to fly one year in a two-seater as observer, before being allowed to fly a single fighter plane. Before becoming a fighter pilot, von Richthofen served with the BAO or so i think, flying with lumbering AEG G.IIIs, as a gunner/observer. I somehow doubted that towards the end of the war, but there is indeed no source that states anything else, not even in the last months of the war (sometimes it even looks as if the training became more thorough in the end, maybe based on war experience). When additionally thinking about the use of parachutes (and allowance (sic!) to use it), it somehow looks as if the lives of the pilot were also considered to be very valuable, by the GAS -which is probably also due to the long-term training of the pilots - if you only look at "return on investment". Commanders of airships were trained even more thoroughly, with additional meteorolgy, and crew-commanding abilities, but there were a mere 200 of them in all, for the appx. 100 airships built during the war. Mr. Bockholt, the commander of the Africa-Zeppelin was only chosen because he was one of the least trained commanders, for he would then stay in Africa, and the FdL Strasser did not want to lose an experienced north sea airship commander. But then Bockholt also was a daredevil, who had captured the british sailing freighter "Victoria" by landing beside it, and dropping a prize crew, when being a commander of airship L 33 ... sorry for OT Greetings, Catfish

Hehe, nice skin, and story - the story b.t.w. is here, even translated in english: http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://rivertext.com/images_busch/h_hans39.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.rivertext.com/hans.shtml&usg=__qo336-SZ4eDnWcavNB7mPTUuvWM=&h=145&w=147&sz=8&hl=de&start=26&itbs=1&tbnid=r79m8gg9WjeaRM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3DHans%2BHuckebein%26start%3D18%26hl%3Dde%26sa%3DN%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26tbs%3Disch:1 And i thought i was the only one thinking of this special raven, when flying OFF Greetings, Catfish

It's in german, but you'll get the idea: Greetings, Catfish