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this text is literally a textbook example for proving two things: 1. no debris flying off when getting hit. just neat and small holes. he also didn't know if he hit the triplane because of no visuals. 2. not the slightest decrease of control after he got hit. he didn't even notice it until he landed. so canvas and wood didn't have a negative effect on manouverbility

that's a very cool attitude .

i see it differently. when i'm in early 1916 i don't know the future (so i don't know what AC are going to come etc. so what i have now is the newest and most modern weapon) and i also don't know what gimmicks maybe other squadrons might have. i just know that an aeroplane for hunting other aeroplanes requires two men. one who flies, one who shoots. but this guy lanoe hawker managed to add a gun to a single seater which is shooting kind of forward without the danger of breaking the propeller. and many are copying this concept (in real there were even bristols with lewis guns on both sides as long as i know). i'm just wondering how the germans can shoot through the propeller. must be a kind of wunderwaffe...

just started a campaign with RFC11 in april 1916 flying bristol scouts and then FE2b's. if i survive long enough, i'll transfer to RFC29 in january 1917.

yes. ahem, that's the main reason for having the box in the first place and why it's empty, not because of my son as one might think ever happened to you that out of nowhere an enemy or one of your own suddenly appears from above, diving just in front of you and you find your real self ducking? happens to me once in a while, and of course than i'm looking around a bit embarrassed hoping my wive hasn't seen it

strange that i feel the extreme opposite . with eindeckers or rolands against any nieuport version? no chance. even with halberstadts and albatrosses it's very tough to survive 1916 and early 1917. only easy victims (besides be's) are the DH2's. but from then on, when there are nieuports, spads etc. everywhere, and later the camels and se5's, the albatros series is permanently inferior until the fokker DVII arrives. maybe the fokker dr1 gives a bit of relieve but mostly the germans have inferior AC. usually with the albatrosses it's very easy to lose energy when turning too much, so i always planned the next move while i was finishing the manouver i was doing. trying all tricks to get rid of any attacker. i experienced then with the nieuport, nobody ever came near my six. i simply outturned them without planning anything. with the spad and se5 series i just flew away and attacked again. the albatrosses were almost like standing still because they are so slow compared to them. so at least for me surviving in german crates is tougher. maybe it's just the lack of stick and rudder ability

he wasn't my first one, but one of the very few and the first since very long time (since my last campaign took many months in real time). there are others who have many pilots at once. i can only concentrate on one real pilot. i also have dummie pilots for each country, but only for sound-testing purposes. i would like to start again early 1916 a brit campaign, a bit like in bbc's wings. but the downside is the lacking enemies in this period. you only have eindeckers and rolands. i thought about trying a new thing. when flying twoseaters on reconmissions, i might fly over the target, hit f3 and make a screenshot. and as the missions go i can then add the pics together of the operational area as they did in real. also i thought doing a french campaign. thing is that i'm still a bit exhausted from my last german campaign, and i can't get into the flow quite right now with a new pilot. maybe i'll start in a rather unknown RFC squad with none or just few historical pilots where i have an overview over the mates. downside of the suqadrons with many historical pilots is that you have then up to 20 pilots in a squad and it's harder to develop a campaign with the feel of having a band of brothers.

started a new campaign with RFC19 in 01.01.1917.flying SpadVII's. i think that in a spad i don't have to worry too much getting shot down. i can simply fly away anytime. definitely a big advantage compared to german campaigns. cool thing happened. started on my first mission on the airfield as usual. weather was terribly snowy and everything was almost completely white out. i thought something with my card is broken. i started and just looked at the windnoise and altimeter what i was doing, until i got out of the fog. when returning i made 3 tries to land, but impossible in the fog, so i always flew through again and finally landed on a nearby airfield. never experienced to have fog directly on the airfield. very thrilling . @hassewind. i had a twoseater pilot with be's and then i switched to bristol scouts in 1915, but i got bored because the german side didn't have anything besides eindeckers later so i retired him again. maybe i'll start a new twoseater campaign in mid 1916 when at least rolands are also there, but IMHO the period is lacking too much different enemy german AC, so i retired him.

that's not quite true olham. i experimented with claimforms and once i have typed in the wingmen as witnesses, and in the text i put in many unreal words, like blabla bla blablabla blabla ghdmdfnfdjskn blabla. was quite a text and the claimform showed then 0% pending. the claimform does understand at least important keywords, like AC type, in flames, out of control, aeroplane etc. of course i don't know them. it's not the amount of words. the better you describe something, the higher is the pending %. i also experimented describing the event as short as possible, but with many of those words i thought they might be keywords, and the pending was never below 75%. some in the forum here even had 100% pending, and the claimform was very very detailed written. so the text is definitely important for getting a claim.

no offence taken my friend. as a matter of fact according to german wikipedia, the first case "official" of vampirism happened in croatia in the same district i am coming from . Der erste bekanntere angebliche Vampir stammte aus Kroatien, aus dem kleinen Dorf Kringa (Istrien), und soll dort im Jahre 1652 gestorben sein. Er war ein Bauer und trug den Namen Jure Grando. Im Jahre 1672 soll er aus seinem Grab gestiegen sein und des Öfteren das Dorf terrorisiert haben. In dem Buch von Johann Weichard Valvasor wird dieser Vampir das erste Mal in der europäischen Literatur erwähnt. Johann Joseph von Görres übernahm diese Geschichte in seinem mehrbändigen Werk „Die christliche Mystik“, das 1836–42 in Regensburg gedruckt wurde.

although romania has the same in common with croatia, geographically and peoplewise like norway with spain, i must admit that it sounds like a 70ies-trash-vampire-wannabe-bella-lugosi-movie-name

@LIMA the mccudden question we had already, sir look here 1. which pilot once decided to try a loop in it, when in the vertical he became anxious and pushed the stick back forward to level it out again. in that negative G-force moment the spare lewis drums fell out of the panel and flew directly into the prop behind him, damaging three of the four blades. he barely managed to land safely. 2. the very same pilot once in end of 1916 run with his squad into a formation of albatros DII's. one particular agressive german set on his tail shooting at him. he tried to evade by halflooping downwards and other tricks, but the german was hanging on his back like glued and shot his AC to pieces until he went down spinning out of control. surprisingly the brit leveled out again at treetop level and made it back home. the german claimed his victim as a victory and got it confirmed (he didn't see him crash but seemed to be very obvious for him and his mates that the brit crashed). what's the name of the german pilot? 3. what was the reason in the first place (at least when it appeared at the front), the brits used pushers as scouts instead of tractors?

if i take the other granddads name, the first pet and first streetname since we moved to germany, it would be Lord Dragutin-Jack Glockenhof

here is mine. first of all i thought how clean everything is, and suddenly on photos everything looks quite dusty. must be a glitch with the camera . note the "field modifications" like the rubberband on the stick, which prevents the selfcentering. that emulates a flightstick on most ww1 AC where one had to hold the stick and could not release it. note also the NASA-tested pedal fixation which prevents the pedals from sliding around. also i decided to have simply an usual office desk instead of a pc-table. that allows me to put my rig and printer and monitor and all that stuff where i want, and where i can comfortably watch mlb-tv etc. instead of having to jam the rig into the apropriate space and where i can't move the keyboard around.

i bet that if there is even some relatively unknown stuff included like the albert cathedral, then there will for sure also will be verdun with all it's forts included .

i'm Lord Marko-blacky Vrani

Happy Easter to all of you and your families. let's remember today is the day of the lords resurrection, not of colored eggs and rabbits and having some day off cheers

of course you are right, i just wanted to remember what is celebrated today, because on x-mas you have a ton of merry x-mas threads and today is the MOST important day of christianity and nobody mentioned anything.

yes, yes and ahem...yes your turn, sir.

i always loved the wing commander series, but i'm a big star wars fan, and i like more lightsabre stuff than spacefighting stuff. sorry for going off topic, but this game i'm looking forward to. timline is about 700 years before the battle of yavin and before darth bane decided there can only be two siths at one time.

since i think that shredwards question is answered correctly (please correct me if not, sir) and it was actually my turn, here are the next three questions. 1. which pilot once decided to try a loop in it, when in the vertical he became anxious and pushed the stick back forward to level it out again. in that negative G-force moment the spare lewis drums fell out of the panel and flew directly into the prop behind him, damaging three of the four blades. he barely managed to land safely. 2. the very same pilot once in end of 1916 run with his squad into a formation of albatros DII's. one particular agressive german set on his tail shooting at him. he tried to evade by halflooping downwards and other tricks, but the german was hanging on his back like glued and shot his AC to pieces until he went down spinning out of control. surprisingly the brit leveled out again at treetop level and made it back home. the german claimed his victim as a victory and got it confirmed (he didn't see him crash but seemed to be very obvious for him and his mates that the brit crashed). what's the name of the german pilot? 3. what was the reason in the first place (at least when it appeared at the front), the brits used pushers as scouts instead of tractors?

Christopher Blair rules. but mostly admiral tolwyn. was great fun to play the series. x-wing i never played so don't know.

as JMF said correctly it's usually dependent of the RPM of the prop. the reason why it sounded so fast is the twin spandaus. especially if they alternate and don't shoot simultaneously. if each gun has e.g. 6 shots per second, and they alternate, then they sound like 12 shots per second. much faster.

1. the deflection blades? (at the morane bullet) 2. fokker EIII? 3. Georges Guynemer.

no, lewie was faster . his post comes before mine, so it's his turn.