Rick Rawlings

This is absolutely, positively, absotively, posolutely, MontyPythonly necessary!

John Rockitt 94 Aero May, 1918 Near Toul Glad to be back! Everyone thought I was dead and sold off my stuff to pay for beer, which of course I could not blame them for... Eddie Rickenacker, you know, the race car driver? He himself set up a collection to get me restocked. Nice guy! Anyway, eager for some payback, I joined a flight over lines for an airfield attack:

John Rockitt 94 Aero April, 1918 Near Toul Caught one the other day: The rounds went clean through but I was losing a lot of blood and had to put down in enemy territory. Fortunately, I don't speak German and was therefore able to quickly escape! I swear these two-seaters (or anything else) are going to be the death of me! *the alternate title for this video was "Gunsight? What The Heck Would You Want A Gunsight On Your Plane For, Son?"

They can have them! More SPADS for MEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

John Rockitt 94 Aero April, 1918 Near Toul They say that greatness in the Nieuport line of scout aircraft often skips a generation. The N11 was a beaute, the 16 a dog and the 17 sublime. After a good showing with the N27, the 28 is looking like it is in the dog category... Doesn't turn that well and will stall if you look at it funny. It's reasonably fast, but that doesn't matter as you end up leaving your wing fabric behind if you go too fast anyway... Well, at least Winslow and Campbell are making a go of it, picking up a hun shot down for each of them! I did manage to get one today, despite my poor old crate; the Albatros pilot was even worse than me! Heaven forbid i run into one of those tri-planes flown by the old Richthofen himself, I shall be done for!

Rother Nought 3 Sqn. RNAS Dec 1916 Title says it all. Fortunately, I always have a back-up career waiting in the wings, and I'll swing back around again with a Rother Nought III sometime in the future...

Great stuff!

Sorry! (Love the new Camel's paint scheme, BTW...) I have easy claims on and the game said I got two, but l only felt comfortable with the one two seater seen going down, so that is what I put in for. It was confirmed. No other claims from the rest of the flight but everyone got back safely. As you may have heard during the video, the Strutters were able to sneak in and drop some bombs and did some damage, so we got a successful mission on top of that...

Rother Nought 3 Sqn RNAS Nov. 1916 Near Dunkerque Took Ash, Randulph and Matheson across the lines in what has become the routine: Clear the area, draw the fire so the Strutters can sneak in and bomb:

Yikes! That's chewed up and spit out! Are you exclusively watching the one guy or helping out the whole flight. I have another vid to upload tomorrow and I'm finding it very difficult to keep track of everyone, or even any one plane! Good luck!

Thanks! They can still soak up a lot of lead, though!

Rother Nought 3 Sqn RNAS Oct. 1916 Near Dunkerque, We lost Sam Atherton the other day. He went down when he was hit by Archie dog-fighting too low near a Hun balloon. My promotion to full Lieutenant put me in charge of our flight. I took Ash and a couple of the newer boys out to clear the way for our Strutters to bomb the Loos Junction rail yard. The plan was to go down to Lens and turn North, drawing the attention of any enemies in the area and the Strutters would be able to fly directly in. We caught a flight of three huns directly over Lens at about our altitude. As there were four of us, I liked those odds. They were either Fokker biplanes or the new Albatros scouts, which have not come close enough for me to get a good look at. Made a claim for 1 driven down, 1 down in flames. Went off to Loos Junction afterwards but couldn't find the Strutters or anyone from my flight but bomb damage was visible. Got back home to find everyone back safely.

Rother Nought 3 Sqn. RNAS Sept, 1916 We were informed that the German ace Wintgens was shot down the other day. A bit of good news for us, but it is still sad to see such a pilot go West. Today we were up on an afternoon scramble as enemy craft were spotted headed our way! We got up and I immediately began climbing without waiting for the others, knowing that height and an easterly track would be crucial in catching the huns. Sure enough, they bombed our field as I climbed...but it is a long way back to the lines and I caught them! I was able to take out two of the three Germans before my engine gave out with the oil line shot away. I made a dead stick landing and put in two claims, which I hope will be credited as they crashed only a few miles away...I

Nice stuff! I've often wondered about this...So in my limited understanding, I am guessing that the clouds are large image files. The rendering engine looks to see if the center of the image is in your line of sight and if so, draws the cloud. As you turn your head, the center of the image is no longer in your line of sight and the cloud is no longer rendered. However, since cloud are often a half mile or more across, this causes the cloud to stop being rendered while its edge is still visible. As you look back, the center is suddenly in your field of view again and the cloud is re-rendered, flickering back into view. Is this even close to correct?

Roll-back, see if it goes away?

Nice! I always advance time on those missions as I can never see anything. Maybe my gamma is too low or the room too bright...

Those are great!

Hmm. Paul Stanley was/is the lead singer for the rock band KISS. I don't know if the generic squadron pilot names are random or if someone was doing a tribute nod? The lead guitar player for KISS was a guy named Paul Frehley, who's nickname is "Ace"! So I thought a guy who's already an Ace would be a better candidate as you try to level up your wingmen (which of course you have no control over!). And now you are up to speed!

Heh, I just noticed that Lt. Stanley has been given a kill without even claiming one! Surely he leads a charm-ed life! But wouldn't Lt. Frehley be a better wingman trainer? He's already an Ace...

Do they get incapacitated with fewer hits or is it all or none?

Nice! Someone, somewhere earlier asked if there was still ground traffic. As they can see, there is! I even spotted a brave "Olham convoy" sprinting from one front to the other under heavy bombardment!

Hmm, seems like the patrol and intercept missions would be higher...

Nice! What time frame are we talking about? I seem to remember that Camels were sent on a lot of ground attack missions later in the war. What mission types are we talking about here?

Or maybe (probably) I just can't shoot...