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Thanks, HS, another excellent movie! Guys, be sure to leave a comment on the OFF YouTube videos you watch there, it draws attention and helps bring new flyers into OFF, keeping OFF alive and progressing. Thanks

No problem, welcome to the forum and we all look forward to see you up and running and hear about your first encounters/impressions. Be sure you get a TrickIR3 or newer, you will hear about this over and over on the forum, it makes a huge difference, especially if you start trying to fly with out the pilot helper indicators. Also be sure to visit and read the FAQ section on the website as well as the many, helpful sticky posts up above.. lots of good info and advice. Cheers!

Over50: Hope you didn't take my comments the wrong way. My point is that we have a pretty good bunch of team members here, it isn't some big company where you have no one to complain to to go to for a solution. I'm pretty sure that even if you didn't have a back up, if you ever did lose your dl install some how, all you would have to do is contact Pol or someone else on the team and they would get you another one, based on your purchase information, so I don't think you really need to worry about that, OK?

I knew you guys could do it.. Bravo!

Don't know, hope it is though, would maybe discourage some few from trying to rip off the creators of this fantastic sim. And, I wouldn't worry about having backups, I'm quite sure that in the unlikely event that you erased your dl file, if you ever did need to re dl it would be easy to do.

Thanks, will try that, it definitely looks better.

I have a hard time streaming that one down.. the 720p was fine, but this one seems to hang up easily. Looks great though.

At 720p I clicked on the change of res in the video controller and opened it up full screen and it looks pretty darn good and it's very smooth! What are you using for the video capture and what are your system specs, video card, etc.? Thanks,

I think it's a good idea. Is there any way the Sticky section could be made as a single entry line with the subjects inside of it? Similar to opening up a folder in Explorer, or like a drop down web list? That way, it would take up very little room, leaving room for current subjects, but could be easily opened up/dropped down to show the sticky subjects for those interested, or brought back up quickly to see the current posts.

Thanks! I hope Shredward can add some more to this subject, it's interesting. The British were really strict about allowing almost no "decorating" while the Italians seemed to have been more open.

RC: Very impressive, how do you get any of this done while having to.. gulp.. constantly test the brew for quality?

19 confirmed kills? If you've reached ace status, you would have been able to paint your plane, maybe early one. The early planes had more leeway, like Esc N3 Guynemer's all blue N11, Esc N3 Bucquet's all red N11 and Esc N68 Navare's all red N11 and N16, and Esc N48 Turenne's tri colored N11. By the time they got to the Noop 17's the main difference was the logos used by each different Escadrille, the aces adding smaller identifying marks or names, in most cases, although Esc 67 Maurice Boyau's N17 with it's huge, fuselage length dragon/snake certainly stood out from the rest. I would imagine that most wouldn't want to stand out from the rest that much, or were proud of the group logo, team effort ID.. it would have to take a pretty strong ego to think that you are invincible and taunt the enemy by shoving your identity in their face! Shredward can probably add a lot more information to all of this.

You mean like Ginsing Herb tea, as opposed to French Roast?

That's amazing, what a find!

Wow!

Sorry to hear that one of your favorite singers died, he wasn't my type of music, but I sympathize. Lena Horn also died just a week ago. She was a pretty amazing singer/actress with 4 Grammy awards and helped integrate Hollywood. A lot older though, at 92, where as your singer, Ronnie Deo, was only 67, just a few years older then me. Makes me realize that I need to start taking better care of myself. Lynn Redgrave also died at age 67 just a few weeks ago. I guess we'll see more and more of this as we get older, not something you think much about in your 20's-50's

Have a great time! ..What is Ostfriesland, a resort of some sort, or is that German for Disneyland?

You are really good at tracking as you film.. that's very hard to do smoothly. The sounds are pretty neat.. not sure what's going on with the lighting though. It almost feels like it's night time, there isn't a feeling of sun shinning, sort of like being up in Alaska or something. Is that part of the mod or is that your video capture?

Just a thought.. check for the latest updates of Firefox and install, see if it helps, can't hurt?

The feeling the film gets across is pretty amazing, sort of like a dream. Both images above from the website (click here)

Hi, Pol: Haven't heard of much else. He did this short, dark film, "The Promethean" a few years ago and you can watch it here (click) The guy has a lot of talent.

Just one more point. Many may not know that Jack Hunter, the author of The Blue Max died at age 87 in April 2009. He was also an artist of WWI planes and had written quite a few other books. From his website(click here): "Hunter's most recent novel, entitled The Ace, came out in October, 2008. A broad-scale view of the human cost of America’s effort in 1917-18 to build and field an air force from scratch after the declaration of war with Imperial Germany, it’s a multi-tiered story that weaves together the lives of a troubled young fighter ace in France, an Army major serving as a consultant to Congress, an unscrupulous Senator, and a beautiful Philadelphia Main Line heiress. Said Hunter, “It takes these people, stirs them in the heat of heroic sacrifice, high-level corruption, slam-bang aerial combat, and unrequited love, then serves up a spread unlike anything ever done in World War I literature. A labor of love, it is, to be sure — but a love which I hope is not unrequited.” Would love to see his new novel, The Ace, made into a film if it's half as good as The Blue Max. I'm ordering a copy, they have the book on Amazon (click here) Here's a quote from Hunter himself on how Hollywood screwed up what he thought was going to be a historically well done film (click to read his whole story about the book and the movie): "Despite my hopes and Delang’s counsel, historical and technical accuracy soon gave way to movieland’s blue smoke. En route to Germany to research another novel, my wife and I were invited to spend a week with the film people on location in Ireland. On the day of our arrival at the Bray Studios, we were shown to canvas director’s chairs with our names on the back and treated to rushes of some key action sequences. And I was literally left speechless when I saw Fokker D-7s with inverted engines and 1916-style insignia, Dr-1s with radial engines and smoke canisters on their landing gear struts, machine-guns that looked like Space Cadet props spouting flame without benefit of ammo tracks, every pilot wearing an Uhlan uniform and Battle of Britain style goggles, Gypsy Moths pretending to be Albatros D-3s, a Stampe presented as an RE-8 — the anachronisms and goofs compounded. When I asked Delang about it later, he merely shrugged, rolled his eyes, and sighed resignedly. When I challenged the art director on something so glaring as a D-7 with curve-sided crosses, he shrugged, too. “That kind of cross photographs better,” he said. Ah, but how about those machine-guns with no ammo feed tracks? Another shrug. “No big deal. People just watch the muzzle flashes.” So much for the definitive WWI aviation movie." So, I guess things weren't that much different then they are now, but we still enjoyed the movie.

No wonder you're having problems.. it's all in some foreign language! Sorry, couldn't resist... I have no idea what may be wrong. Hope someone else here can help though, good luck. BTW, Olham, I've always been amazed how good your English is, are you German born?

Thanks, I fixed it!

A few years ago I posted a link to this excellent, short animated film made by students at Bringham Young University. I happned to come across it again and thought some of you may not have seen it or might like to see it again. Jack Hunter, who wrote The Blue Max saw this short film and made friends with it's student producer for a shot time before he died early last year at age 87. He loved the film and wrote the following on his blog site: "In all my years as a journalist, editor, and novelist, I’ve encountered or dealt with uncountable pursuers of the literary arts. Among these legions I’ve espied all levels of creativity and talent, ranging from a handful of geniuses through many ranks of journeymen, to the tail-end dilettantes — the sideline dabblers who want not to create but to have created, and thereby, without much effort, to be included among the doers they admire. And what separated the stellar few from the mass of generics was invariably a consuming dissatisfaction with the usual and a driving need to push out its borders. These were the writers and artists whose inventive brilliance more often than not made them objects of derision as nut cases, or, at best, dismissed as “egotistical” and “controversial.” Happily, though, a satisfying number of innovators have survived the quicksand and have gone on to wide and favorable recognition. And one of the most recent in my personal experience is Kohl Glass, who, while a student at Brigham Young University, used five years of his own time and virtually all of his meager savings to create, produce, and direct Der Ostwind, a short film, a morality tale based on World War I aerial combat, which ingeniously combines live actors and dialogue with animation and computer-generated backgrounds." You can read the full account on this site (click here) And here is an interesting bio on Hunter's live(click here) Der Ostwind website (click here) Der Ostwind - the movie (click here) In search of a worthy opponent, a German WWI ace accepts the challenge of a mysterious and seemingly invincible American pilot; only to discover the true price of honor. Enjoy!