RCAF_Dudley

Hi, I have scaled down the photos and I can now load and post them successfully. So, as I was saying... I recently had the opportunity to visit the Royal Canadian Military Institute (RCMI), which is on University Ave. in Toronto. The RCMI displays many items from Canada's notable military history. In the their aviation section, is a display case showing remnants from Manfred von Richthofen's Fokker DR1 Triplane. I took the following photos of these items as I thought they might be of interest. I've also included the descriptive text that's next to these items in the display. The display case in the RMCI: Provenance of von Richthofen seat, fuselage fabric, wingtip in Museum collection. In 1920, Captain Arthur Roy Brown, D.S.C.* presented the seat and fabric to the Canadian Military Institute. (After Brown obtained the fabric from the Fokker Triplane, his squadron mates ripped out the the cross center, signed their names to a white linen panel, and fixed it to the cross center. The names are still visible today). Brown also had the wingtip, and gave it to his friend, then-Lieutenant-Colonel William "Billy" Bishop, V.C., D.S.O.*, M.C., D.F.C. In 1968, Bishop's son Arthur presented the wingtip to the Royal Canadian Military Institute. Generation of Institute members, their guests, and professional reasearchers have studied the von Richthofen seat, fabric, and wingtip.

Hmm... still no luck with the upload and post. When I select a JPG image and click Upload, the Upload screen has the counter animation, but when it finishes the attachment panel is blank, except for the Manage Current Attachments menu, which says (0) and the pull down states "There are no items currently" Firefox 3.0.10, NoScript (Combatace.com is allowed to run scripts), I've tried unloading my anti-virus and firewall (Trend), Also tried IE6. It must be some setting on my PC.

Sorry - this topic should have had an Off topic label. Trying again to upload photo image: Hmmm... not getting too far. No luck uploading to this topic or to a Personal Album. The Help function doesn't give me any clues. What are the limitations for image uploading? These are JPG files ranging from about 280 to 460KB. I click on the Browse button and identify the JPG file on my local hard drive. I then click on Upload and nothing appears to happen. Can someone offer some advice?

Hi, I recently had the opportunity to visit the Royal Canadian Military Institute (RCMI), which is on University Ave. in Toronto. The RCMI displays many items from Canada's notable military history. In the their aviation section, is a display case showing remnants from Manfred von Richthofen's Fokker DR1 Triplane. I took the following photos of these items as I thought they might be of interest. I've also included the descriptive text that is next to these items in the display. The display case in the RMCI: Hmmm... sorry - having problems uploading the photos - I'll have to try again.

Thanks guys! Now that I know they don't count (unless as an assigned target), I'll reserve balloon-popping as an idle sport. Great fun, if you live to tell the tale!

I'm really enjoying the 1.28a patch with the Hard Damage Model, with Hard guns, and "Dead is Dead" (120% Realism), even though it makes for lots of dead pilots. C'est le guerre! Vraiment! On a new Campaign with RFC-11 (Bristol Scouts), the first mission was an Airfield Attack. I did a low-level pass on the target enemy airfield to strafe a line of neatly parked EIIIs and Roland CIIs, scored some minor hits, and then bugged out as the ground fire was getting hot. On the way back to our lines, I attacked and destroyed two German Observation Balloons (with my full flight in tow as witness). No enemy aircraft were sighted in the air and the flight returned to home base without further incident: Goals Completed. Ending the mission, OFF Manager did report one pilot from the flight as missing, but gave me no opportunity to claim the balloon kills. I tried to enter a claim in the Pilot Doissier: View Claims section, but it wouldn't stick. A Replay/review of the mission did register the destruction of each balloon, but it was disappointing to not to be able to claim them, having at least three surviving witnesses (including my wingman). I may not have hit all the way-points, but I didn't think that mattered to OFF Manager. Are we not yet able to claim gas-bags as kills?

I usually have name combinations with Dudley - Not my name at all. A nick-name I briefly had years ago, but it seemed right when I started flying CFS1 on-line with RCAF_6Group. I go through so many pilots that I make them with different middle initials. (You think I'd be better at this by now; I mean the air combat - not creative names.) So: Albert A. Dudley, Albert B. Dudley, etc. - eventually using up the alphabet and progressing to other first names Alfred, Arthur .... sigh! When flying German, I use Ernst von Dudley - known to friend and foe as Der FlederWurst!

I'm in! I can certainly provide some excellent target material.