Olham

??? ??? If you never used a TrackIR before, you can't know (yet) what you are missing. You will actually be able to look around and up and down from your cockpit. You will even be able to look overboard left and right. I want to recommend to everyone again: don't place the Tracking Device cam on the monitor - it works better if it is a bit further away from your head clip reflectors. I'd say 50 cm / 20 inches is a good distance. Since I moved it a bit further back, it works as smooth as silk. Edit/PS: ...now I got it - there is really a super-typhoon underway to Japan, called Guchol. Damn, I wish you all the best of luck - hope you find a cellar to hide in.

The photo with the Lavender rib-tape had been posted here before - not sure about the whole link though. It is a part of the Australian War Memorial website, about original Lozenge fabric parts, and the re-printed Lozenge from Germany. Enjoy! http://www.awm.gov.a...earch/#more-267 .

I guess, the most of all "trickyness" of a scout would come from the effects of the turning rotaries. The inliners didn't seem to have any such nasty characteristics - at least I don't know of any. On the Sopwith Camel these effects were so strong, that it had a completely different turn to the right, than it had to the left. IMHO the Camel is the most overrated fighter in WW1. (The aircraft is, not the pilots who flew it - they must have been great fighters). Of course it DID bring the British a platform for twin guns, and of course it WAS an excellent turn fighter - at least in one direction. But it was also tricky to operate, and it killed many less experienced pilots. I would like to see a chart of production total numbers of all scouts, compared with the victories they made; and with the losses on the aircraft without enemy action. Finally the list would have to be validated by the different production numbers, so you could finally have a positive or negative value for each aircraft. I would like to see, where each craft would stand.

Yes, I felt the same - my pleasure, hood!

Wow, you lucky man! That must have been an exiting day - you witnessed a very rare occasion there! There isn't too much to understand with Lozenge camo fabric. I guess it was introduced because it saved the weight of all that green, brown or mauve paint you would otherwise apply on the wings. Another reason is the way, Lozenge camo "splinters up" the object . On a captured Albatros, a British photographer realised, how hard it was to get a black-and-white picture, that allows you recognise the whole shape of a camouflaged wing. The patterns are made up of polygons of 5 or 4 colours (different for upper- and undersurfaces). They are applied on the fabric per screen printing. The pattern is made so, that the next part you print fits in to the zaggies of the previous. So you could make "endless" prints on the fabric, which was probably a roll of quite some length.

Do you have a laptop on your chest, Tranquillo? Nurse - if you read this - don't give him the joystick! No white-knuckle fighting the next 10 days, pilot!

Blimey, the Eini - the craft is okay for it's time - once you got to grips with it Us Marine (Navy) boys were out to the northern end of the line, by the sea. We got jumped by several Nieuports there, and I must say: we could hold our own quite well. Together with my wingman, I even managed to bring this "red little devil" down. Does anyone know who he is? Garros perchance? Must look him up. And is this a Nieuport 11 or Nieuport 16 ? I'm not so familiar with the characteristics of the two types.

She can be a bitch. I have flown two short-lived campaign attempts in the DH-2, and with WOFF I will definitely try a serious British campaign starting with her again.

No wonder you feel weak, Tranquillo - it will take a couple of days, before you will be on your pins again, I guess. Maybe they can tell you what to eat and drink the next time, to reproduce blood. And don't be unpatient with yourself - be a good patient. Those who love you will care and do their best, I'm sure. Give your apparatus the time to recover. All the best (but don't ask your Irish nurse for Irish whisky!) :good: Olham

Not through it's difficult characteristics, may be. But there were nasty wing failures with the Fokker Dr.1, which killed for example Gontermann. Who knows, how many non-famous pilots were killed by breaking lower wings on Albatros D.III and D.V versions? And then the Fokker E.V had wing failures again. When I side-slipped unwillingly with my Fokker E.III at low altitude yesterday, I noticed how I first got ham-fisted, trying to counter that move - without any chance of success. Only when I did the most frightening thing I could think of in that situatuion - pushing the nose down and kick rudder to bring the nose towards the ground - only then I could just catch her up, before she would crash into some trees. I must have brought some leaves back with my undercarriage.

Yeah, I bet he didn't like it either. For those more fragile early kites, getting hit by a close burst from two MG must have been devastating. Maybe he could have managed a landing still, had he not turned upwards in such a crazy angle. That craft is hard to catch up, when it stalls, and he had too little space - he slammed in.

Thanks for the detail, Gepard. I kept it simpler, cause it didn't matter for my report, wether it was the GDR or still only just the Soviet zone. I didn't know the details about the way of the currency change; good info!

What he means, Alexander, is the "old" "Quick Combat", which has to be started from within "Workshops"; bottom line, CFS QC.

Alexander, my memory is rather - scrambled eggs style. But I believe to remember, that the additional, user-made aircraft models can only be used within user-built missions. Is that correct - anyone? There are missions like "Olham's Gotha Escort" (by RAF_Louvert), which I had downloaded the Gothas for. And then they worked - but only in that mission. And don't ask me, where I had to place them, Alexander - it's too long ago.

I'm with you on point 2, Hauksbee - better firm and beautifully formed than large and... ah, let's better stop this macho talk, before the moderators feel, they must.

Hmmm - makes one wonder, why they have two medals for a very similar reason. I'd say they could have used the "Airbridge" medal for the other causes too? And the old one even looks a tad better IMHO. Damn, the military - they'd ask everything back from you, what they can. Arthur Gould Lee or Cecil Lewis - one of them had landed his scout in a terrain, which was a bit later overrun by the Germans. He remembered the flight watch and ran back to the craft under threat of life, to get it out of the aircraft cockpit. He then wanted to keep it as a wartime souvenir. One or two days later, he received a message - they asked him to hand over the watch the other day in the morning.

St.Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial In OFF I am operating in the area east of Verdun right now with Jasta 5 (1916, from Porcher). My first victory was over a Sopwith Strutter, near the German airfield at Thiaucourt. So I noted longitude and latitude, and investigated the aerea via GoogleMaps. This way I found the PANORAMIO Photos of the "St. Mihiel American Cemetry and Memorial". I thought, perhaps our Americans here would like to see those too. Here's the link: https://ssl.panorami.../photo/73474115 .

Next time you send them a copy of the James Dietz painting with you - they can't beat you off then anymore. Good luck next time, Jarhead!

Update 16 June 2012 - 11:43 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) Alexander48, California added The maps are in post 1 of this thread

Hmm, you got me wondering there - I had thought I used Herr Prop-Wasche's DM. But I don't see anything like "DM" in my JSGME Generic Mod Enabler. Or how is the DM named? HPW? Anyone?

von Baur, I wish your son a safe return - I can imagine how happy you must be.

Widowmaker on British TV - how desperate must they be?

Started a new campaign with Jasta 28w with their first day - 2 April 1917. They were in the thick of it from the beginning. So on my first patrol over Lille, I sighted many British SPAD VII pestering three Albatros just over the lines. We went for help, and I shot one SPAD down. Then I got hit, and 3 SPAD began to hunt me down. Eventually I received a hit in the left upper wing, which reduced all lift so much, that I was sinking like a stone. I came down in the middle of no man's land, and the left lower wingtip touched the ground. No aileron- nor rudder movements could get the craft up and on both wheels again. But the engine was still running. Now I did a kinda "side-skidding" on the left wingtip and only the left wheel, to get to our own side. It was hilarious! From all around, the Tommies were shooting at me with all the had! Then came trench section with sandbag walls! There were small gaps inbetween these walls, and I really managed just to get through there with my strange vehicle. I went motoring on like that, until the fire towards me changed into fire against the SPADs above me - I had reached our own lines. In outside view I counted 6 SPADs, mad as hornets! When I reduced throttle, I could get the Albatros D.II back onto both wheels. This way I "drove" into a forrest raod, where I was safe. No idea, what you would have done, guys - I was just laughing a bucket full.

Good idea, HumanDrone! Now, where's our president, to declare the pub open?

Hmmm - ... I have read the trilogy, and Noomi Rapace played Lisbeth Salander very well. Only the look, the physics I had expected more child-like - Rapace is definitely physically stronger. She played Lisbeth very well, like she was described in the books.