Olham

Dej, I received a mail with only just a web link in it. I typed it off, opened a Tab and inserted it. It changed into another line, and I saw the first page of "Business Journal". When I repeated it, I came to another Journal. Perhaps this can help you or our pc-cracks?

Yes, everyone in Germany with a name like that simply calls himself "Schmidt", "Schmitt", or "Müller". "Meyer" is out of fashion since Görings change of name.

Is anyone flying the AIRCO DH-2 ? Or have you ever tried a campaign in this aircraft? I tried it out, and will do another campaign with it in OFF II. I like this video - at 0:48 you can see the pilot moving through all control surfaces. Enjoy!

Ah, yes, now I remember - I have seen the Hansa-Brandenburg back then - great job!

"Forreign lankwhich?! Vatt forreign lankwhich doo yoo mean, mein Herr? Zatt is my nativ Dsherrman!" Yes, indeed. Cecil Lewis (or was it Arthur Gould Lee?) described in his book, how he was on leave, or he had just signed up, but was still in civil dress. Two London ladies stop and hand him a white feather - the sign for cowards. He reacted great; he said: "Sorry, madam, but my mother told me not to take anything from strange ladies!"

My German test pilot for all sorts of new setups or aircraft manoeuvers is "Flieger Hans Wurst". A "Hans Wurst" (Jack Sausage) is a nobody, a constant failure. His English counterpart is Dudley "Dud" Downer.

Hey, that video even shows what happens with the overdose of petrol and castor oil, that keep flowing into the non-igniting cylinders - that white smoke looks quite realistic to me. Great stuff, Lou - will set it up like that!

Thank you for the info, Lou. I think you had described somewhere, how a blip-switch could be simulated in OFF? Unfortunately I forgot where.

Just had to "Reset OFF Manager", cause it couldn't match it's entries with the existing pilots. What happened? Well, I had opened the "Pilots Dossiers" and deleted my first pilot in there. I only EVER delete a pilot, when I want to create a new one. I have noticed, that the OFF Manager can get confused, when you only delete a pilot, without making a new one. If you make a new Pilot right after deleting one (without leaving OFF inbetween!), it will normally get placed at the same page like the deleted. In other words: if you delete Pilot No. 7 in your "Pilot Dossiers", the new pilot will be No. 7 again. This keeps up the whole order for the OFF Manager. In my case today, after deleting Pilot No. 1, the new created pilot got placed at the end of them all (in my case Pilot No. 23). The space for No. 1 remained empty - and the OFF Manager seemed to get confused by this. So my advice to everyone: 1. When you delete a pilot, create a new one right after that. 2. Just for precaution never delete Pilot No. 1 If this was discovered and explained here before, I'm sorry, then I missed it.

Yeah, I know what blipping is, but my question was: what is that throttle-lever-like handle in OFF's DH-2, when the craft had no throttle?

Just had to "Reset OFF Manager", cause it couldn't match it's entries with the existing pilots. What happened? Well, I had opened the "Pilots Dossiers" and deleted my first pilot in there. I only EVER delete a pilot, when I want to create a new one. I have noticed, that the OFF Manager can get confused, when you only delete a pilot, without making a new one. If you make a new Pilot right after deleting one (without leaving OFF inbetween!), it will normally get placed at the same page like the deleted. In other words: if you delete Pilot No. 7 in your "Pilot Dossiers", the new pilot will be No. 7 again. This keeps up the whole order for the OFF Manager. In my case today, after deleting Pilot No. 1, the new created pilot got placed at the end of them all (in my case Pilot No. 23). The space for No. 1 remained empty - and the OFF Manager seemed to get confused by this. So my advice to everyone: 1. When you delete a pilot, create a new one right after that. 2. Just for precaution never delete Pilot No. 1 If this was discovered and explained here before, I'm sorry, then I missed it.

Sorry, but I cannot make "stickies" - only the OFF Moderators can do that. Edit: I have posted the first post there too now.

Why a blip-switch? In the cockpit of the DH-2 seems to be a real throttle at the left? Or what is it? It moves fore and back, when I push my throttle slider??? Hauksbee, it wasn't meant as a nasty critic - just putting facts right. Did you build these planes? They are not from a sim? .

I am a graphic designer, and so I use Photoshop, Adger.

Especially the airfield attack looks great, Adger - nice to see some craft which are not so common here.

Hauksbee, that is indeed an Albatros D.III you modeled there - but von Richthofen was flying a D.II, and it was not red at all. It was factory style, with only a white ring band round the nose.

Lou, nice video and good advice definitely. One point though - you seemed pretty carefree about your six - without a wingman or a read view mirror. Must be almost too reassuring, to have a rotating engine behind you. Edit: you get your turns done better than me - your right turn banks are damn hard - good job!

Damn, you're correct, Lanzfeld! Maybe there are not too many rotaries around anymore? Lou, my lucky "Blighter" survived the shredding process (thanks to "Die roll at death", I think), and now his fingers got burnt he will make sure next time, that he sees a clear sign to attack those "Walfisch" - which should rather be named "Hai" (shark). Oh, the high jinks of youth - you had to learn quick back in 1916!

Just flew a campaign mission in late July 1916 with No. 24 Sqdn RFC, and - boy! - the Eindecker maybe a scourge I could halfways deal with (although I couldn't get one down), but then we met 4 Roland C.II, which shot me left wings off! I dived on their formation, but I had forgotten how they operate! The split immediately, and I got fired after from various angles! (Maybe that was the reason why the rest of the flight did NOT attack these fellers!).

You must be a fanboy really to defend the DH-2 that hard, Dej. I'd love to see a duell of you in a DH-2 vs Hasse Wind in a Halberstadt; or against me in an Albatros D.II. We must not forget, that the DH-2 had her maiden flight on 1 June 1915; the Halberstadt D.II in February 1916; and the Albatros D.II appeared at the front late September 1916. So it would in fact be unfair to compare the aircraft too much - 8 months were a long time in the fast development of aircraft in that war. I like the crate somehow, and I will learn to fly her better in future. As for Major Hawker, I must say it is amazing how long he managed to turn-fight with von Richthofen, who couldn't seem to really get behind him, before Hawker had to break off for returning over his lines. .

Gawd - did they really still fly them in 1917 ???! That's homicide!

Yes, it is - but they could have met in RL, couldn't they? I have just done 2 QCs in an AIRCO DH-2 against a Halberstadt D.II (set to "ace"). In the first one I simply crashed in a too tight turn - I had forgotten how tricky "Mrs. Beastly" is. In the second attempt, I got into a shooting position only once, but it went well, and the Halberstadt produced black smoke. When I finally got behind it again, it crashed before I could fire. I had to make clever use of rudder, and I needed to gain speed with dropping the nose, for turning. Not so good, when you are already quite low!

Lou, you are one of those flyers who fully take into account, which period an aircraft was built in - no use comparing it with the Fokker Dr.1 or D.VII of course. When OFF II is released, I will try it again and see, how well I can handle it against early German aircraft. (I still hope we will see at least one early Fokker type). I have never met a Halberstadt in an AIRCO - I must try that in a QC.

Wow, you honoured it well with those "old photographs", Adger - thank you!