Olham

The colour saturation is probably a matter of taste. Winder's landscapes are "knitted" so good, they can even be driven with your richer colour as in your videos, without looking less good. But I find that the hazyness, the dampened colours of northern Europe are caught quite well with the original settings. Hellshade, you probably have chosen a wrong FoV setting - your Albatros looked badly distorted in width. Or did you only zoom out too much - not sure? If you like, send me your screen resolution, and I can calculate 3 possible variations of the FoV for your monitor. .

Naw, I never said that, did I? I also fly mostly one side - the German side. It's from the immersion - it warps me back in time and history, and where would I have been fighting? German side. (But for OFF II I am planning to fly serious campaign pilots on British and French side too). It's easy to be a good dancer in a Tripe, you know? But I'm joining that dancing business with wooden clogs on, every day. You saw how hard it is - turn-fighting is not the only art in here! Damn, now I answered before I checked out your videos - will do now.

I bet that those wealthier Londoners, who had thought they had managed to stay clear from the war, and possibly made good business earnings through the war, were now calling loudest for something to be done against the Gotha menace. Chaps, there is a fine mission in the downloads, which RAF_Louvert has written for me: "Olham's Gotha Escort" http://combatace.com...escort-mission/ Fly the Albatros and try to accomplish both mission tasks - it's a thriller, if you fly it without Labels and TAC! .

Thanks to Carrick, who posted links for the "Bloody April" docu parts on YouTube. Now I looked into them and found filmed assembly of an Albatros D.III - never seen that before! Great stuff - thanks again, Carrick! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=000n3XP5dso

You seem to have a better memory than me about my own things, elephant. But now that you say it, there comes a feeling of déja-vu... Damn - I get old... .

Yes. If you can get at them. Mmuahahahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!!! .

I couldn't find a real aerial night view, so I faked one from a picture of Dumbarton Castle. But you get the idea - moonlight has different tone and quality - but it is still light.

In nights with moonlight, you can see a lot from the air - your eyes get used to it, and the moonlight is often really bright, when there are not too many clouds. Especially rivers and other water surfaces reflect a lot of light and are helpful for navigating.

Well, maybe one possible tactic - but it feels bad, doesn't it? Or are you one of those pilots who rushes into the mess at lunch first, to make sure you get all the puddings of the pilots you left behind?

Isn't it really bad? I see, you know exactly what I was talking about. Good luck for the future!

What a convincing interpretation!!!

Not sure wether it was Arthur Gould Lee or Cecil Lewis - one of them described how they had to fly at dusk. When they wanted to return to base, it was meanwhile totally dark, and they had to find it first. The ground crew would light cans filled with petroleum or something like that, when they heard engine sound. They also had strong lamps, which were shining in a direction opposite from the front lines over the runway; and also only switched on, when an aircraft approached. The author once made a landing guided by a light - of a motorbike on a country road! If you never read "No Parachute!" or "Sagittarius rising" - do it! Both books are absolutely great!

Shiloh, I can't say "enjoy it", cause it is quite hard in wide parts, but you know what I mean. "Das Boot" is for me one of the top rank films about the second world war. Although the author Lothar Buchheim found it still too movie-like, I as one who has not been there, find that it brings the whole story, the claustrophobic athmosphere closer to me than I sometimes wanted. After watching it, I needed a shower - I felt like stinking from oil, bilge water and two-weeks-old sweat. From all I've read here in this forum before about the film, it is able to make you feel deeply with the submarine crew - no matter which nationality - and that makes it at the same time a "war movie" and an anti war film IMHO. .

Undere englischsprechenden Freunde kennen diese Dokumentation bereits - nun gibt es sie auch mit deutschem Sprecher. Für akulawien und alle und unseren deutschen Mitgliedern, die nicht so gut Englisch verstehen. Duell am Himmel - Die ersten Fliegerasse (5 Teile) Teil 1 Teil 2

Not for me, von Paulus, I get 1683 - maybe because I have blocked all scripts? Anyway - maybe the Mayans could just not write it on and on for eternity. They would have chiseled a new one - had they not perished.

That count says 1683 days? That should be plenty of time for the devs - that's still almost five years. But hey, Pol and Winder - no reason to stretch it that long, okay?!

Yeah, we're all drooling for OFF II here, I guess. But the OBD Team is rather a small one, and they need to build a lot, and then to improve lots more of the old stuff, and then they must make a test version and check it intensively; the all found mistakes and problems must get resolved etc. etc. They are possibly the only team that will release only when they are ready with it all. And I know that they often work until 03:00 h - 04:00 h in the night. No begging will help us - they will release when it's ready. (You could perhaps try to bribe them, if you had a million, but I'm not sure if we would like the result then?)

Teil 3 Teil 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=9tlYWymFF70 ...und zuletzt Teil 5:

akulawien, here's a video from YouTube with coloured film, and a German speaker - enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHs-T3X1BP8&feature=related

Yes, I know. In OFF, when you fly the Eindecker, you can see the metal roll, over which the cables/wires moved to warp the wings, when you moved the stick left or right-

These early craft had no ailerons - they warped the whole wing via wires. At least the Fokker Eindecker did - not really sure about the Morane. Anyone here?

No, that is a Morane Parasol - the early French monoplane. We will get them in OFF II, which will hopefully make more people fly the early war time.

Yeah, the poor souls - flamers seem to make the killing even more violent. They crashed quite a bit off the lake though.

For this Albatros I have made a new Mauve-Green camo. JFM wrote to me, that the darker tone on the B+W photos was most likely the green; so I used Fokker's dark green here. Then I made a slightly lighter Mauve after the tone used in the Lozenge patterns. Wether it is historically correct or not - I liked what I had got. I used it on an early Albatros D.V - that is the originally delivered version with the headrest. This was later mostly removed by the Jastas for better vision, and finally given up by Albatros. But I wanted to fly one of these with an own skin, and here it is for all to use now. Jasta 10 was one of the four Jasta of "Richthofen's flying Circus" (Jasta 4, Jasta 6, Jasta 10 and Jasta 11) - they were always in the thick of it. When they had the D.V they were in northern Flanders. So, if you want a lot of action, this skin could be the right one to use. Enjoy! Many thanks to the OBD Skinners, who created the immense output of over 3.400 skins for OFF. I work from their original works and would have been lost without that. The skin needs to get approval by the Forum moderators, but it should be available later today.

Seeing through the aerial photographs at McMaster University, I found this picture. It is said to be over Polygone (wood?) of Zonnebeke. First I though it would show an S.E.5a, but the annotations say it is probably a Sopwith Strutter 1 1/2. I spent quite some time looking at it. Looking at the black&white freeze of a moment in time, 94 years, 9 months and 18 days ago. Looking down a crew, who are both already dead now. In this frozen moment they may be around twenty. Did they survive the Great War? Did they realise the recon craft above them? Or were they an escort craft for it? Did the observer, who made the photo, realise that aircraft, that was slipping into his picture? However - I always find such finds somehow touching - makes me remember them. The Info to the photography: Area: Polygone De Zonnebeke Year: 1917 Month: 6 Day: 12 Annotation on Front: No North arrow. Annotation on Back: AIRCRAFT FLYING TOWARDS POLYGONE DE ZONNEBEKE. AIRCRAFT IS PROBABLY A SOPWITH 1 1/2 STRUTTER OF 70 SQUADRON R.F.C. printed in pencil. .