Olham

You guys are now at the point, where one can possibly recognise the reasons for the Fokker Dr.1's wing failures.

Make sure you followed the correct install and patching order, as in OFF Website here: http://overflandersfields.com/FAQ.htm#Installation_and_settings

This article seems to explain what you want to know, Pips: http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/axes32.htm

The first one, and that with the ambulance truck are keepers IMHO! The Nieuport is the craft I would pick if I started an American campaign. The craft performs quite well, and the top wing fabric failures were mentioned far more than they ever happened. What was more of a bad point was, that the craft often had engine failures, which can get nasty. But in a sim, I like flying it.

Great - remember me when you got the money, Si!

Si, you only need to go to the "Reports from the Front" Thread, and type into the search frame "Vic Timm"; make sure the tickbox "Search this post" is chosen. Here is the result of my search, it begins in July 2010 - perhaps that's what helps you? http://combatace.com...arch_app=forums (I hope they won't shoot me for helping the enemy!) .

Wow, the landscape alone would be great to look at - the alley ways, the meandering river; the great winter scenery! And then this new damage - canvas ripped to shreds by rounds fired from behind, flat over the pilot's head into the wing! This is top-most realistic looking damage! Superb work done, gents!

Wow, that's what I call great lighting - in any meaning of the word! The first pic looks almost like a painting, Shiloh - great stuff!

Gee, what BIG compliments, Widowmaker and Jarhead! Thank you both!

File Name: SPAD XIII Esc 48 1918 Olham File Submitter: Olham File Submitted: 11 April 2012 File Category: Aircraft Skins This is a SPAD XIII skin I did long time ago, but forgot to load up here somehow. Now nbryant asked me in the "Screenshots" thread, why I don't make "Allied" skins - well, here is one for you. The very most of the skin is of course the fine detailed work by one of the OBD skinners. Thank you guys for your incredible amount of wonderful skins! I have made the SPAD rather very clean, like an almost new craft, with all emblems painted on freshly. So, this may not be for the fans of weathering really. I have made the colours of the camo a bit more dynamic, and the emblems really juicy - one could say, it's over the top, but hey, it's fun. Enjoy! NOTE: Unzip the skin into this directory: CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields > campaigns > CampaignData > skins Click here to download this file

True, Javito. Personally, I was touched by the very quiet and slow, but also so imaginative way "My Neighbour Totoro" is told. "Princess Mononoke" is a bigger story, and it's great! Here is a well made trailer for "My Neighbour Totoro":

Well, we are flying a WW1 simulation - so we have to make do with some limitations. Still, we are much better off than the flyers back then - we don't burn, when we're shot down in flames.

I see what you mean about not liking anime too much, von Paulus - the figures all look and move similar. Nevertheless, there are some pearls. Thanks for pointing out "Ghost in a Shell" - never saw it before. I like some of the stuff Miyazaki has done, like "My neighbour Totoro" - a rather quiet immersive little film about a child discovering and befriending the forest spirit "Totoro". On the other hand, he made stuff with fighting and shooting for the elder kids in us all, like Porco Rosso. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIxFvnw7nII&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKHadOHOw78&feature=related

Thank you, nbryant ! Well, the Allied craft don't give me so much freedom fro colouring (if trying to remain halfways historically possible). And then I don't fly Entente side much at all, cause they don't have Albatros. Perhaps you would like my American SPAD XIII - it's with stars & stripes all over. See here: http://combatace.com/files/file/9772-american-spad-xiii/

Will that be a game, or a film?

I don't know the answer, Pips, but I found at least one picture of the prototype. I guess other craft with the same good qualities were easier or cheaper to produce. The sesquiplane wing on the Albatros is much criticised, but I must say, that from my sim experience with flying without Labels and TAC, the overall view is a decisive factor, and the excellent view you have in the Albatros is a great advantage. If dreaming is allowed: I wished there was a sesquiplane lower wing with two spars, stable enough for steeper dives - and the D.V would be a very dangerous opponent. Still was in the hands of good pilots, as the history of the "Golden Triumvirat" in Jasta 5 shows.

After another test-flight with my new Jasta 10 skin (applied some more varnish), I'm back at Heule airfield - and content.

After fying lots of serious campaign with my Jasta 14 pilot I felt like having a go in the action-stuffed Flanders today. But boy, was I weaned of the danger! Without Labels, I was almost permanently under threat, or at least felt like. Nevertheless did I shoot a Triplane and a Nieuport down. But I wonder if I'm getting too old for this sorta thing!

Damn, Hellshade, you caused my adrenaline to flow high up to the brain, when I read the title. But this video contains nothing that is new. Absolutely nothing. I wished they would build another, really good sequel or prequel. I liked the game very much.

Man, you had me worried - I had been thinking you might have emigrated to California or something like that! Gawd, I can imagine what you must have gone through - no OFF, no Forum, no internet at all - that's tough! Good to see you back, Creaghorn!

Easter sunday afternoon. I arrive with my bicycle at the Invalidenfriedhof Berlin (Cemetery of Invalids). The weather is a mix of sunny and clouded, and it is quite cold. I am pushing the bike along the pathes between the sparse graves. There may have been more graves in the better days of the cemetery, but when the DDR (GDR) built the wall, this area became a closed patrol strip - borderland; barbed wire and mines in a ploughed strip, and the concrete wall. Since the fall of the Berlin wall, the cemetery is open for everyone, and some people took their Easter sunday walks here. Still, it was rather quiet. The cemetery lies stretched along the Nordhafen-Kanal. Along the water the remaining graves are scattered - as if the graves had been partly removed for the border line. Only further back it still looks like a cemetary. I found the graves of high ranking German military officers like Helmuth von Moltke or Scharnhorst. But my knowledge about German military is small, and I had come to see the graves of German WW1 aviators. I knew, that Berthold lies there, and I searched for him. I found his replacement gravestone on the highest point under trees. He rests here with the pilots Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Buddecke, Leutnant Alfred Schäfer and Leutnant der Reserve Olivier Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay. Berthold's original gravestone was vandalised - it had carried the inscription: "Erschlagen im Bruderkampf - Für Deutschlands Freiheit" (Slain in a brotherly fight - for Germany's Freedom). Berthold got killed in an after-war street fight - he got knocked down and kicked and then he got shot with his own pistol. Those were hard times in Germany, when rivaling groups and parties fought their fights "for Germany". And the heroes of World War One either were monopolised or they joined the Nazis, hoping they would install new order for a better Germany - with the results we all know only too well. Further down the cemetery I found Ernst Udet - back to back so to say with WW2 ace Werner Mölders. Udet's grave is small and quite unpretentious. Udet shot himself in 1941. He had followed the invitation of his former comrade Hermann Göring to become a high ranking officer in the GermanLuftwaffe, and when he realised he didn't like it on the devil's party, he first drank more and more, and finally he found there was only one way to end the entanglement. In those days it wasn't helping to have a conscience. Kneeling down to get the right angle for the photograph, I saw that someone had lit a candle in the lantern on Udet's grave. That was very touching to see - someone still cares... .

Capitaine, I just compared the longer and more informative German Wikipedia article with the very short French version, and I saw the difference. That "strangled with the ribbon of his own 'Blue Max' " seems to be a legend. He got beaten and kicked, but the mortal wounds were gun shots. That must have been a very desperate time for Germany in general, with a bad morale among the German officers. Seeking to keep the old order up, or to bring about a new stern order for Germany, most of them fell for the Nazis.

Isn't it amazing, how they didn't need any high-tech computer tricks to produce a good atmosphere?

About to build me a tableau with the Staffelführer and some of my comrades in Jasta 14, I was thinking of adding the victories - but the correct victories they had then, in May 1917. First I studied "Above the Lines" and "The Jasta Pilots" to get it right. But when I compared the "Duty Room" data for all flyers, the victory numbers were correct for that date. The data seem to change correctly with the date, and Shredward must be the man responsible for this fine detailed work. Now that's what I call good historical research work - three cheers on you, Shredder! (And here is my little work for adding even more immersion to my recent campaign. The young feller at the right is a non-historical ace, of course - that's my pilot. Wish I'd still be so young - or at least look it - grin).