Olham

No, I better go to bed - and hope this will be over tomorrow.

What must I do to stop this??? Fortunately the devs have already decided about the name for OFF II. You guys are mad - and I'm virtually drunk from my virtual Warsteiner.

Thank you, von Paulus and Shiloh - thanks for the virtual Warsteiner - Prost! Shredder, you shouldn't have told them - better keep the nimbus you devs have so well deserved.

No fog in the head; you just made me blush a bit, but they won't see that under my lamb skin face mask. My pleasure, when it helped you and everyone who loves OFF - it was for a good reason then, wasn't it?

The sortie and forced landing near Fontaine Arthur Gould Lee described as shown above, happened between the 22nd and 24th of November 1917. Now I found this aerial photography of Anneux and Fontaine-Notre-Dame - it was taken only ten days later, on 2 December 1917. We can see Anneux in the front left corner; Fontaine-Notre-Dame in the background. Lee's second forced landing must have been more or less in the center of this photo. Note the tank tracks! About the notations on the photo: Photo Reference 12.L.O.31. Area Fontaine Notre Dame; Cambrai. Year 1917 Month 12 Day 2 Time 10:00:00 Oblique Yes Annotation on Front "U" printed in black ink. Annotation on Back "Taken for 3rd Army Attack of Bourlon wood. Dec 1917 (note tank tracks)." written in pencil; number 13 printed and circled in pencil; "3rd 3, 4th 5, ...order-100" written in blue pencil.

A very big THANK YOU indeed, to all of you working so efficiently quiet in the background of this forum!

"Terrain Detail" seems to be the resolution of the "terrain patches"; which make the texture for the ground surface. "Scenery Detail" seems to be a variety of objects added, the higher you go. Maybe Winder or Pol could clarify that.

Ah, okay, thanks, PanamaRed. My sliders are set to: Aircraft: 5 Terrain detail: 3 (anything higher I found too grainy) Scenery detail: 5 Effects quality: 5 Clouds: 5 I guess you're right - it must be the "Scenery detail" slider.

Hasse Wind, I've just revisited the website of "Jasta11", where you can see original parts and the restauration progress of a Rumpler C.IV - seems Koloman Mayrhofer is doing the job. Has anyone more info on this? See here: http://www.jasta11.co.uk/page3.htm There I also found this excellent photo of three Albatros (type?) recon aircraft in flight:

Looking rough outside, but when it was from ZEISS you can bet it was top notch hightech in those days.

I guess they came up, when I put "ground object density" on "high". In my ATI "CatalystControlCenter" I have selected the following settings: Anti-Aliasing: 16x Anisotropic Filtering: 16x Tesselation: AMD-optimised Catalyst A.I. Texture filtering quality: high quality Texture optimisation: activated Mipmap Detail Level: High Quality Wait for vertical refresh: Always on (High quality) Anti-Aliasing Mode: Super-Sampling OpenGL Setting: Triple buffering To be honest: I don't know, what "Tesselation" or "Triple buffering" really do.

Yes, there is; thank you Sid - I have also moved it fully up. It is just a question of graphic card quality, how good OFF will look, and a question of CPU speed, how well it will perform. I have finally got a very good system for both.

Nice to hear, that the DH-5 has a fan, Sid. Please send some pics in the "Screenshots" thread north from here.

Good info here; mostly new for me, who has only read about fighter squadrons - thank you guys!

Yes, shoot at the one behind the locomotive - I think they even get shot off, and roll out. Then you can destroy them one after the other. (Or did I only dream that? Not sure...)

Thank you, Si - I am glad you liked it. Since I had read the book, I always wanted to do this.

As far as I remember, you can damage at least the box cars. Not sure about the lokomotive though.

Thank you guys! And if anyone has not read the book yet - I think it is a top read among all English books about WW1 air war; together with Cecil Lewis' "Sagittarius rising".

Very touching, when after all this time the traces can still be found, and read - as if it was only some years ago.

You mean they really could still find the shell casings from the guns of General Custer?

La Folie Wood is east of the landing point, Carrick - it's not the Bourlon Wood, which is north of Bourlon. When you look at my GoogleMap, you'll see, that the distance between La Folie wood and the sunken road is well within range of a machine gun. (The sunken road is the one leading to Fontaine in north-south direction). The "sunken road" is only one of six roads all leading in to / out of Fontaine; plus the main road from Cambrai. The Germans would have rather used the north-easter ones, I guess, while the British must have come from west-southwestly direction. Jarhead, if you should ever buy a piece of land there after retirement, and you need help with digging...

Thank you, Shredward! Here are the other two "photos" I took in StreetView, from Lee's landing spots at Anneux (2) and Graincourt (3).

That's interesting how you modern firemen can really often trace back, where and how a fire started. Like CSI for fires. You must have got really soaked by that rainfall - is it at least warmer there in Lousy Anna, than it is here? We only have 8° Celsius - not so good for being all soaked by heavy rain.

Shiloh, if you have never flown the Fokker E.V / D.III, you should give her some time. She climbs and turns quite well. A backdrop is the very thick wing, which blocks the view very much. I wonder, if the real craft had the view blocked so much. I don't believe that the Jastas had very pinned down regulations about how a plane had to be painted. They seem to have rather followed each other with certain basics like the black tail. But when you look at Viktor Schobinger's craft, it drops out a bit. For my own kite, I interpreted the hallmark black tail a bit individually - and I'm pretty sure that would have been absolutely okay for the commanding officer.

Olham marauding over Morchingen Aerodrome You may think: now he's gone insane! Rioting over Morchingen; firing tracers into some Albatros from his Fokker E.V - this is not the Olham we knew. Indeed! Try something new and different! Why not? No, this was actually only the testing for some graphic card settings I had made, and the cute little Fokker (great for ground attacks actually - climbs out like a devil!) is seen here far too rarely. Attacking the own fields is good for practising - they didn't even fire back at me. Must have been quite painful for them to watch that German lunatic! Mmuahahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!