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Think it was just British humour, elephant. Here is MvR's 66. victory claim.

Damn - another video I can't see in Germany, for copyright reasons!

Yeah, and the poplars are German. Planted long before the war by far-seeing army engineers, disguised as the French impressionists Monet & Manet.

Okay, I give up...

Great find, elephant! I still haven't seen them all.

Flyby, changing a Jpeg to greyscale doesn't do the same thing like a B/W film does with colours. It is common WW1 research knowledge, that red appeared darker than blue.

Hihi - why do you, Flyby? Because you think, an English pilot couldn't have such a bad luck? I guess accidents like that happened a lot with those underpowered crates.

Yep. Red appears much darker on B/W film than blue. And the note said "British aviator...".

Yes, I saw that too - thanks!

Well, most "Ostfriesisch Platt" is a regional Plattdeutsch. But the original "Ost-Friesisch" is a real own language. It is now only left "alive" in Saterland near Oldenburg. Saterfriesisch is even under EU protection for regional- and minority languages. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostfriesische_Sprache The rest is already a melange of Dutch, Friesisch and German.

I knew you would bite.

Just found these two handpainted emblems on aircraft fabric at "The Vintage Aviator" website, under "Relics". That amazing site is always worth to visit - there is so much to discover, to marvel about. I wonder if anyone knows, on which aircraft they were attached originally?

When you think you know OFF BHaH... Sandbagger, I rarely ever flew the SPAD XIII, but now I went through the skins and saw (AGAIN !), how many amazing skins there were made for OFF! I saw a SPAD XIII with an all red fuselage; and another with Stars and Stripes on the tail plane. And I understood, how much I still haven't seen yet. But is it a wonder, with more than 3.500 skins? Thanks for the hint - I guess you meant this one; the 49th, 1918:

Think it shows, how natural barriers - like rivers, moors, mountains or gorges - divided people. The ways of traffic we have today are still very young. Even in my childhood days in the 50s, many a road in Ostfriesland was only a clay way. And people had to work all day into the evening, and didn't visit other villages, if not for a very good and rather rare reason. I wonder, if one might perhaps find remains of the Roman's vanished Latin in some very remote mountain villages in Italy?

Guess you had to hold a hand at your mouth to prevent you from laughing out loud? It always fascinates me, how different language can be within the same country, in different areas. I could only just understand this, cause you wrote it. Heard, I might not have caught the meaning. My native Ostfriesland is perhaps the size of London. We speak "East-Frisian" there, which is an own language within Germany, and related to Dutch a bit; but also to old Anglish. Along the Krummhörn, which is an area of only ca. 35 x 10 kilometer, each village has a different East-Frisian! You can really hear, from which town someone comes.

Damn, if that is true, he must have had real good Indian "medicine". I wonder, what you can do with 44 $ - guess it was worth a lot more those days?

Flying is not so easy - and it's always bad when you haven't read the manual!

Good - the skins are here: CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields > campaigns > CampaignData > skins

Last necessary thing: three good bottles of "Old Speckled Hen", I guess?

The best viewing program I know is IRFANVIEW, a free download, which I also use. And yes: you can see through all the skins with it.

Nothing to excuse for - this is rather a good heads-up for all. Something to keep in mind!

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Sun, yes - but nailed to a cross? That's British understatement at it's best!

Just found these wonderfully well presentations of the Mitsubishi "Zero" and the Grumman F6F "Hellcat". Pilot Steve Hinton gives you a walkaround, a detailed cockpit presentation, and the takeoff and flying. Enjoy these close looks on two great fighters. Mitsubishi Zero - Walkaround http://www.youtube.c...15&feature=plcp Mitsubishi Zero - In the Cockpit http://www.youtube.c...feature=related Mitsubishi Zero - Takeoff http://www.youtube.c...ch_response_rev Mitsubishi Zero - Fly-by http://www.youtube.c...feature=related - - - Presenting the F6F Hellcat - Walkaround http://www.youtube.c...feature=related Grumman F6F Hellcat - In the Cockpit http://www.youtube.c...feature=related Grumman F6F Hellcat - Takeoff http://www.youtube.c...THhCPXg&lf=plcp ,

Well, builders and craftsmen in the house can be a real PITA - more than "Simon's Cat", of which I send one video link here to brighten you up a bit: