Olham

Short answers like direct Flak hits. Man, you know how to raise the level of expectations!

Over Flanders Fields "Fate & Glory"

Over Flanders Fields: "Guns in the Sky"

Although the Germans got parachutes sometime in 1918, the majority of WW1 flyers didn't have them (and the German ones didn't always open). I guess it's not a ripoff but rather a compliment for Arthur Gould Lee, if the title of his book would be used. And it's short and it hits. Over Flanders Fields: "No Parachute!" .

Yeah, indeed! In the context of ball games, the word "skinning" is getting a completely different context!?

A ball game??? ? I had always been thinking, that you guys make another WW1 air combat sim?!?!?

Over Flanders Fields: "When War got Wings"

Okay, my fault: I had not checked the time stamp. Sorry, Shiloh and Hellshade. By 26 January 1917, MvR had shot down 18 craft. So he WAS an ace by then.

Yes, that was in early 1917 then, Shiloh. In 1916, Jasta 2 used Halberstadt before they got the Albatros D.I in September. Von Richthofen was in Jasta 2 (CO: Oswald Boelcke), before he became the CO of the newly formed Jasta 11. In Jasta 2, he made his first kills on Albatros fighters.

Well, to be accurate - Manfred wasn't an ace, when he flew the Halberstadt. As far as I know, he made his first kill in an Albatros.

I knew they'd never do it "half-baked". Great news again, Winder!

Signs of life from somewhere under a pile of notes, sheets and print-outs! I love this to happen - just when you think they don't have time to even look into the forum at all, you get a short, but sweet surprise like this one. Good show!

Well, I don't know where you were compared to this drawing, but I remember that I had similar thoughts during attacks on R.E.8s, LIMA. But look at this drawing: I have painted the rear downward angles of fire in there, after the Scarf Ring was moved to the outer positions (red dots). You see, that the guy - if he was agile and good at his job - could cover the WHOLE rear downward field of fire - because the tail section of the R.E.8 is really slim and perfectly built for exactly that.

Duke, the card should be doing good, I guess. But I never had any NVidia cards. A friend of mine sent me this screenshot from his NVidia menue (German of course). You should get there, if you make a right-click on your desktop. The first point under "3D Applications" (or "3D Settings") should contain the choice for to use the application settings or not. If you found that, make sure, that you do NOT want to use the application setting (from CFS3), but the values you have set up in your card's menue. So it would be tick-box 2 or tick-box 3 in his graphic. If you choose 3, you can adjust the slider towards quality. That should be Anti-Aliasing 8x, and Anisotropic Filtering 8x or even 16x.

Duke, I do things like "Auto-Contrast" or changes of brightness. Then I often do local sharpening on just a few parts. But my screens were not that different, when I did not do this stuff yet. My graphic card is an ATI RADEON HD4870 (1GB), which you should get rather cheap now. The newer cards are of course even better, like the ATI 6870 for example. What card do you use right now?

Good one, and very well made! Reminds me of a little drawn joke of just bizarre humour. It was titled "Difficult sports friendships: The Golfer and the Tennis Player" The drawing showed a tennis champ in the very distance, waiting for the ball, and the golfer about to drive off.

What can a man contribute here, who comes from the desert lands of humour? My first choice is like the Beatles for music - you heard/saw them too often to remember, how good they actually were. 1. Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy 2. Monty Python's F. C. 3. Peter Sellers 4. The Blackadder team 5. Loriot I guess, most of you wouldn't know the last name - he was a German humourist, who died only recently. Rest in peace, Loriot! I picked this scetch, because it can be understood without knowing the language. He plays a salesman, who has to wait for his customers a little. His last line is: "The picture hangs wrong..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsiaPcLHusA&feature=related

Thanks, Shiloh - but let's not forget, how often I had to die to achieve this. Carrick, yours don't sound so spectacular, but most believeable to me, Sir.

Well, I'm flying OFF since the late Phase 2, and so I have spent many an hour in varous cockpits - mostly of scouts. As a British pilot with No. 24 RFC, flying the DH-2 in summer 1916, I met German ace Rudolf Berthold. I felt his craft (the Eindecker) was a bit inferiour to my Airco, and I shot him down. (But Berthold survived the war, so I can't have done really well). As a French SPAD XIII pilot, flying from near the North Sea coast (Koolkerke?), I shot down Hermann Goering - also later known as "Herr Meyer" - twice. Both times he fell into the North Sea, which made a mighty splash. Mmuahahahahahahahaaa!!! (I know it's my German Hollywood-Baron laughter, but it fits so well here!) As a German pilot (and I'm flying Albatros versions the majority of all flying) I shot down several British, Canadian, Australian and French aces; of which I cannot remember many of the names. Among them were Mick Mannock, Roderick Dallas, Richard Minifie, Robert A. Little, Arthur Gould Lee (sorry, Arthur - I really enjoyed your great book), ... Mc Gregor, Bernard Beanlands, and several others. One who is still on my mind was Albert Ball in an S.E.5a. We fought over the lines, and he had not at all guessed, that I would fire that long range burst. His craft was partly crippled, before he could even start to show me, what he could do. I felt a bit bad during the following fight because of that. Ball was still flying like a devil; extreme curving at barbed-wire-level! He was hard to hit, but he could never get into the offensive anymore. I still see the bulky craft with the square wings lying on it's right side in a totally banked turn, right in front of me, when I pressed the trigger. He was fully hit, remained banked and slammed in. I was not really proud of the way this was achieved, and I felt I had just shot down one of the very great flyers from the other side.

The commands, I think, work only for the flight leader. The only command that might work for all, would be "Help!" - I would try that one.

I have just made a blank version for all British flyers here after the above one - please feel free to use it.

Sheer terror of addiction!!! But now I have gold medals everywhere. You can use any bomb you want, and often it makes sense to mix them. You can do that by clicking on the bomb choice wheel.

Interesting to see that, LIMA - thanks for sharing. In the right field I believe to read: Kein frl. Flugzeug gesehen (no friendl. aircraft seen) Zeugen: die ganze Staffel (Witnesses: the whole Squadron) Insasse: Lt. Hostetter, tot, ... (Occupant: Lt. Hostetter, dead, ...) No. F 2158. (...probably the names of witnesses...) Geringer Flugbetrieb (low air traffic) ( ... ??? ...)

After a long time, I'll post this video again. It is said to show a Fokker D.VIII with a 160 hp Gnome Monosoupape. That would be the same modification, that Theo Osterkamp from MFJ II ordered for his craft. The regular Oberursel with 110 PS must have been far too weak. Osterkamp wrote, that the craft was very agile, but too slow.

Time to take the Fokker E.V to the skies again, I thought, and gave it a bash. We clashed with angry S.E.5a Viper (very dangerous), and shot 2 of them down. Our Jasta 24 made it a nice co-op of Fokker D.VII and Fokker E.V. We also brought down 2 R.E.8 bombers. But both, S.E.5s and R.E.8s togethe,r also shot down two E.V and 2 D.VII - I guess that's what they call a stalemate.