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Here is another log from John Pattern, the fighter pilot who shot down Erwin Boehme, commander of Jasta 2, "Boelcke" (green marked line). Got it from the website "Jasta Boelcke" - see here: http://www.jastaboel...me_bio_ger.html

Hey, that's a nice find. I always feel an immediate touch at the heart, when I see such old, original items. Thanks for sharing, LIMA.

Thank you both, guys! The Fokker E.V / D.VIII had much the same rudder as the Fokker Dr.1 Triplane. It is just a mounted rudder, without the tail fin. That seems to give both craft an extreme agility in horizontal turns (the Dr.1 could even perform the "flat turn", which means fully kicked rudder made her turn round "on a plate" in flight, without even banking.

Perhaps it helps to free yourself from the thought, that everything must happen in the program/sim. I mean, after all, we ourselves are also not in there, but in front of our monitor. So, why not do it like me, and use an ordinary note book? I have those beautiful gloss black ones with red corners - called "Chinese notebooks" here. I note the date and time, as well as mission type, mission targets, weather, wingmen names, detailed notes and victories in there. It is so much more fun to have this book in hands! You should give it a try!

You could of course write a more epic claims report - those are getting saved. If you want to change things later, you need to open the text files with editor, change the texts, and save them again. But I can't promise, that it's safe in every way to do so.

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Mine is very direct and immediate. Can first make you dizzy, but for a fighter it fits. I'm also curious - will try yours tomorrow. Thanks! PS: Can you give me the values you used for Motion Control: Speed and Motion Control: Smooth They don't seem to change with the profile. My values are: Speed: 0.9 Smooth: 36

Haha, very good one, Rickity! I guess this one is under copyright protection: OFF: Live And Let Die! OVER FLANDERS FIELDS: FIRST AIR WAR

Creaghorn, would you please zip yout TIT profile and post it here? I'd like to try it out, if I may? Here is the one I'm using now. .

Well, you would have to save the folder "CampaignData" from the sim's folder here (careful, that you follow my way - there are two folders "CampaignData"!): (your sim folder) > campaigns > CampaignData plus the files under: (Your Computer Name) > AppData > Roaming > Microsoft > CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields I still cannot say, if it will work then, but without this, it surely won't.

Over Flanders Fields: High and Low

Thanks for the link, LIMA. I hardly ever fly two-seats, but as opponents the R.E.8 bombers are always doing very well. They can hold their liquour , so to say. They most often fly in V-formations, and they protect each other - my Albatros got damaged by R.E.8s as often as by Brisfits. Dangerous lot!

This is for Hasse Wind, and all who feel more at home in the two-seaters. I am reading Theo Osterkamp's book "Du oder ich" (You or Me), and he had started his military carreer as a long-distance recon observer/photographer. Osterkamp was a Navy pilot, and he became a famous ace with MFJ I and II. (MFJ = Marine-Feldjagdstaffel = Naval Field Fighter Squadron) Osterkamp also flew fighters and scored in WW2 as one of the oldest pilots. See more at "The Aerodrome": http://www.theaerodr...y/osterkamp.php Observer and Acrobat - From Fun to Sobriety Gradually it arose, that each observer had his special field. I had definitely decided for long distance reconaissance with photography. Here too, we had to begin with primitive ways. We made the first tests rather privately with a normal folding camera, as it was in use in those days. But mine didn't resist the strain, and from the very high air pressure, the bellows burst during the first attempt. After that, I let Ica, Dresden, build me a kind of balloon camera after my own design, with a ZEISS TESSAR 3.5/250 mm lens and 9x12 plates. I believe it was one of the first models for aerial photography. I payed for the camera myself; only the construction was taken over by the Inspection. (...) The mounting of the camera was an own special problem. The observer used the front seat, and his downward view was blocked by the lower wing, but we understood the tactical importance of vertical photography. So we attached two vertical rails with the distance of the camera's width on the outside of the fuselage. The camera was moved up and down these rails with a line. This was necessary to be able to change the plates. There was also a Bowden cable to release the shutter from the seat. The real problems began only in the air, when I was aiming, or when I had to change the plates. You couldn't do both from your seat; it was too far back. So it had to be done like this. Arriving near the target, you had to kneel on your seat, facing the pilot. Then you had to attach the snap hook of a telegraph worker's safety belt onto the main wing strut. With one leg you stood on the seat, and with the other on the lower wing, as if you were stepping out. Bending forward, you could then look down through the visor of the camera quite well, and release it with the Bowden cable, once you recognised the target. Next came the change of the plates. To do this, the camera got lifted up with the line, and now you had to use both hands. During these critical seconds, the pilot had to stear the plane with the left hand. With his right hand, he had to grip the belt of the observer and pull him tight to the fuselage, so he wouldn't swing off sideways. The procedure was a bit laborious, but went fine. Nothing for people with a weak set of nerves though. (...) The higher staff and headquarters received them (the photos) with great excitement, and they were handed around with an almost childlike joyfulness. .

No, I guess it wasn't translated. I read it with mixed feelings, because it is obviously written in a "fresh style", as if to lure young Germans into the new Luftwaffe; so you sense the Nazi censor here and there. Theo himself seems to have been quite a humorous, but also not the very sensible type. His descriptions paint a quite reckless, daring young man. I will translate more perhaps, when I find special passages. I am still waitng for something about the Fokker E.V / D.VIII, which he must have flown some time.

... barmier than ever!

For everyone else, who hadn't seen this one yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CIACqpidRM&feature=related

Oh dear, Lou - is your family on holidays? Don't you have any wood to chop? "Evolution" was the title of a pretty silly SF movie about rapidly evolving aliens. It contained some very anal-fixated scenes. Do you really think, that fits us? (I guess, yes?)

A true originator has gone. Rest in peace, Mr. Jobs.

Good tip, thank you - will give it a try!

This one doesn't mean 'fighter planes' but 'fighting men': Over Flanders Fields: Flying Fighters

I like the working title of Peter Jackson's short movie clip with WW1 aircraft, because it mentions, what ground tropps couldn't, but only aircraft could do and had to do every day: "Over Flanders Fields: Crossing the Lines" .

Yeah, well - no need to worry: it will come back.

Well, OFF offers quite a bit of adjustments in "Workshops" for the sounds.

OFF: Above the Lines

Wow, Ras - and I had been afraid you had been fed up with everything after your big water damage some time ago. But instead you have been doing all these great pieces of folk art! They are so lovingly done! I know from my rural home region, that it can still be hard to sell artistic work - even such good pieces - cause the people don't have the fat wallets, and so I wish you all the extra portions of luck, that may be necessary to. My personal favoutire is the Folk Art Eider Duck - a good idea; looks like influenced by Indian spirits; as if the duck carries all the souls of it's ancestors with it. This gave me the kick to start with some WW1 air combat painting, which I had on mind for ages. Great stuff, Ras - carry on!