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Here is a vertical insight into the Fee's nacelle. .

Javito? Short story?? How does this sometimes happen, that I overlook posts? That is a very melancholic, heart-touching story, Sir!

In most airshows, the Fokker Triplane (and maybe all other aircraft) are often flown rather carefully, like they were raw eggs; and you rarely ever see, what they might have looked like in combat. The pilot in this video demonstrates at least a little bit more, and I was asthonished to see, how fast the Triplane could get in a dive! And watch the take off - it goes up almost vertically!

Hey, Wayfarer, that is another beautiful piece of poetry here! Even classic somehow!

A tether??? You wimp! Guys like us are not made anymore! We used to fly hands free! We won the war single handedly!!! How old are you now? Fiftythree? Huh - at your age I was already sixty, son! A tether - tch!! (Photo courtesy of THE VINTAGE AVIATOR / GHOSTS CALENDARS)

When I fly in formation, I often fly higher than the others - sort of high cover. When I rejoin them then, I come down with much more speed/energy. When I tend to overshoot, I not only reduce throttle but also pull the stick back. That way you can reduce speed. Of course you climb a little again, but not so much, due to the reduced throttle.

Do you understand any German, or was it just for the authenticy, Capitaine? I watched "L'Instinct de l'Ange" in French. It was often impossible for me to follow the fast and naturally spoken French, with my poor school knowledge. But it felt much more realistic, and I guess I got enough to follow it. The film is based vaguely on Guynemer; but it has a very odd end. What I liked about it was to see the Morane monoplanes in action (although "action" mustn't be valued with Hollywood measures here). Not a must-see film.

Hihihi - that reads totally different to your avatar name, Capitaine Vengeur - and only human.

... ... Women's balloon corps? ... Can I think about it again???

Although I'm usually flying fighters in OFF, I could imagine to have become an observer, who was actually the leader and higher rank in the two-seaters. I would habe photographed the enemy positions and dumps and airfields (if they'd had me). From there, I might still have moved to the fighters - you know, I like the Albatros, and in it I don't have that feeling of canvas & wood fragility.

Update 8 Septembery 2011 - 19:22 h Berlin summer time (= GMT + 2) CaptOReiley, England, squeezed in somehow. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

I ditto that from von Paulus! Gents, I already liked the DH-2 and thought of another carrer, flying one. But with your new kites - look at the wood and brass and the gauges in the cockpit! - you will get me lured into their cockpits more than definitely!

Before anybody misses this: These pictures are resized to 71 % - that means you can click at them to see the amazing details close on. I just did that and was stunned by the nacelle and engine details of these aircraft! Great stuff, Winder, Pol and Sandbagger - just wonderfull!

You know you did not find the medal, Lou, don't you? The medal found you. Congrats again, old chap!

Just read about Josef Jacobs, Jasta 7, in "Above the Lines". When I read, that he later rejected Goering's call to the Luftwaffe, I thought "Hey, who was that man?" When I then read, that he had moved to Holland with his aeroplane building company, and that he had been hiding, when Goering came to see him (Jacobs had refused to let Goering become a main shareholder of his company), the Pour-le-Mérite owner had gained my sympathy. Jacobs kept the Fokker Dr.1 as long as October 1918, when the rest of the Staffel had long got newer craft. I have never flown with the black fighters from Jasta 7 - now I will create a pilot there. http://en.wikipedia....ki/Josef_Jacobs

I guess it is never simply a black & white picture, CapitaineVengeur - thanks for those details. I had actually never heard of Albert Goering and his deeds - thanks for that, Hasse Wind.

For all who want softer Label colours and a smaller TAC screen, I have uploaded my version of the "ViewUI.xml" for you. If you want to return to the default one, you only need to delete it, and change the "Master Copy of ViewUI.xml" into "ViewUI.xml". The file has to be placed here (in VISTA or Win 7): (your computer name) > AppData > Roaming > Microsoft > CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields Perhaps a Windows XP user can add here, where the file path is there?

Here is a website to the memory of the 12.000 fallen German Jewish soldiers of WW1: http://www.germanjewishsoldiers.com/memorial.php

PS: I looked it up; and here is an excerpt from "The Jew with the Blue Max" (about Wilhelm Frankl): "The other Jewish member of Jasta 26, was Jakob Wolf. ( ... ) Wolf also scored some victories, and even after the war, he proved that he was a faithful comrade, when his former Jasta leader came to him requesting help. As most of these officers did not like to work, Wolf made him chief of one of the many cigar shops, which he owned. And Loerzer was glad to have found this job. It is not widely known, but Loerzer was later engaged to the daughter of the Jewish owner of a lead- ing departement store in Berlin. He also obtained money from these people. After 1933, Loerzer forgot all of his Jewish friends who had helped him and also his friend Goering."

Nazis are "low-profile" people. They are not all stupid, but mostly ignorant, and they want to be the better people, although they recrute their followers among the losers of the society; and they recruit their soldiers among the most pig-ignorant and the brutal and stupidest. In WW1 the jews were still rather integrated in the German society. But it was their almost general will, to be people of a certain value and class; they educated their children better, they cared more for their carreers; they would be found in professions like scientists and doktors and engineers and businessmen. Not all of them of course, but a much higher percentage than among other Germans. In that they succeeded so much better in doing that generally, they became objects of envy and hatred for many. The loser always searches for someone, who is even below him. Believe it or not: I have once witnessed two American coloured men walking on Berlins Ku'damm (a shopping street), and they pointed at three other coloured men in long colourful caftans and with fez-like hats; and they said: "Look at 'em African niggers." I couldn't believe it, but it is a good example for what I mean. I don't think, that normal single people could have done very much, once the Nazis had established their power. But what I find really sad is, that Jasta comrades of Jewish WW1 pilots later often denied the comradeship, and let their Jewish comrades alone in the brutal machinery. I read about a German ace pilot, an officer who couldn't find him "decent" work after the war (was it Loerzer?); and he asked a Jewish comrade. The Jew helped him and made contact to another jew, and the German officer got a job through the, Later, when Goering "collected" him for the Nazis, he denied the Jewish comrades; he forgot about the help. That is something I find just lousy - lousy and chicken-livered.

Our north-eastern Bundesland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has the lowest population of all German states. It is mainly agricultural, and rather financially poor. The NPD (Nationalsozialistische Partei Deutschlands) had sent many Nazis there after Germany's re-unification, to infiltrate the politics there. They failed fortunately. The Ministerpräsident Sellerin was elected again, They succeeded in building more work places there, and their overall politics was general very well accepted. The NPD had losses at this last election.

I know from all their comments, that they are absolutely determined to get it as realistic as any possible. So, whatever necessary to achieve that - they will struggle towards it. In that I trust.

Hasse Wind, I am almost certain, that Pol (or Winder?) wrote exactly that will be in P4. According to history, the squadrons will have more than one plane type.

It is difficult, or even impossible for us sophisticated post-WW2 people. I guess, his energy fascinated a population, who was feeling very, very low - without them believing in every word he said. But everything is only just attempts to relive a time and the common attitudes and the Zeitgeist of a time we haven't lived in. And hopefully never will.

That's in better detail, what I meant to say, Creaghorn. And the "man with the moustache" looked very father-like in the beginning, when his face wasn't yet famous for the outrageous deeds, that we knew later. My mum once told me, what she talked with her best girl friend, when they heard, that Hitler was dead. They were 13, and they had been in the Hitlerjugend; had welcomed the grand picture and gestures of the "Uberfather"; they both had lost their fathers early; and now that Hitler was dead, her girlfriend said to her: "Now we have only each other in this world..." When she later heard about the Holocaust, her whole world, her belief in human nature, collapsed; and it took a very long time to recover, very slowly. She still doesn't trust any politicians anymore - but that may be rather healthy.