Olham

Rugby, I had only recently updated to 11.5 (running Windows 7 32 bit, and an ATI HD4870). That is doing fine, and I won't do further updates, as my graphic card is not Direct X11 anyway. 11.5 was safe for me.

Yes, that's a fine composition, TaillyHo. The Albatros brings some colour into the life of that Nupe driver. Mmuahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!

Each time I visit the photo archives of "Wingnut Wings", I find something new. It's the place, where you can see many of Greg VanWyngarden's amazing photo collection. But there are also colour photographs from today; some showing details I had never known before; and all that often in a brilliant quality. Here are some I picked out. If you've never been there: why not have a look? Here are the links: Archive Photos http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/photogallery?categoryid=1 Colour Photos http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/photogallery?categoryid=2 From the "Colour Photograps": an R.E.8 close-up; a Bristol Fighter's service hatch in the wing (in the British roundel); and an LVG C.VI photo, which was colourised From the "Archive Photos": Carl Degelow's Pfalz D.IIIa, parked next to a village street - I found this picture very athmospheric; the combination of a military craft and French or Belgian civilians makes it so authentic, so close, and yet so distant in time.

Yes, sure, BurningBeard, they painted around the crosses, or sometimes even painted them over, and did them new on top of the new paint sheme. Not every Jasta had a signwrite to do it well. The Lozenge was possibly invented to save some weight - all these overcoats of colour must have weighed several additional kilogram.

It is only bad the first times. I had a phase, where I had to do it twice within 10 days. The second time I got very quick - almost professional. Veteran. It pays - now I have already forgotten the trouble, and enjoy it more than ever.

Damn, I'm sorry for that - how far did the Jasta 23 pilot get?

Reinstall is the last measure to take, when nothing else helps. You should first try Reset OFF Manager in Workshops. As this would delete all pilots, you should backup the folders of the pilots you want to keep. Now, if the first step didn't work, you should also try Reset CFS3 in Workshops. Usually the first one will already do the trick. Now, to re-install your pilot(s), follow this instruction: http://combatace.com/topic/37518-off-bhah-reports-from-the-front/page__view__findpost__p__509100 I wish you luck, elephant!

Sorry, elephant, but I won't install any different ace skins, when this could possibly cause such severe problems. I am so very glad that my OFF is running fine right now - I don't want to mess it up. Hope you understand that. I have converted the Grashoff skin back into a bitmap, and the size was correct. Also, that complete file name was written correct. So, whatever it is that causes the problem, must be more tricky. One more idea: make sure you don't have created more ace skins than the Staffel has, according to OFF. Cause, if they have written the number of ace skins in some code somewhere else, one skin more might lead to complications? Just an idea.

Great stuff, LIMA! The German film is showing the two-seater flying over Laon, as I had previously found out. Here is the match of the old and the new situation:

(Original House of Parliament debate sound sample): "Yeah, yeah, yeah! ...."

I started a campaign in September 1917, and the skins did show allright. You have messed something up there. Make sure, that the names are written correctly: off_Alb_DV_later_Ace_t_Jasta 37 1917_Ernst_Hamster.dds And that they are in the right directory: (Your sim folder) > campaigns > CampaignData > skins

Nope - I have also been flying with them in June or July 1917, and they had their personal skins. Udet had an aluminium-grey craft with a black "Lo" on the sides. If you tell me the exact date, I could start a campaign there, to see if I get them then.

Should Windows have made a real development???

As the prop looks okay and unbroken in the last pic, I would guess, that the rotary remained undamaged too. The other accident is a great shame - I wonder how such it could have happened ? Was it very windy? Did they fly too risky? Loosing a complete WW2 fighter like the Mustang is a real pity.

Why not? It is definitely running on my Win 7 (32bit).

Did you check "The Jasta Pilots" or "Above the Lines", both by Norman Franks? (Of course this only makes sense, when you had German ancestors).

Indeed, old chap. I was wondering if there might have been any hiding place for that kid and checked the lake in Google Maps. But then I didn't know which bank you had used. You know, I guess that kid was hiding in a place a grown up might not notice so quick. As a kid I had fooled some grown ups from below the heavy lid of the canalisation. We had entered the system from a canal. Those grown ups didn't get it.

I close my eyes and concentrate on the lake. I can see the lake... with my inner eyes I can see the lake clearly now! There is an island in the middle, with bushes and trees on it. To the north I see an old building - the rest is trees all around the lake. Between the trees and the water I see a walkway all around the lake. It's not gravel or sand - it looks like concrete, or tarred. Now it vanishes...

From the looks, one should think it wouldn't be so difficult to change the existing D.II into a D.I - but Pol once said, that it saw service only shortly, and that it had a far worse forward vision, so no one might want to fly it in the end. How many people fly the Halberstadt? But I am totally convinced, that this OBD team is determined to get the whole wide field of WW1 aviation into OFF - if they live long enough to build it all. But sorry, I interrupted your hynosis - where were you? Sleepy. ... sleepy .... .... (bonk!)

Luck is a very capricious lady, I find. She portions her gifts in pretty differing doses. Men like Manfred von Richthofen or Arthur Gould Lee surely had more than 9 lives to waste. I have lost count, but I had counted 7 occasions in Lee's book, where others would have been dead. In MvR's case these are even more countless; and that bullet, that killed him finally, was more than overdue.

These books about von Richthofen, Udet, Jentsch, Osterkamp and Buckler all were released in that time, and the regime surely had in mind to bait the young with them, as you wrote, Hasse Wind. Many of the aviators from WW1 had the feeling, that the national socialism was the best direction in those days. When Udet realised, where it all went, he had already signed with the devil - and took the only wayout he could see.

...getting a little barmier every day! As you, Mr. President, and you, Mr. Vice President, seem to have agreed on the most barmy way of writing our salute, I will not stand back and use the same. Contact (tink... tink... tink...) Clear! PS: that BOC Sports Day will hopefully be as barmy as this event:

Thank you for the link, Dej! There is still hardly anything re-published in German. And the interest in the field of WW1 aviation - even in the German books - seems to be much bigger everywhere else, outside Germany. But I'll keep looking into AbeBooks - they often have these old German books.

I know that, von Baur. What I meant, is that after this baptism of fire - and getting almost fried carrying that name - he cannot change the name anymore. It's connected to the fate of this guy.

Down in flames, and survived? In Germany we'd call him Leutnant Bratwurst! Mmuahahahahahahaaaaa!!! A Sausage can survive a frying pan! Make the best of him - now you cannot change the name anymore. I wish you luck, Flyby!