Olham

Yeah, indeed - I too wouldn't want to miss this button!

Yep - each kill is regarded as the player's kill, and you always fill in the claim forms. You can, by the way, switch over to the observer's seat (F8 or so) and try to do the rearward defense. But my experiences were, that it is better to pilot the craft in a good way, at the same time evasive and to give your rear gunner a good field of fire. The AI pilot will rather fly straight on. I wish you luck and fun with it!

Is that your Alsace pilot you're talking about, Shiloh? Cause my pilots based in the area between Lille and St. Quentin usually had fine weather in July, if it wasn't my OFF-enthusiasm playing tricks on my mind.

Okay - shall we both look out for them?

That's why I mostly start my new Campaigns in May. Spring. Nice weather. Can't stand the rain and grey. We have enough grey weather here in Germany. In OFF, I prefer sunny days.

Another skin I'm just working on: an Albatros D.Va from Jasta 50, Marchais, April 1918. Still needs some work tough.

I did, Dej! I saw two British tanks moving forward to the middle of no man's land once. Not sure if they fired though.

Just found this nice little watercolour painting over at the aerodrome:

Well, you could buy prints from James Dietz or others. I wonder how much they take for a good print, and then for the original painting.

Good info, Capitaine Vengeur. I didn't know, that the tanks had played such an important role already in WW1. Seems, that the Germans learned more from those early experiences though - their tank weapons in WW2 were very advanced. And the French Colonel Estienne had even predicted it.

I don't care if the sun don't shine And I don't care if nothing is mine And I don't care if I'm nervous with you I'll do my flying in the winter. And the sea isn't green And I love the queen And what exactly is a dream And what exactly is a joke. (Syd Barrett "Jugband Blues"; except for "flying", which should be "loving") I know you LOVE "Over Flanders Fields", Creaghorn - otherwise you would have got me worried! You and I seem to be living in there already...

Here's my contribution. No air war, but very interesting nevertheless. BRITISH PATHÉ "Time to remember - The better'ole 1916" (British film scenes from Mesopotamia and other, 1916) http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=84069

UncleAl: I have the Trackir Hat Clip mounted on a visor. Which more than once has earned me the title "RADAR MAN" from the guy next door Lewie: I'm the Geek from the Freak Lagoon.

Bullethead: ...now the police jury is spending my tax money on a crash TV commercial blitz saying we're really not flooded. Isn't it always again amazing, when politicians or officials prove, that the desaster you believe to witness is not there at all? That you just misinterpreted the whole situation?

In "No Parachute!" I read yesterday, that No. 46 Sqdn, RFC, encountered the Fokker Triplane on September 6th, 1917. This was one of the two prototypes, delivered to Manfred von Richthofen and Werner Voss. What I found most interesting, was the colour description of Lee. As he had written the letter on the same day, I don't think his memory distorted what he had witnessed. And he describes an all-red Triplane. Another patrol, B flight, had set out half an hour after us, and had fortunately come into our area just in time to see the Huns come down on us. They rushed up and joined in, and the Albatri, thinking no doubt that it was all a trap, began to pull clear. It was then that I had a brief contact with the triplane, which stood out not only because it was a tripe but because of it's performance. It was an asthonishing sight to watch it soaring up over the other Huns in a steep effortless climb. It's very like a Sopwith Triplane, rotary-engined, but the middle and top wings are longer than the bottom, and when it approaches, the wing-tips seem on the slope. I can't think why the Huns didn't resume their attack, they were nine to our ten, but they could have bested us, especially having the triplane. Instead, the two formations spent several minutes confronting each other, about 300 yards apart, in loose groups, with everybody circling, climbing and generally sparting for advantage but not taking it. There were individual dashes forward, with bursts of fire, then quick withdrawals, for nobody on either side seemed inclined to do an Albert Ball solo charge into the middle of the enemy. Then the triplane, becoming bored, started a little war on his own. He climbed up well above his pack and dived alone at whichever Pup happened to be handy, fired a burst, then zoomed up and away back to the others. I happened to be one of the handy Pups at a moment when I was in a steep turn after firing fifty rounds at a Hun dappled like a snake. I heard the rattle of guns, saw tracer flash by my right shoulder, jerked the machine into a split-ass turn towards him, but he zoomed as I fired, half-rolled and slid back to his own team. Afterwards I found, he'd put twelve rounds in a neat group through my right upper wing, a foot from the center section strut. I sincerely hope my brief burst holed him too. He was all red, even to the underside, so he could have been Richthofen himself. If so, I could be lucky writing this letter. Now, even if the pilot was not Richthofen (who had to set out on a delayed convalescent leave, after his head wound still caused some worries), the Fokker Triplane was his; as the one from Werner Voss had the original Fokker-green on light blue streak painting. I had never read anywhere before, that von Richthofen's first prototype had been overall red.

The Triplane with it's good speed AND turn ability is my favourite British kite, even before the S.E.5a.

The Renault looks like being built by a armourer, who had made knights' medieval armours before.

They are already in BHaH, Dej.

Or you fix them to a baseball cap, like the official clips do?

Isn't it great, Lewie? Almost like the real thing!