Olham

Geeze - crammed into a stinky steel box like sardines in oil! I much prefer my Albatros!

Well, in OFF I shot down 5 - in words: five - S.E.5a with a Fokker Dr.1 and still had ammo left. You can achieve many a thing in OFF, cause we don't fly against real human aces. I too love the Sopwith Triplane, Dej, as it is in OFF. It is a greater joy to fly than the Dr.1, which is a twitchy, instable kite that needs permanent stick control.

Thank you, Shiloh - now I can watch it at least. Still don't hear anything. It's great to see, when they show the Barograph, and then climb into the Eindecker!

Would such a model have the same STOL attitudes as the real craft?

PS: you're added to the map now, lederhosen - see here: http://combatace.com/topic/44370-off-forum-pilots-maps/page__view__findpost__p__498088

Update 18 May 2011 - 18:52 h Berlin summer time (= GMT + 2) lederhosen, Germany, added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

Adress wasn't needed - only your town. If you can, you should edit your post and delete the adress. I have what I need. And I'll add you to the map. Oh, and newbie buys the drinks - I'll have a virtual Warsteiner Pilsener!

Want to see a short take off and landing? Here's the Fieseler Storch:

Funny - so many Germans are going the other way - to Canada. Okay - the real cracks will come in here soon, I hope. What about your town, so I could add your name here? http://combatace.com/topic/44370-off-forum-pilots-maps/

This is a real pity, that they used a format that so many people don't seem to use - I too can't watch them.

First I thought they had faked it by letting the landing gear disappear per retouche. But when he opens the door, you really see it's true. This was a most perfect landing! He may not have even damaged the propellers!

Welcome to the OFF-Forum, lederhosen! Did you find these at PC GAMES HARDWARE? They are said to have good sets. After reading the specifications I would think they both would do the job fine. But with Windows 7 64bit, I would go for 8 GB memory. I noticed, that my 4 GB are getting quite hot - seems there is a lot to be loaded in OFF. Another question would be: are 550W enough as a decent power supply? But please wait for the answers of our experts - Parky, von Paulus, almccoyr and Widowmaker. Will you come here more often? I would then like to add you to our "OFF Forum Pilots" maps; if you send me a message with your town and country. In case you are German and have a question you can't express in english, you could write it in German - I would do my best to answer it then.

When I saw his face in his avatar for the first time, three years ago, I was aware that he was in the late autumn of his life, and so I was always asthonished, how many posts he answered, with lots of detailed knowledge; how he would always help a newbie - even if that newbie asked a question, that had already been asked before - with patience and good info. I have read many of his posts, and I will read more of them in the future. In these posts and infos he is still with us. Now that you're not earthbound anymore, I know you'll always have them, but still let me use your famous greeting: Blue skies, Dan-San!

I also believe him, that he met a Triplane. There were two F.I delivered at that time. I wonder, if he later met a red one? (Haven't read that far yet). Then it would be understandable, that he got it mixed up. About a competition between the Sopwith Triplane and the Fokker Triplane: Arthur Gould Lee tells in his book, that the RNAS boys felt inferiour with their Tripes against the Albatros D.V (and so they wanted and got the Camel). Now, the Albatros D.V should definitely be inferiour to the Fokker Dr.1, except for it's top speed. But Lee also described, when the "red" Triplane left the fighting scene, two Albatros D.V tried desperately to followit's climb, hanging on their props. The Fokker Dr.1 with it's new Göppingen airfoil was a revolutionary new design with a very good lift ratio. It might not even have needed three wings, I read repeatedly (only because everyone was so impressed by the Sopwith Triplane, they had to build a "Dreidecker"). A very good pilot could possibly take on the fight in a Sopwith against the Fokker, and even win the fight. But if the Fokker pilot was Werner Voss, who knew how to get the best out of the Fokker, I doubt he would. We must not forget, that the Sopwith Triplane was a much earlier design - it was introduced as early as November 1916! The first two Fokker F.I prototypes came much later, in September 1917 (not to mention the delay of the full introduction of that type). So, honestly, I wouldn't find it fair to compare the two craft, as in that war a half year was a very long time. Still though, it might be an interesting theoretical idea to do this: - give a Werner Voss the time to get really good with the Sopwith Triplane - give a Raymond Collishaw the same to get familiar with the Fokker Dr.1 - and then let both aces fight it out - both ways, on both planes each But that's something we can only dream of.

You wouldn't stop human progress. You'd only play the ball to Buick, to the Germans, or to the Japanese. Human progress is part of any evolution - you cannot stop it; even if it goes in bad directions. Like you can't stop kids from burning their fingers on the stove.

On the "Jasta 2"-Website, I just found this log from Capt. John Pattern, No. 10 Sqdn, RFC. He and observer, Lt. Leycester, shot down Erwin Böhme from Jasta 2 (green line) on the day before Pattern had a leave of 14 days. Pattern hit the tank of Böhme's Albatros, which had passed the Armstrong-Whitworth F.K.8; then Lt. Leycester fired tracer rounds after the descending Böhme, which must have set the pertol fumes afire. Böhme was the pilot, who had collided with Boelcke's Albatros and brought it to crash. After that, he had loaded a revolver in his tent to shoot himself; but Manfred von Richthofen held him back. Now he was to receive the Pour-le-Merite in only a few hours. He never got it. Here is the link to the site: http://www.jastaboelcke.de/php/include.php?file=content/html/flieger/erwin_boehme/boehme_bio_ger.html

Whatever man tried and still tries to get out more from nature, than nature is ready to give, failed. It's like with money. If it stands for the food and the work available in this world - how can it be that you can increase money, when you can not increase the food or the work done?

Here are two links you may want to have a look into: http://www.varusforschung.de/ http://www.kalkriese-varusschlacht.de/ Yes, indeed! Three Legions plus some Kohorts must have been a very big loss for the Romans, who also just had trouble in Palestine (as far as I remember).

Sometimes I press "Optional flight" many times, until I get sent to the area I'd like to visit. If it is an "airfield attack" for example, you can click it often, until you get to attack a specific airfield you want. Can take you a while, but that way I once ruined the day for RNAS at Bailleul Asylum. They had messed up our field before, and this was my payback mission.

Thank you, Duke. The white tails were the markings of Jasta 2, and they fit nicely with the clear doped plywood fuselage, I find too. There will soon be a basic Jasta 2 Albatros D.V in the download section. Perhaps you check on the next weekend (if you fly that bird at all).

Maybe you'd then only see that it wasn't in, Davy?

Testflying a new D.V skin for Jasta 28w, I got into a fight with several Camels - and got 4 shot down. Unfortunately, my wingmen got driven away from me, and I had only a witness for 1 Camel. Damn! But at least I got this dramatic screenshot.

Widowmaker & Olham in one little fishing boat - naw, we can't do that to your paradise, tranquillo.

Man, good to hear you are living high & dry enough, Bullethead! I wonder, how much longer they will be able to keep 'Ol' man river' in this bed, that he doesn't seem to want anymore.

A very modest and fine wish, tranquillo - very understandable to wish yourself back to "paradise". And if Widowmaker wants to be there too, maybe he could teach me fishing with a rod, if I also came? Although - paradise is a faint dream - we might well break it with too many of us. Thank you for the tip, CapitaineVengeur - I like comics and will check, if they are translated already. The battle, by the way, was not really in Teutoburger Wald, as they found some years ago, but slightly north of it near Kalkriese, along a narrow trail between moorland and forrest hills. The Roman track of men, horses and waggons was stretched out about 15 kilometers, and the Germans could only win, cause they knew the terrain well, and had prepared fortified positions on the hill sides. And because Armin had been educated and trained by the Romans, who held him as a pledge, so his father would not fight Roman settlements. This photo demonstrates the strength of the Roman Legions, that got slaughtered in the battle: