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Lou, I think, 8 and 9 are also RNAS and not RFC? I don't find RFC 9 in OFF? Thanks, guys - the Tripes are never long there, it seems; so it may become 54 with the Pup; as soon as my other Pup campaign with No. 46 Sqdn, RFC, will end. But I would like to survive long enough to transfer to Filecamp Farm with Arthur Gould Lee and the boys - he describes the place almost like "paradise with Nissen huts". Lewie, 1,50 Euro is indeed extremely cheap for a camping site.

TaillyHo, a "taken seriously Campaign" is IMHO a Campaign as flown by Creaghorn, RAF_Louvert and Hasse Wind. These chaps fly them as if they could lose their own lives; they fly them much more defensive and careful; they make very little kills, but they survive a very long time. Please don't feel bad about your own flying - I never got anywhere close to their Campaigns' length myself; I fly far too aggressive; I make a lot of kills that way, but I am dead within half a year. I always think to myself, I want to fly it "more serious" like them, but that's only my conscience - my temper has a totally different oppinion.

For Widowmaker: you could make a combined tour of Camping, WW1 History & Fishing at Chipilly. See this site: http://www.camping-peche-picardie.com/

I know you don't like to report about your pilots, Creaghorn, but would you make some exceptions here? I think it would be the first "taken seriously Campaign" in a Bristol Scout.

Another idea for you, Creaghorn, would be to begin as a two-seat Strutter pilot, and then change over to No. 24 Sqdn, RFC, to fly the Airco DH-2? Challenging carreer!

Uuuuuhhhh! That was nasty. Understandable, but nasty.

Hmmm - I feel different there again. The Halberstadt can hold it's own against any enemy, and would be even greater, if it could make use of it's superb dive ability, without the fragile Nupes performing the same. The Albatros is a monster fighter for me. When I get that craft in September 1916, I feel really superiour. I only die from collisions in late 1916 and early 1917 (which must have been a really big danger in any fights; and I must learn to control my eagerness even much better; so not to fly and fight as if I was invincible).

How wonderful to see you back in the air, CaptSopwith! You sure deserve a lot of pleasure after your examn. Nice screens there! And thanks for honouring me, but mostly the OBD skinners should be honoured here; I only changed the tone of the wood and added some detail. Have fun, pilot!

Well, as you left one point unanswered, Dej - here is the recepy of "P10": For one hundred gallons of PC10 the recipe is: 260 pounds nitro Cellulose syrup 74 pounds of pigments in the following proportions: 40 pounds yellow ochre 30 pounds umber 2 pounds 8 ounces Red Ochre 1 pound 8 ounces Chinese Blue Which was then added to: 20 gallons Acetone or Methyl ethyl ketone 15 gallons Amyl Acetate 15 Gallons benzol 15 gallons Methylated spirit And here is the whole of the info for everyone interested: http://www.southsearepublic.org/article/1723/read/pc10_and_doping_variation_in_wwi/

Sometimes the "time advance" seems to go to the same hour on the next day. So, when there were only two flights that next day, you may get the later one. If there was only one flight, you may miss the whole day. It doesn't have anything to do with "die roll on death". I advance time, when I get a mission type the Germans didn't fly with fighters, like railyard attacks. I don't bother, if it skips a whole day - I know I won't survive the whole war anyway - even with cheating.

Laptops! Reminds me of this scene from "Wild Hogs" with the great William Macey:

Widow, three cheers to you, old chap! I had a lot of trouble with my new rig the last two weeks, and I was now convinced, that my C:drive was broken. It part-time failed out. Now, that I had travelled through most of Berlin and back, to borrow another harddrive from a friend, I found, that the red SATA cable might be sitting slightly obligue (they don't really plug in well!), and after moving it, the C:drive works again. So, now I still don't know, if this was it, or if the C:drive may still be half broken. Damn business!!!

...and now for something completely different I have said it several times before: humour is not really a German invention and had to be imported. Fortunately, German TV decided to import high quality comedy from the motherland of humour: England. Not long after Monty Python's Flying Circus had been broadcasted in Great Britain, their shows all got presented to the German households, with mixed reactions. While some (mostly the elder people) thought, that this was the end of any civilisation, brought to us Germans by the obviously totally crazy British (one had known it all the time: people who drive on the LEFT side of the road! Just weird!!), the younger people received it as a most entertaining form of total anarchy. Not the punks invented that, but as early as 1969, it was cultivated by Monty Python's Flying Circus. They didn't stop anywhere and by making fun out of them they brought people and organisations down to human size. Be that politicians, upper class people, Royals or religious organisations - no one was safe from their sometimes biting, but always spot-on humour. A special achievement was, that all this got produced and broadcast through the good old BBC, who's program directors prefered to go to their clubs early instead of watching some of the stuff. They only got a bit funny and careful after the first season had already been sent. Thank you, BBC, for your liberalism! And thank you, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle and Terry Giliam, for these wonderful "British Care Packages of Humour". There may be still quite some way to go, but you got us on the right way! Three cheers and a toast on Monty Python's!!! For all you British, Americans, Canadians and Australians I may be "carrying coal to Newcastle" here, but it had to be said once and for all. And as we had the "Spanish Inquisition" only recently, I chose two other of their great sketches here:

Welcome back, Slarti! Take the Pup early in the war - a wonderful aircraft!

Those Vikings singing the "Spam-Song" are just hilarious!!!

My new system is broken down right now - the hard drives are still the old ones, and now the C:bootdisk failed me. Waiting for a friend to bring round an almost new SATA drive of his, I can only use my old (stoneage!) rig right now, to be able to get into the forum at least. My graphic card is still an ATI HD4870 (1 GB), but now I could max out all AA sliders. The sim sliders are: Aircraft: 5 Terrain: 3 (I don't like it too grainy) Scenery: 4 (enough for me) Effects: 5 Clouds: 5 The aircraft skins (Workshop) are on "normal" - the medium setting, cause I want to see damage. But I think most important are the settings in the ATI Catalyst Control (which I can't access right now; I could show them later).

Carrick, all the above tips are working fine, and for the stuff you want to do, you wouldn't need Photoshop. If it shall be Photoshop, any older version would be capable, if you first convert the .dds file into a .bmp file. For that, you can download the free program DXTBmp here: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Editors/DXTBmp.shtml

I was ready indeed - we want to keep it thrilling, don't we? Thanks a lot for doing all this work - great idea, Lou !

1. Sir Arthur T Harris ; Sopwith Strutter A2 2. 45 Sqdn, RFC (1917) 3. "Bomber Harris" He later became the Commander of the British Bomber Command and gave the order for the bombing of Dresden. More accusive was the name "Butcher Harris", which you perhaps meant?

Javito, I haven't even finished it yet, but I would say already, that it must be among the top five reads about WW1.

Welcome to OFF, JohnnyG - I will also have a virtual WARSTEINER ! And if you send me a PM with your town and country, I will add you to our "OFF Forum Pilots Maps".

I had a British pilot with No. 46 Sqdn, RFC - the same unit Arthur Gould Lee (author of "No Parachute!") - was flying with. I started the same time as him in May 1917, and we flew Sopwith Pups from La Gorgue, SW of Ypres. The Pup is a jolly difference to the Albatros; it is a light-weight, carefree butterfly to enjoy. Unfortunately I had to write back a partition-backup from before he existed, so he is lost now. But I'll "start him again" - accompanied by reading the book every night, I get a very good feel with that unit.

Well, the 'BrisFit' beat me up so many times - why shouldn't you Crumpets have your own nemesis? Mmuahahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!!

Oh, deaaaaaaaaaaarrr!!!!! Now my whole body hurts! Aches? Ah, whatever....

Found this in a forum and hope the man knew what he said: The WW1 air ace Guynemer, who had fifty-four victories, had twenty-seven palms on his riband, some of which, I think, were the silver class instituted later in the war to replace five bronze palms. Guynemer also had dozens of bronze and silver stars. His riband was about eighteen inches long! The WW2 ace Pierre Clostermann accumulated about a dozen palms. So, the number should be 27 palms. (Not sure about 54 victories - I thought he had 53)