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You made a typo in the title, Hauksbee - his name was "Sablatnig".

nats, England, UK added All maps are in post 1 of this thread

Welcome back to simming, sixstrings! I missed OFF 1 and came to OFF Phase 2 in October 2008, short before "OFF - Between Heaven and Hell" came out. It was a great step forward, and WOFF was such a great step again. With the new shaders it is a "whopper" now! But careful, it will also be harder to survive, when you use full realism settings - the AI can be really tricky. All official WOFF stuff was moved to SimHQ; check there also: http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/forums/372/1/Wings_Over_Flanders_Fields

Johnnydrake24, Alberta, Canada added All maps are in post 1 of this thread

Hey, tranquillo old chap - good to see you rejoining service! I hope Wayfarer could help - cause I definitely can't... When you have enough practise, WOFF should be another huge step forwards - aircraft models, FMs, AI behaviour and overall look! The new shader is just a brilliant addition alone!

TVAL, or some producer for them, make the corrdect linen and printing of the Lozenge. They entered a kind of semi-industrial production, it seems. http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/projects/albatros-dva/covering-albatros-dva http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/reference/working-irish-linen

Wonderful news, Tony! Congrats to that! Yeah, keep up the training; physical stuff is good for so many processes in our system! Ask him what they pay for this kinda commercials, Tony!

Hey, Tony, great to see you! Yeah, dead here - as Creaghorn said: most people write at SimHQ.

Seems I must select the CPU every time after starting WOFF again, Beard? It doesn't seem to remember my selection.

Some people are really ingenious engineers - this feller from Wupperthal has built himself a motorbike with a radial engine! Not sure how practical it is, but it looks cool! http://www.1000ps.at/modellnews-2357113-der-rote-baron

It means: "Break your neck and leg"

My pleasure, Hauksbee - good luck; Hals- und Beinbruch, as we say in Germany!

Funny how this photo makes the two men appear small! They may not have been tall, but als the bench is one of those high ones. There is one of these in a Berliner U-Bahn (underground) station; it must be from around 1900.

If you click on the little speaker symbol with the American flag in front of the name, you get it spelled about right. (As right as an American can spell a French name). http://www.dict.cc/?s=Ypres The Belgians also call it "Jepers", which you'd find hard to spell, as you spell "j" as "jay". The "j" in "Jepers" is softer - more like "Ee-apers".

The trick might be: do less. You don't have to do anything much. You push te throttle forward; the C.II will roll and gain speed until it will lift off. You don't pull the stick more than just a little bit to make it happen. Only begin to pull, when you feel she wants to lift. Once the craft is airborne, you can try and pull the stick more to make more climb. But always be aware: these aircraft were all underpowered compared to WW2 craft. So do not force anything per stick onto them, which they don't have the power for. For any tighter or vertical combat manoeuvers, the main trick is always to gain more energy than the engine supplies. That can only be done by dives. From shallow, flat-angled dives to rather steep ones, there is a wide range of how to gain energy. For steeper dives you will have to reduce throttle by a quarter or half, to not break the engine. The Roland, by the way, can dive with throttle almost fully on; it will gain a speed of ca. 200 km/h. This should get you away from all Nieuports and Sopwiths - only the SPAD and S.E.5a can follow. Once the additional energy is gained, you can now perform a tight turn, even in a climb. You will feel, how the energy bleeds off quickly, and then you better finish your manoeuver. For more such moves, you need then to gain forward speed=energy again. If you watch Roland C.II or the Airco DH.2 fighting, you will see how agile these craft CAN be, even in incredible vertical manoeuvres! I always learn something more when I watch that. Don't you think now, that I can already perfrom all that - I am still constantly watching and learning more, and pilots like Lanoe Hawker can give me incredible fights.

I don't know what you guys are doing - I flew it twice in the "DiD Campaign", and I must say it flies fine, and isn'rt too hard to land. Maybe you should work on your piloting skills? I had a dogfight against a single Sopwith Triplane - and won. Take that, ha!

Only watched the first video yet, and I must say: beau-ti-ful!

Some good info about a Luftschiff-Hafen in Denmark... http://www.zeppelin-museum.dk/main.php?lang=en

With my vertigo, that job would be a total nightmare for me!

Time for some new screenies - these are still pre-WOFF v2.0, but beautiful, aren't they? A grand afternoon out with Jasta 15 (well, not so grand for a SPAD VII and a Nieuport...

Thank you, Dezh, for posting the new additions to the McMaster war map archives! With these maps I was now able to find the grounds of former "Luisenhof Ferme", the crash site of Major Lanoe Hawker. From Peter Kilduff: THE RED BARON - BEYOND THE LEGEND "The two aeroplanes went lower and lower as Richthofen fought 'the most difficult battle ... that I experienced thus far...' Then one of Richthofen's guns cleared and he fired right into the back of his opponent. The DH.2 dropped into the mud about 250 m east of Luisenhof Ferme, a devastated farm along the road to Flers, just south of Bapaume. A nearby German Grenadier unit pulled Hawker's body from the wreckage and determined he had been killed by one shot in the back of the head. Hawker was buried on the spot, with the broken DH.2 serving as a final monument." On 23 November 1916 the farm was already devastated, and it seems it was never rebuilt, but torn down. Still though, roads and field paths are recognisable, when you compare the field map with Google Earth.

The first post was edited and completely changed, because Dej/Dezh had posted a link to new trench maps at the McMaster University Archive. And with two of the new maps I was now able to find Luisenhof Ferme. My original guess had been too far north; closer to Bapaume. But now we have the proof - a trench map with the farm in it.

Great photo, Hauksbee!