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Exactly, tranquillo - every man to his own likes. Javito, if you want to try more subtle Label colours, you may try mine. See this older post with the file, and the way how to use it. http://combatace.com/topic/62903-smaller-tac-softer-label-colours/page__view__findpost__p__477745

We should all fly this sim as it serves us best. We may not be as young as those original pilots were. We may be wearing glasses (UncleAl's are one inch thick, as he once reported). We still must do with less resolution than RL would provide. On the other hand, we know it's only a sim. We have best health services, life insurance, and an own car. We sleep in clean, warm beds, without dark dreams of the war, we are not sleepless because we really had to send someone down burning. We just should not speak of cheating.

My monitor res is the same as yours, Javito. With your momentary FoV settings, you are already zoomed in a little - I use 24 x 15, which looks about "normal". Of course, in real life, you would see them better, but this is where we stand now. Make the best of it. I made the experience, that they don't see me any earlier than I can recognise them. If they are low, I can see bright planes best - sandcoloured or silvergrey craft. Flyers being much higher look like specs of dust on the screen, but are visible. What you can do, if your eyes are not the best, is to leave "Labels" on. When they are white, the enemy craft will still not notice you (although there are exceptions). But when they turn red, they definitely can see you. What you may be missing, if you fly without Labels, makes it only more realistic - you will fight less, have less kills, and live longer. If you are over own territory, you will see Flak/Archie first, before you can recognise the specs. Flak is always a good help then. Over enemy territory, you should be most aware about the sky above, or better: fly as high as any possible.

Good one, CapitaineVengeur! I'll have to be careful about the copyrights, I guess! Von Richthofen described that as a nasty feeling - you could hear the numerous rifles being fired, like the sound of making popcorn. That is the part I was always wondering about - how you manage to avoid enemy contact. You mustr have better eyesight. Wow - you have almost managed to survive through the whole war! You must be the first one of us! Congratulations, Creaghorn! - even if you still have some time to go - no one got that far yet, I think! But now I still want to hear something about your physical and emotional effects during flights, as I had asked above?

Couldn't resist - these are customer/modeller-built 1:32 kits from WingnutWings. Enjoy!

Yep, I'd go for the same way. "Wingnut Wings" models would come later, when I got better - or never.

The 1:48 scale seems still too small for making a believeable wiring - even silk thread apears too thick. On the other hand - there may be no Tripe in 1:32.

I ever only did skins with DXTBmp - never any landscape mipmaps. So I can only show you here, what I use for skins: File type: DDS DXT1 (NoAlpha) Mipmaps: - Include when saving is checked - Use 16 bit Dither is not checked - Box Scaling Filter: none

Over at "The Aerodrome" website, they show several books at the bottom of Frank's page. http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/luke1.php

There are two companies I would recommend - it depends on the money you would spend. But you should consider building those in scale 1:32 - you get just more detail. The cheaper are the models from RODEN - see here: http://www.roden.eu/...framemodels.htm The high-end class models would be those of Wingnut Wings, New Zealand - see here: http://www.wingnutwi...ww/modelkitsets

ONLY 1 SONG EVERYBODY, PLEASE I have often thought of starting this thread, but then I always found it almost impossible to go for just 1 song (or instrumental). In different phases and moods, we may like different stuff. But what the heck - no one would be angry, if you had a different selection next year. I made my choice. This song was played, when I had my very first slow dance with a (French) girl in a German-French youth camp at the Bodensee. I remember, that it was the first time, when the combination of the scent of a girls hair and skin, and a soft bosom pressed against my chest, caused something like an electric red-out in my brain or godknowswhereelse. That tune they played then was Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale"

You're right, Steve - I know it was a hit, but that castrated falsetto singing of "Saturday Night Feevaaaahhh", and most of the other disco stuff made me drink more than was good for me, back in my army days! An exception for me was Donna Summer singing "I feel love".

One of the great artists for aviation paintings I found, is Jerry Boucher. I have here compiled some of his works, as I found them in the internet. Who can exactly name the planes?

The brown Messerschmidt could be an F-Trop (with the topic sand filter). That Finnish Bf109 has the Erla-Haube; could ba a late G-type. The one to it's right is a Spanish one with a Hispano Suiza engine. Those were used for the Batle of Britain film.

Lewie, you can't know what yer missing, boy! Go, sell your grandma, microwave, sofa - you need the money for a good rig!!!

The Spitfire I added above MAY have the Griffon engine - it seems to sound brighter, I think.

Those Spitfire engine sounds are just ridiculous in this video - a laugh! I have heard a Spitfire coming, when I was in England, on a chalk hill. There was an air show some 20 miles from my hill. A Spitfire flying home from the event approached us, and we heard it, before we saw it. The sound of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine is something you'll never forget! Then we saw the fighter coming closer; we waved to the pilot, and he waved back. When he passed us, the small valley between ours and the next hill was filled with that distinct thundering drone. Go and get some samples from Britain, Oleg! Before you ask: the Mustang P-51 had the same engine - bathe your ears! http://www.youtube.c...JsJLDwdINo&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvDDDKnNhuE

It is not said, which craft that is, Dej, but I just checked your guess, and I believe you are correct there.

Hmmm - now you make me worried; I haven't seen Cameljockey here for a while now - hope he's well? But the "good old Phase 2" is looking sooo old AI-wise, that you should rather go for a new rig and P3. I will also build a new rig soon.

After installing OFF, you don't need to leave the disk in the DVD drive, Lewie.

You guys are pretty much right there. Here are the subtitles to the pictures, as I found them: 1) Phoenix D.I flown by Fiedrich Lang, fighting a Macchi M.5 2) Nieuport 17 flown by Raoul Lufberry, Lafayette Escadrille, December 1916 3) Halberstadt CL.II (Schlasta 27b) 4) Albatros C.III flown by Ltn. Erwin Böhme over the Eastern Front in 1916 5) Messerschmitt Bf109F-2; from 9./JG54, Lithuania, July 1941 6) LTV A-7E Corsair II from VA-113 'Stingers', USS Ranger, 1970 Lewie, you seem to know your WW1 aircraft well; thinking of the Eastern front and the Russian Antra seems right itifonhom, the "Erla-Haube" was inspired by Adolf Galland, who wanted the longitudinal construction bars of the hood slightly downbent, for a better rear-up left and right vision. It was also called "Galland-Haube". Here is how it looked.

Yep, or motorbike riding - I used to rush along the country roads in Ostfriesland on my Yamaha, back in the early 70s (god, makes me feel old to write that!). I was often picking smaller roads I didn't knwo - that was the adventure. Well, and one day, when I even had my neighbour's sun behind me on the bike, I tried to impress him, by driving such roads quite fast. Until that curve came, a turn of more than 90°! Hidden by high wheat, I only realised, when it was too late. I lay into he turn as far as possible, but got carried out. Beside the concrete road was sun-dried hard clay with deep tractor tracks. We got into those, and we almost went headover. So we slithered along on that unpleasant underground and had hole in our jeans (no leather!). The front fork was slightly bent, the right turn light was ripped off, and the tank had a small dent. In the mid-nineties, I had another bike accident in Berlin. I wasn't driving to fast, but I changed tracks, cause the guy in the second track in front of me stopped, to let some oncoming car turn off. Our traffic light showed green, so the turning guy had to let me pass first. But he hadn't seen me, hit me, and I got a cruciate ligament rapture in my left knee; then I slithered onto the sidewalk. Only then, I had learned, that for a biker, it doesn't count, wether you have the right to pass someone - what counts is, if he does see you. From then on, I drove more passively and always assumed, that the others might not see me.

A gift for learning languages is probably the first important thing you should have, when you decide to learn German. The grammatic is pretty difficult. And where English just uses "the", we have "der, die, das" in German - so you have to remember, what is male, what is female, and what is objective. Sounds easy? Well, the moon for example is male - der Mond ; the sun is female - die Sonne; and a child is objective - das Kind. As if sun and more are more human than a child??? It is crazy in parts! But yes, I feel something like pride, that an Englishman is learning my native language - we all sure can do with a better understanding. You may even feel more proud (prider?), when you hear, that English is the first foreign language on German schools. So most Germans learn English. I then had to make a choice for the second language to be either French or Latin. As I didn't plan to go into nay medicine or historical business, I picked French. But I am very "basic" in French, to be honest. If he should ever want to know the correct way of saying this or that sentence, you may write them to me in a PM, and I will answer you. I wish him all the best with it. PS: our native Ostfriesisch, which is not a form of low-German, but an old language - partly related to Skandinavian as well as to Dutch - shows many same roots as English.

Same for me, Widow! Arthur Gould Lee wrote in the introduction to his book "No Parachute!", that he did not recognise that feller of 20 years, that he was back then - all the dangers and risks he had taken without thinking much about them - and I understand well enough, what he means.

The scenes were flown by WW1 fighter pilots. I like to see that very quick reassembling of the Fokker-Staffel. Here is the whole story as far as Wikipedia has it: http://en.wikipedia....gels_%28film%29