Olham

Thanks for the book tip, Wayfarer! My list of books to get is quite long already, but I'll keep it in my mind. Alexander Solschenizyn has also written a book with poems about the conquering of East Prussia; titled "Prussian Nights". I wonder if and how such events can be described in poems, and this book is also on my list.

Yeah, that reminds me of Wernher von Braun, "father" of the V-1 and V-2, who was later the "father of the American Moon Mission".

I always knew the Manfred-von-Richthofen-Strasse in Berlin-Tempelhof, west of the Tempelhof aerodrome; and I knew that there was also a street named after Boelcke. But only today I checked the area closer and I discovered several more streets with aviators'names. I missed many men, who would have deserved to be honoured like this, like Berthold, or Josef Mai. Others I didn't even know. Maybe the names selection was done by "Herr Meier" in the 30s or 40s? That would explain, why Ernst Udet only received a small dead end street.

WIKI says, that the Maroilles has a long and nice aftertaste - must check, if I can get it here. The worst cheese I ever had was a Scandinavian "old cheese" ("gammel ost") - that stuff perfectly etched away all and any taste buds from your tongue, and all membranes from the inside of your mouth and throat. After that you could eat whatever you wanted - it tasted all the same: like nothing. I bet you could strip off old paint from old doors with that stuff, or cauterize holes into concrete floors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroilles_cheese

Just discovered this looooong thread at THE AERODROME - the whole book by Henry Bordeaux, for online reading. http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/aviation-personnel/32177-georges-guynemer-knight-air.html

Absolutely the same here. I memorise real things better than virtual stuff.

Indeed - and in addition to the lack of time, I am not too often in the right mood for the reading of a book about war. Last one I finished - and every page was worth the read - was Otto Fuchs' "Wir Flieger". Next on the list are a re-start with McCudden's "Flying Fury" and Raymond Colishaw's "The Black Flight", which our good Typhoon sent to me. Myself, I do not like reading books online - I need the real thing in hands. I'm an old fashioned romantic there. But thanks for the reminder - I might make exceptions. So I would like to read about the French flyers Garros and Navarre. Do you remember any titles about them, which are in your large online collection?

Isn't it? And this is only a little part of the story - maybe the finds of 1 - 3 years!

Fismes was, if I remember right, a famous French airfield too. At least in WOFF it is.

Interesting! I have on a journey through France long ago come through a town where they had a memoire, a statue or just a stone with a propeller - but back then I was not yet so interested in WW1 aviation, and so I cannot remember, for whom it was. Garros, maybe. WW2 aviators would not be chosen for street names in Germany. You would rather find a Johannes-Steinhoff-Kaserne (casern, barracks) - that would just be the maximum.

Yes, that's no joke - theybuild little "iron walls" of the duds, until they get collected and disposed. An "iron harvest"...

I guess they have sheep in there to ignite any possibly threatening ammo - sheep have rather small, hard hoofs. In Ostfriesland we use them to stamp back the clay in the dykes, when mice or moles have dug any holes into them.

Hauksbee, the Flanders farmes often just put the shells and grenades at the side of their field, near the road, where the ammo spcialists then collect the stuff. They collect, if I remember correctly, 3 tons per year.

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PS: I remember a line from one of the history books I read (was it "The Lions of July? Not sure...), where it said (in similar words): "And now the mighty military machinery began to roll, and even the Kaiser had to realise, that from now on he would not be able to stop it anymore."

May we never make such mistakes again, and only fight such wars from the safety of our arm chairs, with a freshly brewed coffee next to us. Salute!

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Nope. The answer is "no" - at least as I understand that.

I followed the thread at THE AERODROME and saw, that Schmäling had talked to such aces like Josef Mai. He did that in the 80s, just in time, before these old witnesses of the first air war would have died. The colour informations on the different, individually painted planes alone must be worth to get it. Bruno had colour pens and watercolours with him, when he visited the aces, and together they re-defined the colours of many paintjobs, which we knew only from black+white photos. Artists like Russel Smith, Jerry Boucher and our forum's JFM (James F. Miller) made illustrations and profiles of many ace planes for this outstanding work - for me a must-have; I ordered it and hope it won't take too long from AERONAUT America to Berlin. Here is a link for all interested: http://www.aeronautbooks.com/product/978-1-935881-25-4 PS: if the book sells good enough, there are also books planned for Jasta 23b, Jasta 5 and Jasta 11.

I guess it is one of the old hard-coded CFS3 things - otherwise they would have solved it. Did you ever observe, if the flight time remains alright in the "Z" text, even when you pause?

That is a known thing in OFF and also WOFF, ulti. It seems the time cannot be counted throughout the flight, when you pause the sim - even if it's only for a short screenshot. You could use a clock. In the new DiD Campaign, we must live with the times we get - wrong or right.

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Yeah - but what happened to them? A giant storm, perhaps?

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