Olham

The attacking fighter has a "Gitterschwanz" (it's a pusher) - so might be a DH-2, as Elephant said already.

OvS: ... then you need to fly OFF. :) James - that is the very reason why I do. Your post should be made a commercial advert, to reach those who didn't know yet.

Don't stop, mate - we need every contribution! Wish I could answer your question, but I don't know. What I did notice, is that AI often appears higher than me, no matter what setting I used. So, be prepared! You may also want to set AI aggressiveness on "historical" - they won't be as aggressive as in 1918 then, but fly much more defensive (which I liked about the SPAD later - I couldn't get at them!)

It is incredible how they built such a great sim with so few men, after their working hours - with so much love and dedication. Thanks for bringing this up again; it's a great read.

Yeah - who knows - perhaps R. R. Tolkien had known those poems. He was a professor for language or something like that.

So many here played "Red Baron 3D" - a pity I missed that sim. I was more into WW2 Spitfires and Messerschmidts those days, and "developed backwards".

PS: Bullethead, that old Zen master I mentioned earlier, was an exceptional man, full of relish. He said of himself: "I'm a half-drowned poet in a Sake river." He lived 1394 - 1481; his name was Ikkyu Sojun. I got a great little book with poems of him; it's called "POEMS FROM THE CRAZY CLOUD". Some poems are funny, others pretty serious. Here are two you may like: "Even in it's sheath, my sword can see you!" "The edges of a sword mean life and death. But no one knows, which edge stands for what."

Thanks - then it's a must-see! Since No. 11 seems to take his time (or does he never drink a pint in a pub?), I will add a new picture here. No. 12 - Whose town is this This is Menifee, California - Carrick's town

Ooooohhhh!! Nice one I hadn't seen yet. Even a Nieuport N 28! Thank you for sharing, Carrick!

Didn't get "Dawn Patrol" to run on my rig then, but yes, I played "Flying Corps" and "Wings of Glory" - must have been in the mid-nineties, I think? Want to hear the music again? Here it is:

Glad to see you're still okay and fine (a man who can still get so upset about his work place, must be in good condition). Yeah, some parts of the year, everything comes together. Don't let them take your humour away, OvS! Great job on that skin, and as Widowmaker said: very good weathering. I'd guess, it's not from a Jasta by name, but rather from a unit with a different shortcut - but I won't tell. I must say, I admire your endurance, James - take care, and have a good ride on your Harley, when you need good headwinds to blow your mind clear.

Would you say, Jonah Hex shows a lot of your area? I think I'll check, if my "Video World" has the movie. I liked Josh Brolin in "No Country for old Men" (didn't know him before).

I missed "Red Baron", and from what I hear about it, it must have been great. But I also still have "Wings of Glory" (the cheap music!), and also "Dawn Patrol" and "Flying Corps Gold". This is the signature of a sim pilot of the first hour, so to say - I like it.

I know the guys do what they can, and they won't work like Mickeysoft - they release it when it's ready. Wasn't mean too serious. But serious.

PS: ...forgot the Cajun Shrimps Jambalaya video - god, makes my mouth water! I wonder why the other town is not identified yet - I thought that should be easy???

Don't you attack me from behind like that, Widowmaker - I know you too can hardly wait!

All I knew of "Lousy anna" was Cajun music and Cajon spiced food (hmmm!). Here is some music (bad sound, but good mood).

Lovely detail about that meteor of Ensisheim, Lou, which really came down there. I knew characters like Ritter von Vogel. Quite full of themselves, but often also very friendly. We'll see how he will do. Opposites, as they seem to be, may complete each other.

Thank you, Lou! Bullethead, you know your history - thanks for the detail; I enjoyed to learn a bit more about St.Francisville. And a useless collection of buildings - well, according to an old Zen master I love, nothing exists without the spirit (and I don't mean that stuff you and many others like, although this old master liked that spirit a lot too). My own hometown - the town I grew up I mean - is now a pretty unimportant town of ca. 30.000 souls. The oldest document mentioning it is from ca. 1200, but as it is lying on a long sand elevation higher than the marshes, which got flooded by the north sea, when there were no dykes yet, it was settled already in the neolithic age. After heavy floods in early times, a huge bay had been broken into the land, following the small river Ley all the way up to Norden. That made the town a perfect harbour, and from the early Hanse trading times until ca. 1910 - 1920, the harbour was one of the important trans-shipment places in Germany. Wood, salt and turf were shipped from here, and all kinds of ware was brought to Norden for further transport on waggons. But the people regained the land bit by bit into that bay, and the land came closer to Norden and it's harbour. So, siltation made it harder and harder to keep the harbour open, and the Dyke Counts and owners of grand farms decided to close the dyke at much the same point, where the land had been before the great floods. Now it is all regained and farmed again, protected by a high dyke - for the cost of Norden's harbour. On some of the old houses, you can still se the wealth, that once was possible there. But now, Norden is a town with no special function or reason, and it is loosing more and more, and one day, there may be another neolithic settlement, where once the proud houses of wealthy merchands stood. Well, that was a special edition of "Whose town is this? Answer: Olham's" PS: the house bottom right used to be the bakery Emil Themann (now it's a pub) - he made the very best Schwarzbrot (black bread) and also the best Brötchen (brown, crispy rolls you don't get anywhere anymore). My mum had to buy both on saturdays, for the weekend. They only bought there for weekends, because it was some pennies more expensive than elsewhere, and the people didn't have so much money. They used to live much more humble back then - something we may have to learn again...

Rarely do I go political, and so this isn't - it's about professional sports. British newspapers have shown FIFA commity members up: they'd take money for their votes. Not a good idea, it seems - cause the FIFA gave the next world championship to Russia and Quatar. Many people would have liked to see it in England - me included - but no, not with the FIFA! Money makes the world go round. And the money the FIFA earns, is tax-free. No joke. Their domicile is in Switzerland - such things are possible there. Each state that wants to take part, has to sign a treaty including the assurance: the money won't get taxed! Now can you imagine, how much tax South Africa has not earned - and what they could have done with it? Should I write a letter to our minister of finance: dear Sir, I am willing to work in Germany, if you promise me that my earnings will not be taxed? I wonder what would happen, if the Colombian drug barons would offer even more money? Not that I want to compare Russia with drug barons - not in the least! Russia does really play soccer quite well. But has anyone ever heard of Quatar? I mean: about soccer teams from Quatar? More and more often I say to my friends: one should PLAY Fußball / soccer - not watch it on TV! (Sorry, but every now and then it gets me!)

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Read through all this only now, and I don't have to contribute much, as I was mostly flying air combat sims. But there was one roll-player type of game I didn't find mentioned here, which I liked very much. That's "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." The decaying world around the exploded nuclear power plant, with it's groups of Stalkers opposing each other, it's radiation-created mutants, and all those interesting "artefacts" you could find and use, or sell; the rare weapons like the burgundy red sniper gun you didn't find very often; and the "trading posts", where the traders and bar keepers might buy things of you, and give you some money, medi kits, weapons, ammo, or - if you had enough money - one of the various special (and expensive) protection suits - errh - where was I ? - well, if you like a dark end time athmosphere, it might be your game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Chernobyl PS: you could decide on your way through your game, who you wanted to make an alliance with, or you could try it alone, or to fool them all, and it was always different. Also does it have various endings - depending of how you answer the question of the Monolith at the end.

With BE2s you have a hard time against fighters. If they have forward guns, you could try this: mark an enemy fighter and press "A" for "Attack". Then attack another fighter, and press "H" for "Help!" - your wingman should now attack the fighter closest to your craft. So he will either try to keep your six clear, or attack the same craft as you do. No idea, how good they can do that, but it can't get any worse.

I can only ditto the above, so - ditto!

Yep, there are places outside L.A. where one side of the highway is still old pics, and the other side it's new already. I think, over long time, they will re-do them all.