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Thank you, Lou! Still a work in progress - not yet all fitting, but I'll continue trying. Yeah, the Albatros as a "sea bird" has many talents.

If only the Nazis had been that stupid - it would have saved the world a lot of pain. I try to laugh, but it often gets stuck in my throat when I see scenes with Nazis - even with comedy. Can't help it. I was unable to watch Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards". The scene, when Christoph Walz interviews the farmer who is hiding jews under the floorboards; the sadistic gentlemanly conduct of this officer against a man, who is only left the choice: them or my own family - I can't watch it. It makes me sick.

It's pretty weird - a chemical teacher gets the diagnose: lung cancer. He has wife and a disabled son, and they wouldn't be secured, when he dies. He is a fifty plus BOF, but now he changes his life completely: he begins to "cook" very top notch drugs. He contacts a former scholar, who now is a dealer - and a crazy story begins. I wonder, how far you can go - this is pretty amorale, but also very thrilling and exiting. I only wonder: won't the TV watchers say "Well, they showed this on TV, so why don't we do the same?"

Ah, you seem to be alright, Widowmaker - I got a bit worried reading the title. Did you see the new American series "Breaking bad" ?

PPS: see Hellshade's videos to get appetite for TrackIR. Here is one example: http://combatace.com/topic/56055-videos/page__view__findpost__p__439759

Shrapnel, you don't know what you're missing - 10 $ is nothing compared to what you'd get. I would sell my grandma for TrackIR if I didn't have it already. PS: if you send me a PM with your town and address, I'd add you to our OFF Forum Pilots maps.

Update October 11, 2010; 10:28 h Berlin summertime (= GMT + 2) GHunter, California, added. All the maps are in post 1 of this thread

Shrapnel, follow Burning Beard's and Winston's advice - or get yourself TrackIR. That device is worth every penny; you sit in your cockpit and look around. Before I got it, I always asked: how should that work, when the screen is in front of me. But it works great! You can go to YouTube and search for TrackIR demos - I wouldn't miss it!

Welcome to OFF, GHunter! If you press "Escape" ingame, you get a menue; click there on "Controls". Check what key is assigned to "Screenshots" I think it's F12. You can assign another key or button, if you want. You could make "Screenshots" by pausing the sim in a good moment, go to outside views (F4) and zoom in and out with + or -. The screenshots are saved here: (your computer name) > documents > CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields Have fun! PS: If you send me a PM with your town and country/state, I will add your name to our OFF Forum Pilots maps. Thanks!

If you want to check, wether you have good nerves, try to make a skin like this. It is a damn hell of a job. This is a work in progress; not yet ready. The distortion of the back part of this bird makes it an in-and-out between Photoshop and OFF, to make pictures, and correct it after them. See more pics here if you like it: http://combatace.com...post__p__446797

Us humans can be driven to tears by the love of a dog - so unconditional, that you can only end in "unconditional surrender".

Thank you, Bullethead, but don't hide your light under a bushel - your Fokker D.VII "Hell's Jester" is a masterpiece, and it must have taken you quite some time - or genius - to get it so beautiful. Same for your SPAD, Burning Beard - skinning can be a straining, but also rewarding job. Today, my neighbours may have thought that I had run completely nuts - I was screaming at the wall, when Photoshop didn't understand automatically, what was necessary next. Moments when you feel you need a break...

Skinner never give up! I wish you much success with those skins, now you "cracked" it.

Thank you, Widomaker - I will do my best; some parts still need fitting.

Update October 10, 2010; 13:04 h Berlin summertime (= GMT + 2) Scouseair68, Wales, added. All the maps are in post 1 of this thread

Wikipedia says it was a Sikorsky biplane: "Mechanic Phil Jones died during production after he failed to bail out before the crash of a German Gotha bomber which had been doubled by Igor Sikorsky's first biplane built after his arrival in the United States." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Angels_%28film%29 And here is the picture of it - a Sikorsky S 20, in a great site about Howard Huges: http://hrhughesjr.webs.com/howardsairplanes.htm

Thank you guys! Are those red-white barberpoles still in use in England and America? Hellshade, I count 19 German Albatros over your field. That would indeed be the whole Staffel attacking you. They are not one of the best units, as far as I know, but the sheer number of craft is impressive. You were quite lucky with that assistance of the French. I very rarely had another German flight over my fields. Would help to get airborne, surely. I'll check for your video later this evening.

In a way probably the only filmed document that shows, how they were really flying those crates. I wish, the guys who made "Flyboys" or "The Red Baron" would have seen this movie and learnt from it, instead of going over the top.

Here are the first pictures of a new skin in progress (not yet ready - it is a hell of work to get the stripes all joining); It is the Albatros D.III (OAW) of Oberleutnant Josef Loeser, Jasta 39, Italy. The stripes may have been red or black. I made this after the file from Bob Pearson's "Aircraft Colours and Markings of the First World War area".

Stuff like this always causes me goose skin. I searched through the aerial photographies and trench maps at McMaster University Archive and found an aerial photograph with the clear note "Rouvroy, SE of Lens". Now I had to search for Rouvroy in Google Maps, to see how it looks today. I angled the picture after the painted arrow to north. Then I took a screenshot of the village's satelite picture. There ain't nothing spectacular - it's just a touch of history. If anyone knows a good site with aerial pictures of aerodromes, please let me know. For all, who don't know the McMaster archive yet (there are lots of maps and pictures): http://library.mcmas...ps/ww1/home.htm

I have now almost finished a project I had started some time ago. I wanted to make one map of Rabu's map parts, with the airfield names positioned right at the fields, in the map. This is all done now. I have then replaced the Iron Crosses marking the German fields, with blue aircraft symbols. I had seen that in the trench maps of McMaster University. I would like to use blue for German, and red for Entente airfields. Would that be okay for everyone, or would you Entente pilots prefer to have your maps the other way round? In that case I would place two maps in the download sector. The map is square, 38 x 38,8 cm; so it could be printed out on 4 letter size sheets, and get glued together. I'm also thinking of offering the center in two larger parts; what do you think? Here is a small excerpt from the map:

Yes, good idea, mighty.

Here are two aerial photographies of Ypres - and today from Google Maps: Yepers. The beautiful town must have been almost totally destroyed.