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There are many remains of WW2 airfield in England - more than I had thought. Here is a site with some great pics of still standing buildings: http://www.panoramio.com/user/5550986?comment_page=1&photo_page=1 Corsaire, you're right; I post at both places. My output isn't so high anymore, that I could have different things in each place - I guess I have shot most of my powder in over 15.000 posts here.

If you need a quiet sector, why not also a beautiful one - you could fly down in Alsace-Lorraine. That was never a hot spot in that war, and the lanscape is wonderful. Buhl is nice, for example. This interactive website may help you to decide about place, squadron and time. You can search by date, squadron or airfield. When you move the cursor over an airfield marking, you'll see which sqdn was there, and when. http://patriot.net/~townsend/WW1AirMap2/

Have fun, Dave - I also came a bit later, and my experiencing will sure take a LOT more time still.

Just had a good dogfight with a Sopwith Strutter, which I finally shot down; but the gunner also wounded me and damaged my engine. When I heard irritating new sounds, I immediately reduced throttle by half. I dived away, and then checked my health status: 77%. F5 info also showed the engine status - still 100%. So - where the noises I believed to hear, not so bad? I pushed throttle forward - only to see a rapidly decreasing engine health value! Quickly I reduced throttle again - and the decrease stopped. The value staiblised at 67% engine health. I almost reached my homefield with that, but the craft slowly went lower and lower, and when a treeline had to overcome, I gave some more throttle. With the consequence, that the engine now quickly died. I could just put my craft down next to a road. Thank you, Robert, for your idea to land next to roads in such cases - it saved my pilot! In that thick snow and rain drizzle I wouldn't have seen any fences. Thanks also to Creaghorn - your sounds are very good and they tell something about how the engine "feels" - if one only listens!

Yes, and I miss it too. After all it wouldn't be too difficult to visit two places - SimHQ AND CombatAce IMHO. But in both places there isn't that much going on. Maybe the spring attracts everyone to be out more?

The video is very well made; this is ONE commercial everyone should see! The "Editor's Choice Award" is a great and well-deserved honour IMHO!

Thank you guys!

Where is that, Hauksbee - is it a WW2 field?

When this Frenchman was defenseless after our fight, I thought I'd let him put his crippled kite down. And then came our ace Jakob Wolff and shot him to Smithereens! Historical ace - or a vulture? Now he wonders why I don't speak with him all evening! ...

Great stuff, Deadhead - I like especially the Brisfit!

It is not normal, that your flight bugs out ALL the time. "AI always engages" is not the solution - the new AI in WOFF is a masterpiece, which would be ignored by that selection. You should try another squadron, make sure that you have the new patch 1.21; if it is still that way with several squadrons, you should reinstall IMHO.

I do not often envy anyone for anything - but I envy Kermit Weeks from "Fantasy of Flight", Florida: the man has a flyable Albatros D.Va replica - and he can fly it! He makes videos about the planes he is flying, often with his "Kermie Cam", a helmet camera. Here are his adventures with the Sopwith Snipe - in three parts: http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3928823/Flying_the_Sopwith_Snipe_Kermi#Post3928823

Hey, HPW - come back and fight like a man - aerh, I mean: come up with a question! You can think of SOMEthing to ask, can't you?

This is amazing - to see the former WW1 pilot, who had written this great book* which I've read, now talking 'alive' and freshly about the air war of those days! No idea, how you did it, Widowmaker, but first the link wouldn't work for me; now it does won'fully - thanks a lot for sharing! * "Sagittarius Rising"

Hauksbee, a "Blindgänger" (blindwalker) is an explosive (bomb, shell etc.), which did not explode at it's impact, as it should have - a dud in English. In German cities they still find tons of unexploded bombs from WW2, which didn't blow up, but are still lethal. The interiour of the detonators looks like new mostly, when they open them.

His job offered him this chance - and he used it to the full. Great collection!

Well, I found out that the America Glenn L. Martin Company was said to have used self-sealing tanks first in their planes. In 1918 they built the bombers MB-1 and MB-2, but it seems they didn't see service anymore. One of the first WW2 planes with such tanks was the Fairy Battle.

What a wonderfully detailed and thorough review, LIMA33 ! Being a fanboy since OFF, I can only agree with your 'final verdict' * - I have never before been immersed into any other sim like in OFF, and now in WOFF. * (well, perhaps he amount of ace skins is even VERY good, with over 1100 ace skins alone for the Albatros types?)

Welcome to the club, Robert...

Congrats, Sherlock... - aerh, HPW! Nice detective work! Now it's your turn!

...this quiz seems way too hard for me...

I guess RAF_Louvert might be the man to contact - but the book is available at ABEBOOKS.

Tom, here's an "American Dream Tableau" - made especially for you. My very first flight was from Bremen to Berlin, when I was 11 years old - it was in a Convair Metropolitain. I had to fly alone to my grandma, as my parents wanted to prepare their divorce (which I didn't even know). Well, I was lucky - a boy alone on an airplane is often asked to see the cockpit, and so that beautiful stewardess asked me, and of course I would! She brought me there, and I remember how amazed I was about all those many instruments. That trip to Berlin is connected with another fine memory. My dad used to buy the monthly "Micky Maus" comics fro me - well, he read them first, and then I could have them - but in Berlin I walked along the Gardeschützenweg and saw in a stand outside a kiosk the first "Donald Duck Special Edition", which contained two wonderful stories by the great Carl Barks, the best Donald Duck artist. I still have that comic.

There is a great 'mockumentary' about the moon landing being a fake - "Dark Side of the Moon". The director made it with interview snippets he presented in wrong context, and even with the real Henry Kissinger, a real general, and the real wife of Stanley Kubrick (he directed the film "2001 A Space Odyssee" and was said to have made the moon landing fake). When I saw it first, I took it for real - until, in the end titles - they unveil that it was all just a big fake to show the people, how easy it is to make you believe in conspiracy theories. When you get the chance to see this - watch it; it's brilliant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Moon_%28film%29

Was that the "Super Constellation", Tom? That must have been the most beautiful passenger airliner ever built IMHO. Damn, yeah, childhood - how fresh some of it still is... Must be, because the hard disc was all new, and nothing yet overwritten or deleted... Thank you for your great story, Tom! Those NASA programs were watched all over the world, I guess - at least I did. and I was drawing lots of astronauts, or later I did all the Apollo mission emblems in colour.