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  1. It all kicked off today

    We have quotation marks and use them the same way, Parky - I was just tempted to repeat my favourite answer anyway, when someone writes "game" about OFF. I see there is still a lot of seeing history a bit distorted, seeing "good sides" and "bad sides". There may be starters of wars, but there are also others, who only waited for good reasons to join in. World War One was not about defending the "good side", it wasn't defending Hobbitland against Sauron and Saruman - all sides had their Saruman-like steel industries; all sides were dark, too. There are and were no "good sides" - they were all very similar. It was the inescapable clash of industrial super powers. It had to happen, one way or the other. The shot in Sarajevo and what came of it, is just an unimportant starter. It could as well have been another reason.That is the cheerless truth IMHO.
  2. Ah, the "Three Lakes" - we used to fight there a lot with Jasta 6 in the "Full DiD" Campaign.
  3. Churchill in UFO cover-up

    Don't panik! (Douglas Adams)
  4. Came here to help, but Rickitycrate was faster. So I can only ditto his last remark.
  5. Churchill in UFO cover-up

    UFOs, Politicians and the Summer Hole In summer, when the politicians go on holidays, there are not enough news, as we all know; the press call it the "summer hole". And every summer happens the same: the agencies dig in the old news piles to produce something about UFOs. So it's clear how the UFOs appear and leave: through a variant of the "wormhole", the "summer hole". Thinking about the lack of good news in summer brought me to this conclusion: when only bad news are good news for the press and media, and no bad news come up, when the politicians are on holidays - could it then be, that the politicians are doing all the bad things on earth? Oh, and here is one of those UFOs the Allied pilots might have spotted on their raids: http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/the_retro_horten_229_stealth_fighter_recreated.php
  6. So they exchange books with foreign libraries - almost world wide? That is a phantastic service indeed!
  7. It all kicked off today

    Parky, I keep repeating it: this is no game!
  8. Another video, which isn't available in Germany, probably due to music copyrights. I wonder, if the Germans are the last and only ones who have to follow the law. Everyone else seems to be able to watch them?
  9. Okay, here comes the next one. The Sopwith Triplane and the Fokker Dr.1 were not the first Triplanes. This one was only built in a very small number, but the constructor built more types. What's this plane?
  10. It all kicked off today

    The common men are never the ones who start the wars. They only have to fight them; they get crippled and their souls get totured - and they die in them. May they all rest in peace. And may this incredible bloodshed and total waste have led to one good thing: that we know it leaves only few winners, but millions of victims - it can't be won.
  11. Dej, I must admit, that I didn't know him, but I like this piece. It sounds like childhood memories of the great adventures we only have with such depth, when we are young and not yet distracted by human life's duties. Death as the master of all wars does reach his aims best when killing the artists - creating more darkness on earth. Butterworth has no grave, but he has left something greater to remember him - his music. I'll search for more.
  12. Hey, better be careful, "Yellow Mellow", next time I see you, I'll shredder your skin! Never had much of a problem with SPADs.
  13. Who knows, Carrick - the Bavarian immigrants may have brought Wolpertinger with them, some escaped and are now happily breeding in the Texan wildlife?
  14. Thanks for the info - this is one of those movies I always missed on TV. So I will hopefully get it now.
  15. In a "scramble" with MFJ-1 at Coolkerke, I found a better way to survive and even bring back wingmen. Bevor, I had always used the "Attack" command - either had I marked a single aircraft to attack, or, more often, I had used it as a general order. The result: everybody was spread out after short time, fighting their own fight, and most often loosing them. Today, I only pressed the "Help" command repeatedly. The result: the wingmen were around and with me, and they took each and every craft under fire, that got close to me. This kept my back mostly free, and they drove off any fighter, that tried to concentrate on me. I could meanwhile attack those craft, that were about to attack my wingmen; I damaged many of them. This way, my wingmen and I had soon damaged so many crates, that the attackers had lost their bite; they merely crawled around, and now we could kill them, one after the other. This was the first time, that I brought back 4 of my 6 wingmen from a "scramble" fight - it felt great!
  16. You could be right, Winston. But it resulted in the wingmen being around and behind me and clearing my back so well, that I could chase and fire at each craft I wanted. Yes, I'll report further more.
  17. Yep, or a DFW Mars "Pfeil". And here is what you possibly meant about the RNAS, Dej: Captain Collet lost his life on 19th August 1915 when the aircraft he was flying crashed soon after taking off from Imbros aerodrome, having climbed to 150 feet the engine cut out and the aircraft crashed and caught fire. Chief Petty Officer Michael Sullivan Keogh (HMS Ark Royal) attempted to rescue Captain Collet from the burning wreckage and sustained serious burns himself. He managed to drag the pilot clear but Collet had died of his injuries. For his bravery Chief Petty Officer Keogh was awarded the Albert Medal. The aircraft was built by DFW (Deutsch Flugzeugwerke GMbH, Germany) and purchased under contract no. C.P. 36909/14. On 17th March 1914 it arrived at Brooklands from Germany and was assembled before being tested on 25th March 1914 and accepted at Brooklands. On 13th May 1914 it suffered a repairable accident whilst on the flight from Porstmouth to Wick, flown by Lt C H Collet RMA, (who was it's regular pilot thereafter) with a supplimentary fuel tank installed, the engine failed (a 100 h.p. Mercedes) which resulted in a forced landing at Jenning's Farm, near Donna Nook, Lincolnshire. On 3rd June 1914 the aircraft was delivered to R.N.A.S. Eastchurch, possibly on arrival at Eastchurch it was re-engined with a Beardmore 120 h.p. motor. By 8th Augsust 1914 it had been allotted to the R.N.A.S. Eastchurch defence and became part of the Eastchurch (Mobile) Squadron. There is no record of it's arrival at Scarborough Racecourse on 10th August 1914 but it did arrive at Skegness on 11th August 1914 so it must have been quickly repaired. The Mobile Sqn. were based at R.N.A.S. Immingham from 9th August 1914, moving to R.N.A.S. Skegness on 11th August, moving back to Eastchurch on 24th August. For some reason No.154 was left behind at R.N.A.S. Killingholme, and it was back at R.N.A.S. Immingham on 28th August, again flown by Collett. Whilst stationed at Immingham in October 1914 it was grounded for identification reasons. It was dismantled at Immingham on 6th October and then transported to R.N.A.S. Eastchurch on 8th October. It was deleted from R.N.A.S. records on 20th February 1915 and parts were sent to R.N.A.S. Killingholme and Wormwood Scrubs on 19th June 1915. May I post the next one now?
  18. OFF Forum Pilots Maps

    Update August 3; 2010; 23:33 h Berlin summertime (= GMT + 2) Smithy26, Scotland, added. All the maps are in post 1 of this thread
  19. Welcome to Over Flanders Fields, Smithy! Those coloured birds must have been Albatros D.III (early); the D.II were not painted in such colours, and when Manfred von Richthofen flew a D.II, he was still in Jasta 2. Since I am mostly flying German side, I have shot down British or Canadian or Australian aces. But yes, there were fights, in which I have shot down three or four aces. You know, the killing of aces is not (yet) the greatest challenge. To live long, or even through the whole war, is the difficulty. We shoot down many craft, cause we don't care very much, if we loose our pilot - we just create a new one. But I must admit, I never made it much longer than two months of the war, before I fell. So I am not even nearly as good as Fonck, Udet, Bishop or Beauchamp-Proctor - aces, who lived after the war. Did you bring all your wingmen back alive? That is something to achieve - often very hard, but worth it; you'll feel great! I see you noted your town and country - I'll add you to our OFF Forum Pilots Maps, if you don't mind. (see "Sticky Threads")
  20. The OFF Poetry Corner

    Found a (not too good) German translation of Magee's poem in Wikipedia, and worked it out, hopefully to the better. Here it is: Höhenflug Oh, ich bin den grauen Fesseln der Erde entschlüpft Und tanze durch den Himmel auf den silbrig lächelnden Flügeln. Sonnenwärts steig ich auf in die wirbelnde Fröhlichkeit sonnenumglänzter Wolken. Niemals hast Du davon geträumt - abgehoben, aufgestiegen, emporgeschwungen Hoch in die sonnenhelle Stille. Schwebend dort habe ich den heulenden Wind gejagt, und schleuderte mein eifriges Flugzeug durch bodenlose Hallen aus Luft. Hoch, hoch hinaus, ins berauschend brennende Blau, habe ich die windgepeitschten Höhen mit leichter Anmut überwunden, Wo nie die Lerche, nicht einmal der Adler fliegen. und erhabenen Geistes betrat ich die hohe, unberührte Heiligkeit des Alls, streckte meine Hand aus und berührte das Antlitz Gottes.
  21. The OFF Poetry Corner

    A fine ode to flying, Dej - seems you British had the more poetical flyers. I have yet to find a good German poem about this still so young human achievement.
  22. Phase 4 - ETA?

    Maybe, Morris - updated sims request updated rigs. C'est la vie!
  23. Haven't checked it myself; no idea, if it is good, and if it can be clicked to appear in English or even German. But it looked interesting enough to post it here. http://www.aeropedia.info/web/content.php?article.1002538
  24. Aeropedia ?

    Wow! Dej, you got me worried there a bit - I would have expected you to dig through the aircraft and stuff. But you discovered this Stewardess first - there seems to be potential in that site!
  25. The "Skinning Virus" is still active - today I made me a new Albatros D.Va for MFJ-1. I had discovered the Lozenge-painted bird of Ludwig Reimann, Jasta 78b, which was painted by Paarma, I believe (?). I combined it with yellow cowling and rudder, typical marking for MFJ-1. For fun, I repeated a "Scramble" 4 times, until I found the right way to fight such attacks. (See my new thread about that.)
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