Olham

My god, each time I see the thin wires or the way rope held something together, I really wonder how they dared to get up in these crates! Does anyone know, why the wheel spokes were always covered with linnen?

...does performance increase with lighter fuel loads? Oh yes, it makes a difference. Try a "Scramble" with only 20% fuel filled in. Your kite will be like a wild pony - much better agility.

Or he can't get a connection to the server of the "other sim"?

I have tested the "new" SPAD XIII today. So far I can say, that you can dare to turn with an Albatros DVa or a Pfalz DIIIa now, but not with Fokker Dr.1 or DVII. What worked very well for change of direction, was the high turn. You zoom up after very steep after a dive (50 - 60 °), and when she gets slower, give full rudder. She'll turn her nose down and opposite direction without problems. Similar to the Pfalz, I could do the tightest turns better without use of rudder - I left it centered. If you want to turn with rudder, you shouldn't bank more than ca. 50° and use rudder in turn direction. If you bank steeper with rudder use, you may stall sidewards. Her overall behaviour was so much better, that I feel encouraged to fly a campaign with her. But she is very reactive on elevator, which makes aiming/shooting trickier than in my Albatros. Anyway - many of you, who had thought about flying her: try it now! It's fun now! And with 200 PS (horsepower), you have a very strong plus!

For Hasse Wind, our honorable reconnaisanz and bomber pilot, who iss fyink one mission after zee ozzer, indefatigably, for ze Kaiser and ze Fazzerland!

Yep - it could mean: this is me, the one with the cross. Or: this observer is dead...

Yep, Herr Prop-Wasche, as I said: you can turn softly banked, with rudder, or turn tight hard banked, with only elevator.

Go to "Workshop", bottom, right from center, there is the choice: - fuel management or - individual skin You can't have both (with fuel mangement, other wings may have the same skin as you).

Von Paulus: At this point, the client was in a catatonic state.

Here is an excellent model on "The Aerodrome" website. And other great models too. http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/members/beeza-albums-my-1-32-ww1-aircraft-collection-picture963-wnw-1-32-scale-lvg.html

I was searching especially for an early version of RLM 02 Grey, and found it on the website below. Now the modellers among you know, we can be pretty "anal-fixated" about detail and research. But nevertheless, I really found two versions of that Grey. It had a different tone until 1940, when it was slightly changed. At "The Aerodrome" I have asked Dan-San for his opinion of the factory colours of Albatros hoods, and he replied, that until the D Va, all hoods/cowlings were factory-painted in the grey, that was later called RLM 02 - as I had assumed. Now, here are the two versions of the RLM 02 - as I said - you may not find much difference. Later, the hoods were of course field-painted to the likes of the Jastas, or even single pilots. Lots of colour samples here: http://www.schiffsmo...ndardfarben.htm

Hihi, that's why I said the above. It didn't matter so much, that there were two versions. I was just glad to find a sample, Now I was able to make a factory painted hood. Here is what I have done so far:

Oh my god - was it your fault, von Paulus. Did he kill you?

Well, but you got it done, and she's looking great! To stay alive in her: fly as high as possible - this craft can fly the highest altitude in OFF. At least 14.000 feet. For more advice, Hasse Wind will come in hopefully. He loves the "bitch". And really, she is a sturdy and reliable craft - if only the engine wasn't in the forward view!

This shows again: any human intelligence security measures will be overrun by human intelligence.

Thanks, M8!

Yes, that glossy finish could just be clear varnish. After cleaning the surfaces a lot, or after surface damage, they may have overpainted them with a new coat?

Okay, thank you, Paarma! Then I'll have a chance!

Thanks for sharing, Paarma - not sure, if I can understand a word though. Although you are not very far away across the Baltic Sea from Berlin, it makes a difference.

From the Picture Album of the Bordeauxred Baron 1. A "Storck" should not mess with an "Albatros"! Mmuahahahahahaaaaa!!!! 2. One of zeese momentz, when you think: Thank you, Gravity!

"Others"? Don't they live in parallel worlds? But we can't see them? Nor can they see us? In that case, they don't matter. Mmuahahahahahahaaaaaaa!!!!

Thanks for the cooling tip, Bandy. I am flying May 1917. And I noticed, that the white jaggies did return, when I flew my Marne region pilot. So it seems to be so, that the southern regions with many more wood / trees take more graphic or CPU power. For the southern regions, I need to set the "Scenery Detail" slider back to 4. But a common opinion here seems to be wrong: clouds I can still run on 5, and when I check fast head movements, whilst I look up (so no terrain is to be generated), then I don't have jaggies or stutters.

Von Baur, I did some test flying my new skins yesterday, and I broke off right at the start, cause I saw something wasn't yet looking right. But I was credited: flying time 53 minutes. For what? I hadn't even lifted off. The second time again; flying time: 83 minutes. Without taking off at all. It seems to me, that each mission just has a pre-estimated flying time, that you get credited with - no matter how long you really fly.