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Fly the Fokker E V then! It was MADE for enjoying Winder's landscape!

PS: Pips, the Bristol Fighter is probably the best aircraft on the British side. I don't find the view really bad. Even hammered a D V very well. A trick (a cushion under the bum): if you use TrackIR, and find you are sitting too low, just duck, press "center view", and then sit straight again.

Catch: Take the Albatros .... no offence Mahlo .... a beautiful sleek aerodynamic design .... but then they plonk half the engine outside the bodywork ruining the whole effect No offence taken, Catch - after all, it isn't my design anyway. But I wonder, if you have ever flown the Albatros yourself (in the sim, of course)? I find, it has one of the best allround views of all the crates here, together with the Pfalz. Only the Albatros D I had a terrible forward view (not in OFF); and our D II still has that cooling tank above the engine, which makes it difficult to aim deflection shots at targets in a right turn. But the D III and D V have a wonderful view - try them (if you could manage to set a foot into a "Hun plane" ?). For the British craft, I much prefer the S.E.5a over the Camel, for it's view and "untrickyness". Maybe I'm an "inline pilot"?

The way "Over Flanders Fields" is concepted and created means more to me than I can put into words. They have done the superb job, almost a little miracle *, that I do feel like a pilot in that time, when I pick a campaign / carreer. Of course, the aircraft do look excellent in RoF (only seen videos; don't have it); and the trains, tanks and the water etc. And of course I'd like to mix parts of each up to a new, even greater sim. But since that will never be, I much prefer to fly "equipped with the full immersion". And the curiosity, what the devs will come up with next. (lots of historical research, and accuracy on 4.000 plus skins)

I must admire your ways to attract attention, only to bring in the SNIPE another way, Widow! The good old days of youth, eyh? Have you seen the film "Hope and Glory" by John Boorman? That told me a lot about how life was for the civilians down below the Battle of Britain. A graveyard of fine aeroplanes indeed, Catch - what a waste! Imagine, they would still exist there, in a forgotten hangar...

You all behaved quite civilised, I'd say. And I say "Amen" to your last two lines, Mighty.

This was great to read from all you skinners - thank you very much! And it will make me take up the challenge again, of making a German Naval hex camo for an MFJ 1 Albatros - with the hex camo also over the upper fuselage! Everyone, who tried to link the Albatros sides with the (distorted) back part, will know what I'm talking about.

Searching for "Wassigny" in Google Pictures, I came to this website with postcard pictures of railway stations. And seeing them through, I found many names of places, were German Jastas had been in the Great War. And suddenly it all made sense: this way, they could get supplies, fresh troops and even aircraft via railway. http://mes.gares.fre...page_memes3.htm

Yeah, I thought they do it that way. For some people, Francis Drake was a pirate - for others a "Sir".

Well, a believeable guess is better than nothing - thank you, Dej! PS: Checked the spreadsheets there, and it says the same. Good address; thanks, Dej!

Pics are always nice - here is the N17 RC Model. Thanks, Anastasios - will check the poster!

Well, I don't know anything about the numbering processes really, but according to Achim Engles from Fokker-Team Schorndorf, the aircraft had: Abnahme-Nummern (final inspection / acceptance numbers) and Werknummern (factory numbers) For the Abnahme-Nummern 201/17 - 220/17 he lists the Werknummern 1920 - 1939. That should mean, that our Fokker with the Abnahme-Nummer 212 was the Werknummer 1931. Perhaps Shredward could tell us more about Nr. 212 ?

In German, Mimi is a female first name; I have also seen "Mimmi" with the two "M". I also checked for "Mimmi" in the web, and found, it is the deminuitive form of "Vilhelmiina" in Finnish. Paarma?? http://www.behindthename.com/name/mimmi

Well, the writing "Mimmi" will remind you of Hendrix' record covers of the time - it's almost "Flower Power Pop"!

A cat and a dog? Well, people say, opposites attract. And I have in fact been living on a farm for some years, were a dog and a cat lived happily together - he had know it as a kitten, so there was no hunting reflex from his side, and no panicing from hers. It was so cute, to observe, how the little cat used to climb on his head, when he slept, as if she wanted to be as close as possible, lay down there and fell asleep too. Another battle-proven advice perhaps (got it from a professional room painter): if unsure about a colour, paint a square of 6 x 6 feet; then decide about it. Could save you from doing the whole room a third time. (Women have strange ways of finding out, if we still love them).

Well, I have learnt a lot from my relationships. When my last lady wanted her living room (she was fortunately still living in her own place) in a kind of "Papyrus", I went to the "Do it yourself" market with her and chose a colour. Being a Graphic Designer, I know that colours in rooms should always be chosen much brighter than you first think. So I picked the lightest "Papyrus" tone. She found it much too light, but I said "Wait until you see the room done". When it was painted, she said "yeah, it's lovely, but I still think it should be darker". I said "okay, we paint it darker - but when it's too dark then, you will have to paint it brighter all on your own. I won't paint this room a third time. And you may have to paint it twice, as a brighter colour won't kill the darker so easily." Said and done. We did it darker. Two days later she said: "I feel depressed in this room. It is really too dark now. You were right." Call me a basterd, but I let her paint it all over alone, hoping for some "learning effect". And really - since then, she never tried such things with me again. But it didn't last; and the above may speak for you, OvS: you must REALLY love her very much.

However much I would love to fly an Albatros and even dogfight in it, after short time, I would surely miss some options we are given here, like: - pause button - Labels - Enlist new Pilot And I also couldn't brew a fresh coffee, paused, and enjoy it with cookies.

Ooops??? What is this? Did everybody loose their upper wings simultaneously, or did you test-fly an early monoplane low-decker?

Well, just recently I saw this documentation about the Battle of Britain. And I was asthonished, that Dowding obviously had told some people, that he often saw and listened to British pilots, who had been shot down and killed. They came to him; he saw them in his office, and in broad daylight. Now Hugh Dowding was a man, who seems to have foreseen the coming hardships of battling the German Luftwaffe; and he had installed many great measures. Not the type of man, who believes in spooky stories and all that. A radio won't receive much understandable stuff, if it isn't tuned to a specific frequency, to a station, a sender. But if it is...

Dej, that's great you are still doing it! Shred, I believe every word of that! Good you all kept doing it!

Lou, you can see some good interiour of the "Mitchell" in the bizarre movie "CATCH 22". But maybe you don't want that feeling again - then better not watch that film.

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Rickitycrate: Well it's no wonder they outlive us.

I often notice about myself, that I tend to see that time in a "softened light", as if the development of the people and the technology was not very far yet. People look so naive in photographs. But then I find pictures like this one, and I realise, that this was the clash of modern industrial giants. The American Civil War was the first war perhaps, were industrial power appeared so strongly in the later years. But in the Great War, this industries and their supplies were already installed in each of the parties, and their "veins of supply" were definitely the railways.

San Francisco, 1967 - yes! Flanders, 1917 - no! Even if I had been a fighter pilot, and even if I had been really good at it, I would have rather been the type, who takes more and more risks, the longer it goes well. And one day, I would have been shot down. I feel, that I would have never returned from there. But who knows - after reading Lou's report about the B25 (which gave me a good goose skin; I've seen similar reports on TV), we might have lived through other lives before. You can only just do your best in any time. But deliberately choose one particular time is difficult. I feel a bit shizophrenic about my army time for example - I wouldn't want to miss it, but I also wouldn't want to live through it again.