Olham

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Update 12/10/09 01:42 Berlin wintertime (= GMT + 1) Speedy2511, Germany, added. All the maps are in post 1 of this thread

Another picture of him, I hadn't seen before. Thanks for sharing.

Okay, but now Screenshots again. This is my latest skin, inspired by Cole Palen's Albatros from Old Rhinebeck aerodrome. I'm still tweaking it. The rudder fin was dark greygreen first; now it is like Palen's fin all white. Not sure which to keep. All pics are from my last two flight for Jasta 15, where I sometimes fly with Ernst Udet (great feeling - and he is really doing great!). The aerodrome below me was devastated by Strutters short before. Short after that, I shot one down with my last ammo. In a wide turn, he returned to the field, as if he wanted to add some final destruction with his crash. Meanwhile, all the guys know me for my dead stick landings, due to petrol being out. This time I landed at a farm complex. The women where very shy at the sight of a German pilot; the men where at war on the other side, I suppose. When I spoke my best possible French, they gave me apple tarte with almonds and cream, and coffee! What a wonderful country! Next time I'll come back in the evening and try their wines with them... O lala!

Hey, Speedy/Nico You can use Bullethead's way, or you google for a freeware like "DXTBmp", which I use. There, you click on "browse" and search for the skin files. Those are here: (Your sim folder) > campaigns > campaign data > skins If you should ever have a difficult question you couldn't say in English, write it in German. I'm German too. Oh, before I forget: this is NOT a game! But you'll find out... PS: please send me a PM with your hometown, and I'll add you to our OFF Pilot's maps.

I have been thinking about the question, why I like to play fighter pilot. Here is my answer. I believe that us men have a very old hunting instinct and even desire in us. I never met a woman yet, who understands this sim, or any other combat sim. But men have a different relationship to hunting, and to the weapons they use. To check, to hold or to inspect a good weapon, causes feelings like respect and a form of sympathy to the well made object, and maybe the maker of it. A fighter aircraft is now the highest evolutionary form of a weapon. When I'm flying it, I am the only one who controlls and uses it. I am in the moments of fighting absolutely independant. And I duel with another warrior using a similarly high evolutionary form of a weapon. The mix of excitement and sheer stress, that comes up and causes a rush of adrenalin, must be a very old experience - older than language. To fight a fight well, precise and cool, decides about whether you win it or not. In our evolutionary days, that was a decision of life or death - existance or oblivion. I believe, it's still in our genes. And I don't think, we like the slaughter. We don't like to hurt and see the terrible wounds, or the death (except when we really hate an enemy, may be) - what we like is to win a fight. To beat opponents. To be superiour. To be independent. Edit: I forgot the "tribal aspect". Although the fight in a fighter craft is a most independent form of fighting, all fighters belong to one tribe or the other. And they mark their aircraft with signs for the tribes, which have to be most visible like statements. In addition, there may be individual markings of each warrior painted on his craft. And the markings of the really great warriors are known among his enemies. Had the Entente pilots not been forbidden to go as far as the Germans - I'm pretty sure they would have painted their craft in similar ways. It's all about our main evolutionary power/drive: competition.

It's cute, Widowmaker, but at that price you might be able to build one with landing gear? Don't know about the RC market, but I'd go for such a "toy".

There are more pictures telling the same dark story. Lothar von Richthofen in hospital with the gear to hold his fractured jaw together, staring into the camera in a failing attempt to look optimistic. One photograph of Berthold, where it's really visible how much he must have been drinking recently. Hope you guys won't be disappointed by the movie - it is not at all an action movie.

Well, Jammer used to make some excellent videos with FRAPS. He worked like a director, making cockpit shots as well as outer sight shots, and later he edited it them - just search YouTube for "Over Flanders Fields Jammer". Here is his "The Dark Knight":

Hey, Cameljockey! Good to see you - greetings over the pond! Tried to send you a PM, but a panel came up reading, you can't receive any PM ??? Anyway: I wish you and your family a good gemuetliche Weihnacht.

Lou, for a man as interested in the whole WW1 aviation as you are, I would say: you can't do anything wrong there - get it; you will like it. You should even watch it without reading the subtitles the first time - it was incredible, how much I got without being any good at French. But it's the expression and the acting, and what they do, that explains it almost intuitive.

It is about Guynemer a lot, I would say. He cannot join the French army due to his tuberculosis, he just cured; they won't have him. Then he works hard on becoming a pilot, although he suffers from vertigo. But he makes it and starts in the Morane Parasol. Well, I won't tell the whole film, but I found it good.

Good one! Did you write that yourself, Louvert ?

Just ordered this second-hand book at AMAZON for 15,- Euro: Jagdflieger im Feuer Kriegserlebnisse eines Kampf- und Jagdfliegers beim Jagdgeschwader III Jagdstaffel Boelcke u. a. (H. F. Kurt Jentsch) Does anyone know this book? I looked up the name at the aerodrome, and he was a Jagdflieger with 7 victories. The problem with German books about WW1 fighter pilots is often, that they where released in the early Nazi years, and might be "coloured" by propaganda. So if anyone read it, please tell, how it is.

Wow! Only two of you - like at Pearl Harbour. When you survive a 'Scramble', you can come in with a lot of kills. Good it didn't go wrong, Airshark.

Great to see you all! And funny! Widowmaker, you must have missed the post before your last one - otherwise you would have "bitten" at that picture. Rickitycrate - you don't look at all rickity to me; rather like a senior sportsman. Perhaps a Marlin angler? Louvert - it's already half done! Just attach some wings from the next Eindecker you shoot down, and there you go! Av8er - where is the picture? Crossbones - give your kids the camera. They'll do a silly one. Edit: Widowmaker - your junior seems to have all the stuff I dreamt of as a kid! Lucky boy! My desired uniform was blue, with a yellow band along the leg sides. It had a black hat with a golden cord around and crossed sabres on the front. A blue shirt with double rows of buttons, a yellow neckerchief, white gloves, black boots - you got it: the U.S. Cavallery. I never got one, and had to make it myself from old blue jeans and other stuff. But in my phantasy it looked really good! Lol!

Hey, you guys must have far too much time left to waste. When you consider, that a male human being spends about 4 days of his life- including the nights - on shaving the beard from his face (not to mention other time consuming nonsense as lawn mowing) - I aks you: ain't you got nothing better to do but wasting your time? The bell! I must hurry back into my cockpit ! ...

The older I get, the better I can wait for the good things to come. (That's one good point in getting older!)

Fighting a Vodka hangover with Jack Daniels could get nasty, Siggi. Hey, Widowmaker - fishing from a balcony? Nice to see some of you getting a face now.

Good grief, Creaghorn - I have debts at the tax office - hope you don't work for those guys?!? Well, here is a Photoshop work I did with a picture of me. But there is a lot of retouche and some tricks - don't be afraid, I don't really look like that at all. I did it some time ago, to create my alter ego: the Bordeaux-Red Baron

Jeeze - how did you survive that?

Update 12/08/09 12:05 Berlin wintertime (= GMT + 1) CamelB6313, British Columbia, added. All the maps are in post 1 of this thread

Scout, as far as I understand, only the two-seater time will be summed up, so that you mustn't return to them anymore, once you collected 50 hours. You must not, but you could, if you wanted. The "time-jumping" idea is rather not practical, although I understand, that you want to fly a D VII, Velvet. But it would mess the whole thing up a lot.

Thanks for sharing, Rooster. I still know hardly anything about those aviators, and didn't even know, that Boelke was published. Interesting read!