Olham

What I understood: all participants will - start a campaign at the same (yet to be fixed) date - fly their missions absolutely DiD without any crutches - present their updated logs after every flight on your (yet to be created) website That sounds like a most immersive idea for action and exchange. Some might even add more to it by writing Combat Reports (into that sticky) after some sorties. One question from me: Surely, many of us will die under such circumstances, before they get careful enough with that pilot to make it over a longer time. How will you proceed in those cases? Will they a) start at that time with a new pilot then (with all victories and medals gone, of course)? or will they b) drop out of the competition, until it's "last man standing"?

Thanks; cool!

If you like dogfighting with an AI, that really fights you, you should be right here. Welcome back, Pappy.

Isn't it impressive to see, when they overcome their first instinctive natural inbuilt fear, and then begin to discover, what is possible for them? A very bad day for the morale of the lions here. There used to be another one, which I can't find anymore, about a leopard trying to catch a warthog piglet. The sows turn round with no hesitation and overrun the leopard, who breaks hid tail. He jumps out of the trouble vertical, only to land in the following more sows again. He was overrun twice, before he could escape with a rectangle hanging down tail

Can it be viewed without having Exel? Any other program?

Siggi, you made me happy after a rather greyish day. I'm sure, a guy who runs (or did run) a motorbike like you, is one of the fast and wide awake sort, if you know what I mean. And that even you have misunderstandings with your rig occasionally, really comforts me.

Widow, I pity everyone who has to learn German as a foreign language - it is much harder to learn than English. I think, an artificial language like Esperanto wasn't necessary to create. English can easily do the job very well. Someone said: German is the perfect language for setting up a contract. English is so open, it's perfect for lyrics. May well be true.

Mumbled by a drunk, German must be almost extraterrestian language. Thanks all, yes, I'll get a copy. We don't have video remtal shops anyway, that would have such an old movie. And if it's only half as good as you all say, I want to own it. I have already got "Hell's Angels", where I found the Zeppelin scenes very interesting, cause I had had no idea of how they operated.

Hey, Rickity, how did you do that picture of the Reed Chambers SPAD, that crashed into the silo? Very real looking, great work!

This is an exception, normally I post pics in "Screenshots", but I had to counter my earlier post, ranting about the Brisfit tailgunners being wizzards, who would always immediately shoot up your engine. Not so today. This time, I remained further away from him and hit him with long range bursts so often, that he began to pull a trail of thick black smoke. Also, he descended slightly. Now I pushed nose down and went closer from below. When I pulled up, he got a terible burst from 150 feet. The engine or tank exploded, and the craft rolled over it's left wings and went down badly burning. I had only received minor hits in the wings. At landing, I had marked Ritter von Greim's craft. Now I sat in my crate near my tent and waited for A-flight to land. First came my two wingmen, but the second landed on the first - crush! But Ritter von Greim, August Delling, and their two wingmen came in fine. The extra picture shows them taxiing. That was a lovely sight to watch!

Lou, Duce & Olham - the "Weisswurst Warriors" - Lol!! And I'm sure some more good people would join. Yes, if it was for the good lookin', we would definitely win.

Duce, you are more than welcome in Jasta 34b, and we'll have grilled sausages waiting. But I'm afraid we only have three Fokker Dr.1, and they where given to the "old aces". You would have to fly the D Va, like me. I'll soon upload her, so you can fly her then.

Before today, I had mostly fought SPAD XIII with the Albatros D Va, and some Nieuports. But today I had the chance to fight S.E.5a and to see, what my bird could do to them. And we did very well! When I spotted the three S.E.5a, they flew much higher than us. We climbed after them, every nerve strained - they might turn and come down any second! But we got very near, before they realised, and at turning and diving, they gave up their energy advantage. Their trick now: dive away, hoping we'd break our wings when we followed. But I stayed high and fought the leader. When I hit him the first time, the race was run. Huge bits came off, and he lost most of his performance. My third burst set his engine to fire, and he went down with a trail of dark smoke. Now I followed my three wingmen, when one British fighter came back up to fight me. In his climb, he caught a full burst, which made him turn away. Now he tried to dive again, but I shot his rudder and elevators to shreds. I followed him down, but no need to fire - he crashed. The third craft escaped through it's better speed. We had lost one craft, but all my men live to fight another day. Gee, that was intense, and big fun!

Well, they are pretty drunk already, but he says: "Whom I have brought down? Aaaahhh! That's a very big pleasure for me! That makes me very happy! You are my friend, you understand? You are my friend!" And after opening the Champagne: "Comrades! Opponents in arms! Friend! The fact, that we are enemies doen't mean, that we have to hate each other personally. Absolutely not! It's like a sport - we do our duties as soldiers, that's clear, but - but nevertheless c an we be friendly guys, who like each other! It should not keep us, at an occasion like this, from celebrating each other. Hoch! Hoch! Hoch! To the health of your wife and your family!" (Hoch! comes from "Er lebe hoch!" Difficult to translate; it's like "May he live high!" as the opposite of being low.)

Yes, that's pretty much how they might have felt, once they met eye to eye. And DAWN PATROL is definitely one of the movies I must get and see. I wonder - do they survive?

Very interesting, thank you. Yes, Jerry as slang for GERman would make the most sense to me, too.

Thank you all again - I'll see, that I get this bird ready for upload soon. If I shouldn't get the patch linking any better, I'll upload her as she is. But I'll give it one more try. Oh, and if you want to try Weisswurst without getting captured - you can perhaps get it canned in good food shops. You should also get pretzels, butter and sweet mustard. Make them hot without boiling them - otherwise they will burst. Guten Appetit!

The picture I made of me in my best white shirt with the Pour Le Merite round my neck: I knew it was a replica. I would find it very difficult to hang a real medal round my neck. There is nothing much to add from my side - I do fully understand your ways with that. A medal should stand for deeds of bravery, and that is something, especially men can honour. In our human development, women rarely ever had to fight battles or wars (although some of them did, through our whole history, and often very brave, too. There is still a statue of the early English queen and "amazone" Boadicea at the Westminster Bridge). So they may not really understand this. For me, the film "High Noon" is an example for a man's conflict between his fears, and his honour or self respect. When we see, someone overcame all his fears to do a deed of bravery, to bring an important mission to an end under impossible circumstances, or to save another comrade under great danger, then we become quiet in awe, in reverence for this person. And secretly, deep inside, we ask ourselves, if we would have also been so strong, so brave. I think, you honour those men by preserving these medals from being forgotten.

Roucourt is on a hill. Jasta 11 and 12.

What wonderful jobs some lucky people have! When I picked mine, nobody had shown me a chart with all the other ones (Lol!), some of which must be like heaven on earth. In case some one makes a DVD of it, a Non-American would appreciate a copy.

Widowmaker, these Facebook links only work for people, who registered.

Thank you all! Here is a top view of the "Bavarian Lady" for Rickitycrate. Duce, I'm based with Jasta 34 "Bayer" at Foucaucourt-en-Santerre in May 25th 1918. Our aces are flying the Fokker Dr.1, the others the Albatros D Va. This "Bayern-pattern" is an own creation, made on the basis of D Va skins by Paarma. I didn't upload it yet, as the Bayern pattern of the sides doesn't fit with the back and belly pattern parts. This is extremely tricky to get right on an Albatros, cause the back pattern seems to even get distorted on the 3D model. Also, the top wing pattern is getting shown different (in the middle) than it looks in the skin file. Very tricky. And this is "Bayerische Weisswurst" with sweet mustard, raddish, and a large Weissbier. We have that for second breakfast or as an afternoon snack. Hmm!!!

Duce: Careful, could be a Tommy plot "Give them Camels and let them die trying to fly em" That's what I thought but didn't post, cause I didn't want to offend sensibilities of our British flyers here. Give that poor pilot a Schnapps before you send him off to camp. They did more than that. In my book "Kriegstagebuch der Jagdstaffel 12", are pics, where they show their aerodrome and aircraft to the pilots they captured. They had a meal with them and sure smoked cigarrettes and drank some brandy together before the transport to the camp. I like this particular picture; I read so much in it. The British pilot (looking so typically British to me) is brought down and captured. But he stands upright and dignified, while the Germans seem almost a bit embarassed about the situation. ["Das Kriegstagebuch der Jagdstaffel 12" Michael Schmeelke ISBN 3-925 480-95-1]

Stiffy, come down, man! There ain't NO price, and the Germans do NOT always keep their medals. Read my post. I lost mine too, several times.