Olham

OvS: This is another of those debates that offers hours of great speculation... can you imagine if we could somehow simulate MvR vs Udet? That would be incredible! Well, to start it a bit cheeky: MvR only attacked, when he was sure he could win the fight. So, he wouldn't have attacked Udet. And Udet would have let him fly off. Just Theory No. 1.

Thanks! I just thought, how lucky aviation was/is, that the Germans have lost both big wars. Imagine all aviation language being German - only the Germans would want that, I suppose.

Does "dead stick landing" mean: engine off?

BH: One thing you wouldn't like about the 153s and 253s, however; they weren't as pretty as the German types. Yes, I know. But there would be the beauty of performance to compensate that. And a real fighter pilot would surely have appreciated that much before good looks.

For a German WIKIPEDIA Article, I would like to use very good screenshots of aircraft, single or flying in formation or dogfighting. If you at OFF OBD have some good ones with your logo in, please post them or PM them to me. Everyone else: please use only sim skins and a variety of craft. I don't have the best graphics yet, so I ask you for help here. Whoever wants to contribute some, please follow some rules: 1. You should have most advanced graphics. Use highest resolution for the aircraft in workshop, please. An exception would be shots made to demonstrate damage - here the next lower setting for aircraft is necessary. 2. Pick an interesting wheather - that can be chosen in "workshop QC's". I want some really nice and sunny wheather as well as huge, dramatic thunderheads, but rather no rainy wash kitchen looks. 3. Pick some really interesting German skins for your German craft. 4. Do the dogfighting like a movie director. Manoeuver your craft to good angles in relationship to the sun and the other craft. Use the "pause" key and wander around the frozen scene, to get the best angle; zoom in and out to get it right. Also view scenes or single craft from above - sometimes a good angle. Turn and move around a scene in thunder wheather so, that you may catch some reflection on the surfaces; that will give it an extra touch. And after all that work, you should still be prepared, that your picmight not be used, although it is good - I can't plaster Wikipedia with screenshots, and will have to pick some 3 - 6 pictures, to show the variety of types and skins. Thank you for reading and for any screenshots.

Would you believe it? This craft was landed safely, although burning already. This Albatros D.III (153.45) was hit by enemy fighters and caught fire. But the pilot, the Austrian ace Brumowski, could still land it safely. (Well, I assume, a good deal of the canvas burnt away after landing, but still!)

Zoomzoom, I saw you found out now? So just post them here, I'd say - I'll see them.

The Aviatik is a very bulky craft. On the lowest pic, it sais, the pilot had messed with the wings? As an Austrian ace, I would have had an even far better Albatros. Did they really not fly the western front at all? Not even in the south? Bullet? Cause if they did, I could perhaps get an OeFFAG Albatros out of Pol...

I think it's not putting MvR down to say, that Udet survived the war. This is great footage, and has been posted several times here. Did anyone notice, he collects a towel from ground with a hook fit to the lower wing. in the first scene? A German actress, who knew him, said: Oh, Ernst, he is a very lucky hot rock - he should have been dead a hundred times.

WM: I'm afraid there are way too many Allied Aircraft being shot down in the Screenshot thread!..I shall need to address this balance shortly!! Might be a problem, as long as I'm posting my sorties. (Oops - I drank from the same glas as René Fonck. Hope it won't be too bad?) Bullethead, better beware! Don't run into my flight one day - I train my men on Fees!

Boys, from all I have learnt about OFF and the devs, I dare to assume, that they won't stop, until they have the aircombat of WW1 complete. What they do first and what they do later, remains their secret, but I'm sure, they'll do it all! So we will sooner or later get Morane Parasol, more two-seaters, all Nupe variants, all Fokkers and Rolands, Siemens-Schuckert and Pfalz D XII, maybe even the early Taube. But only they know when. As for me: I have the patience to wait for the planes to come.

BB, no need to advertise Corel Draw to me - I work a lot with it myself, and I think, it's the easiest to use and most intuitive design program. I also know some Adobe programs, but use mainly Photoshop only, and Indysign for layouts. For skins, I work only in Photoshop - it can generate any desired effect I want. But Corel Photo Paint may do all quite similar things, too? A pity, if it's not so easy/ intuitive to use. But Photoshop is also a lot to learn.

Better not, RAS - my ratio with Tripes is about 15 - 1. That means, they shoot me down once , when I downed fifteen of them. And I wouldn't want to ruin Widow's beautiful skin (Lol!)

Iti, you press the "print" key (top right on keyboard somewhere), then you change to Photoshop or any other picture program, click "new file" (you'll get a blank one in the size of your screen resolution now), and press Ctrl. + V (insert). apraiserfl, the first pilot lost is the worst perhaps. You'll have many more, and after some time you realise, you are getting better and better. I don't have you in the OFF Pilots map yet. Would you tell me your town and country/state, please? Thanks!

But we are whittling away at it. Just takes time. Incredible team! That must really be a huge amount of dates. And I absolutely agree about the historical death of the aces, and no other way.

Not sure about the "overrides", but in Workshop, you can say "static wheather" or so. And then, perhaps you can choose some sunshine or whatever you like in QC? Don't know though, if the "static wheather" can be chosen.

Duce, if you can get older versions of Photoshop cheaper, you can take and use them. They should all do the job fine. BB, your method may be as good, when you can work with structures and grain there? What I do most, is to copy parts/selections which may be useful for changing, and paste them into a new layer, where I adjust/vary their colouring. Rather easy, but effective.

Wow - an epic battle scene! I downloaded it, thanks a lot!

Wow - an all American Tripe! Ras, are you an early WW1 marine now? Looks good and pretty authentic - they would have liked to fly this Tripe.

Since I have two D III OAW pilots, two D V pilots and one D Va pilot right now, I know what you mean: the D III is just more agile, lighter. I have been in the Elsass / Alsace with an Albatros D II Jasta, forgot which one. It is very beautiful there, but dogfighting in the gorges can be a real challenge. I remember fighting a Nupe, shooting her down, and then: mountain faces left and right and in front of me! I did an incredible climb, that would have turned into a mountain ride, if my wheels would have gone two feet lower - I just made it. For a man from the marshes, it was quite some experience!

A pro for the book is: it won't get emptier and emptier.

Austrian Albatros D.IIIs were superior to not only to their German originals but also their 1918 opponents. Yes, that was the terrible lower wing problem, that the Austrian engineers solved by building it with two holms/spars instead of only one. Army decisions are often rather political or some money-makers' decisions. In this case, I think it was so, that the wings had been made in a larger amount already, when the first news came in, that some had broken. They said, they didn't have the time to change the wings again, the fighter was urgently needed. OeFFAG must have decided early on, when they got the blueprints, that they would change the wing. Correct me, if I'm wrong. It's a shame to see, how much better the German Albatros could have been. It could have been used until the end of the war, perhaps. Does anyone know, whether the Albatros OAW had a stronger wing? Cause that one was used longer.

So you found it out. Isn't it crazy, what they all built in those days?

Hey! Camelj... - arhm - Leutnant Feuervogel! Nice to see you back! Have been pretty busy holdink ze crumpets at bay, but now, viss zee assistance of you and your impressive triplane, we should be able to make crumpet-crumbs of zem. Mmmuahahahahaaaa!!!

Yer right, Stiffy, I wasn't thinking - a torpedo couldn't be dropped through the prop!